Horse names and numbers?

[slochin]

Hello,
I was wondering if someone experienced with Aus racing and Excel could inform me if it is necessary to have both the horses number and name as it appears in the A column when trying to match horses?
For example
Menagle Harness in Excel ColA has

1. Zesitall

Whereas UK horse racing Lingfield has in ColA only the horses name.

Sporting Times

Why I ask this is I see UK races only have the names of the horses placed in col A in Excel and I have been working these ok. So does Betfair recognise Aus horse names only?

[alrodopial]

what do you mean "when trying to match horses?"

ba appears horse names and their numbers by default
If I remember correctly someone asked for it (a long time ago)

[alrodopial]

missed it
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in aus races

[slochin]

It looks like noone can assist further with this query re Australian horse racing.It's a shame this forum is not very active.I suppose because it is such a great product purchasers are busy running their programs.

[Captain Sensible]

Hello,
I was wondering if someone experienced with Aus racing and Excel could inform me if it is necessary to have both the horses number and name as it appears in the A column when trying to match horses?

I'd guess the data output is coming direct from the Betfair API feed so for whatever reason Betfair combine the race number and runner name at source, maybe that's just the standard way of displaying runners in Australia. So if you want to match runner you'll either need to add the runner number to the name or just strip it out before you check for a match. Stripping it out is easy enough as the data is always in a regular format. Just look at routines like split if you're using VBA or things like RIGHT and FIND if just usng formulas i.e. =TRIM(RIGHT( A1, LEN( A1 ) - FIND( ".", A1 ) ))

[Shaun]

Any help in regards to Aussie racing you are more than welcome to in box me but i am not as active here as i used to be.