chuckg.
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Partsnut,
That would be the key to the kingdom right there. Having your software change the adjusted SR for each horse according to the lead horse in todays race would show you how each horse might run against todays pacesetter instead of against the last pace it had to face.
How to write a program that can do that...?
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Chuck, no need to write a program for that.
There are a couple of versions of the Taulbot Pace Calculator that will
do just that. The one that is manual input is AmerVar and is the one that I use which is an old DOS version. It will figure variants for any specific race and the user can manually adjust the speed rating to the variant. The speed ratings come directly from the Daily racing Form and can be manually adjusted with the SSR (Sartin Speed Rating) prescribed method.
The Mechanical version (Plastic Slide Rule) will also do this. The cost is about $45.00 and I believe it is still available. Then there is also a windows version that will work on operating systems that do not exceed Windows XP. I don't believe there's too much flexibility with the Windows version.