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sa7med
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Anyone have a list of racecourses in UK and IRE with betfair abbreviations?
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Dallas
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Here you go

Aint
Asco
Ayr
Ball
Bang
Bath
Bev
Brig
Carl
Cart
Catt
Chel
Chelm
Chep
Ches
Cork
Curr
Donc
Down
Dund
Epsm
Extr
Fair
Fake
Ffos
Font
Gal
Good
GowP
Ham
Hayd
Here
Hex
Hunt
Kels
Kemp
Kilb
Leic
Leop
Lim
Lim
Ling
List
Ludl
Mrkt
Muss
Naas
Nava
Newb
Newc
Newm
Newt
Nott
Pert
Plum
Pont
Punc
Redc
Ripo
Rosc
Sali
Sand
Sedg
Sthl
Stra
Taun
Thir
Thur
Tipp
Towc
Utto
Warw
Weth
Winc
Wind
Wolv
Worc
Yarm
York
sa7med
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Much appreciated Dallas!
StellaBot
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Maybe as a suggestion also
as different course - circuits

chelo Cheltenham Old Course

cheln Cheltenham New Course

newmr Newmarket Rowley

newmj Newmarket July
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bennyboy351
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Dallas wrote:
Sun Nov 11, 2018 4:05 pm
Here you go

Aint
Asco
Ayr
Ball
Bang
Bath
Bev
Brig
Carl
Cart
Catt
Chel
Chelm
Chep
Ches
Cork
Curr
Donc
Down
Dund
Epsm
Extr
Fair
Fake
Ffos
Font
Gal
Good
GowP
Ham
Hayd
Here
Hex
Hunt
Kels
Kemp
Kilb
Leic
Leop
Lim
Lim
Ling
List
Ludl
Mrkt
Muss
Naas
Nava
Newb
Newc
Newm
Newt
Nott
Pert
Plum
Pont
Punc
Redc
Ripo
Rosc
Sali
Sand
Sedg
Sthl
Stra
Taun
Thir
Thur
Tipp
Towc
Utto
Warw
Weth
Winc
Wind
Wolv
Worc
Yarm
York
Are the 2 LIM's a typo? :-)
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Dallas
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Yes, I copied it from a spreadsheet and thought I'd removed all duplicates
nigelk
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There are a couple of tracks were racing used to take place under both codes, flat & NH, but now do only the one (remember the all weather jumps?), that's why some are shown twice.

Anyway, attached file found somewhere years ago that lists all the tracks and the abbreviations as used by Betfair
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StellaBot
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Lina
Lin
Linh
linc

as a thought
as same venue , diff course route ie all weather, turf, hurdles, chase
hope that helps

EDIT
Dunno betfair use. But should do if not
CallumPerry
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Nigelk the spreadsheet you have kindly shared is absolutely perfect for what I need, thank you very much!

Can I just ask, is there a certain structure BetFair use in the string in cell A1 on the spreadsheets? I think Euler posted a formula that broke this string into a bunch of useful derivatives before. How do other traders recommend I break my back data up when analysing?

Being very cautious of overfitting my data and worrying about confirmation bias, so far I've thought of:
Course name, Type of race, time of day, day of the week, whether it is a 'strong favourite' or one of two favs or one of three etc using my own formulae. Anything else that would be noteworthy?

TIA
nigelk
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Class of race might be useful as well.
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That is all perfectly ready for me in that workbook as well, thank you again!
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johnsheppard
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Hello there,

Hope it's ok to add to the of this old post. Nigel's spreadsheet is pretty helpful!

Attached is an excel sheet, which I have converted it into a single table for adding it to a database if anyone is into that jazz... There are still omissions, for example Hong Kong, etc... I also have no idea if any of these have changed since.... anyway, hope it's useful for someone...thanks Nigel!

A sticky thread with spreadsheet/data info like this would be groovy to have. I wonder where Nigel got his list from, or if its the result of many hours hard administrative labour...

Thank you all.
Have a nice day.
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CallumPerry wrote:
Sat Feb 23, 2019 5:43 pm
Nigelk the spreadsheet you have kindly shared is absolutely perfect for what I need, thank you very much!
TIA
Note that (for Aus at least) Nigel's spreadsheet doesn't differentiate gallops from harness.

I have an Aus/NZ list with just gallops if anyone wants.
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CallumPerry wrote:
Sat Feb 23, 2019 5:43 pm
Anything else that would be noteworthy?

TIA
Weather and track condition would be useful, but I haven't found an easy/simple way to do that (for Aus)
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CallumPerry wrote:
Sat Feb 23, 2019 5:43 pm
Being very cautious of overfitting my data and worrying about confirmation bias, so far I've thought of:
Course name, Type of race, time of day, day of the week...
Callum, just curious but do you feel time and day are factors? I have often seen a bias for one or both but because I can't see a reason why and like you I want to avoid 'fitting' I have put it down to statistical anomalies. I will have to explore a bit deeper perhaps. :)
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