i actually rang to confirm the data after spending at least half an hour on the phone and going through numerous examples he said to me the $$$ settings and the distance columns were interpreting the wrong data nothing more nothing less he stated that the $$$ column was to identify the 1st down to the last horse in the order of the prizemoney won then too put that figure as a rating so the highest ranked api will always be the horse with the highest rating same as the days criteria horses racing in around the 7 days will always get 20 points down to horses resuming from a spell will get a rating of 1-2 etc no great mystery really maybe you could give him a call to confirm that they are working on these two columns only as again i state they are interpreting the wrong read his words exactly to me on thursday
cheers
garyf