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Old 1st August 2015, 04:15 PM
blackdog1 blackdog1 is offline
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Originally Posted by jazzy
Matching Jockey names from different sources is a ************ nightmare.


I finished up with multiple fields for trainers and jocks in my database; title, first, second and surname plus initials where only available.
Even if you get your info from the same source all the time the names still can come in different format.
These days I can recall a good jock trainer from memory, not so easy if you use a bot.
We standardized railway tracks, mostly anyway, so it will only be another 100 years before we sort this out.
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