Dated: June 25, 2001 Version: 1.0
The Post Time Daily Comma Delimited Chart consists of three different
record types (race, horse, and exotic) which together comprise a chart
of racing information. These record types are provided in ONE file.
The first field of each line provides a record_type indicator which
indicates which record type the particular line corresponds to.
All Char fields, whether 1 char or more will be quoted fields. Embedded
quotes will be converted to % symbols in the exported field. The size
of char fields does NOT include the quotation marks.
The size of number fields represents the maximum size in characters we
expect to use for a particular field. Payoff fields, fractional times,
and beaten lengths will always contain two decimal digPost Time Daily
after the decimal point.
The cards will consist of the live thoroughbred races run at a given
track on a particular day. If a race is canceled, there will be no
horse or exotic records. The canceled_flag will be set to 1.
The horse records (for a given race) are currently in official_position
order and are followed by all the horses who were scratched. No
particular order, however, should be assumed. This order could change
at some point in the future.
The file naming conventions for each card are as follows:
YYYYMMDD_CHT_DAY_TTT.TXT
YYYYMMDD is the year month and day concatenated together.
DAY will be either DAY or EVE depending on whether the card is a day or
evening card. An evening card only occurs if a track runs two different
cards of racing on the SAME day. If a track runs only one card of
racing, and the racing happens to be in the evening, it will still have
a DAY designation.
TTT represents the track three letter track code. If the track code is
only two letters, the remaining position will contain an underscore.
As an example, June 21, 2001 at MTH will have a file name of
20010621_CHT_DAY_MTH.TXTilto:developersupport@posttimedaily.com
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