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International Fed of Horseracing Authorities 'Blue Book'
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Author:  Mtoto [ Fri Oct 04, 2019 9:01 pm ]
Post subject:  International Fed of Horseracing Authorities 'Blue Book'
Hi all

I've started working on a schedule of my own and wanted to find a definitive guide to international races as some of the resources available from individual countries are beyond crap. Attached is a spreadsheet derived from the IFHA 'Blue Book' (also attached as pdf) for 2019. I've included and XML based currency converter that renders the local purses into GBP so don't alter any of the formulas or the XML source and you're all good. I've split out the current sponsors from the registered race names and where possible previous/alternatives for the current name. Not a mod technically but thought I'd post it as a reference source for modders. The .pdf and their ancient oracle db are both public domain so knock yourself out.

Hope it helps

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1G1cYf ... FbkzGCy5qG

https://drive.google.com/open?id=15HQo4 ... FydIJrxaXC
Author:  twilightramblings [ Sun Oct 06, 2019 3:18 am ]
Post subject:  Re: International Fed of Horseracing Authorities 'Blue Book'
Don't know if you have them but here's the Australian races: https://www.racingaustralia.horse/arb/Group_ListedRaceDates/2019-2020.aspx

PDF Warning - Here's the Japan Race Guidebook for 2019: http://japanracing.jp/_pdf/information/jra-graded-races/jra-graded-races-2019.pdf

New Zealand Flat and Jumps racing for 18-19: https://loveracing.nz/OnHorseFiles/Downloads/2018-19%20GL%20RACES.PDF

ETA: Just looked at the attached and there's no dates in that info, so the extra links will help if anyone wants dates to approximate it out.

Here's the Blood Horse Reports page, which has conditions books, which have dates, conditions, and prize money for the USA, JRA and major UK races, including highlight races that are part of the Breeders' Cup Challenge Series: https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/reports. Wikipedia is also a good source on series information, such as "The Road to the Kentucky Derby/Kentucky Oaks", the British Challenge series, Breeders' Cup Challenge Series, etc. Most races have info like whether there's a fixed field size etc.

Also, be careful with the currencies - I just converted all my international races to AUD and put them in an AUS schedule, and they've come out converted from that amount. All of the Australian races are still the correct amount. I think the currency is whatever your schedule is set in and it converts international races using an internal (and not visible) exchange rate. If I figure out a pattern in the conversions in my schedule, I'll add it to this post.
Author:  Mtoto [ Fri Oct 11, 2019 5:57 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: International Fed of Horseracing Authorities 'Blue Book'
Nice one cheers for that. Handy tool for converting the pdfs to excel at https://www.pdftoexcel.com/ it's what I used to convert the blue book. Unfortunately they don't publish the dates in it but they do have a searchable database that does and it copies well into excel or notebook.
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