This just in from Handicapper's Daily (ITS)

[kingfin66]

This is not intended to be me posting free advertising for Pizzolla's company, it is only to alert people to the change. I assume most of the people here at PA are fairly locked in to what they use.
In case those of you who use ITS files/products haven't heard:

Post Time Solutions, Inc., is an officially authorized value-added reseller of Equibase Company LLC. Post Time Solutions, Inc. has become aware that due to various circumstances over the past year, ITS, Inc., former publishers of the Handicapper’s Daily, will no longer be able to continue operations after May 31, 2005.

Post Time Solutions, Inc. has arranged to serve all of your handicapping needs.

If you would like to continue getting the best past performances anywhere, and files compatible with your handicapping software, please click below to be taken to the Post Time Daily website.

And don’t forget to bookmark the page in your web browser when you get there.

....and....
What Is Post Time Solutions, Inc.?

Post Time Solutions, Inc. is an officially authorized value-added reseller of Equibase Company LLC. Post Time Solutions, Inc. has become aware that ITS, Inc., former publishers of the Handicapper’s Daily past performances, has been forced to cease operations after May 31, 2005.

Can I continue getting my past performances and software?

Absolutely yes! If you’d like to continue getting the best past performances and software anywhere, Post Time Solutions has your solution. Post Time Solutions, Inc. has arranged through licensing agreements and its position as one of the nation’s few officially authorized value-added resellers of Equibase Company LLC, to serve all of your handicapping needs.



Where does Post Time Solutions, Inc. get its information?

ALL POST TIME DAILY PAST PERFORMANCE INFORMATION IS PROVIDED BY EQUIBASE COMPANY LLC, THE THOROUGHBRED INDUSTRY’S OFFICIAL DATABASE OF RACING INFORMATION, so you can be assured of the best and most accurate thoroughbred information and statistics anywhere.

Can I continue to use my software?

Yes, the Post Time Daily files are compatible with your Handicapper’s Daily software. So don’t worry—the new Post Time Daily files will work with your existing Handicapper’s Daily software.

HOWEVER, THERE IS A NEW FREE SOFTWARE PROGRAM CALLED POST TIME DAILY™ that you can download right now. This software will work with the new Post Time Daily files and your old Handicapper’s Daily files.

You are encouraged to download this new FREE software at your earliest convenience and use it for your past performances. And be sure to stay tuned for exciting new innovations to the Post Time Daily™ software coming soon.

ALL POST TIME DAILY EXPORTED FILES ARE COMPLETELY COMPATIBLE WITH YOUR HANDICAPPING MAGICIAN, MASTER MAGICIAN, VALUE TECH, AND ALL OTHER SOFTWARE PROGRAMS THAT WERE COMPATIBLE WITH HANDICAPPER’S DAILY FILES.

Do I have to do anything differently to get my files?

NO! Post Time Solutions, Inc., will be providing the files and software for your online past performances in an easy-to-use manner using the same methods that you have been using. There has been no change in pricing.

Do I need a new account?

NO! If you have an existing Handicapper’s Daily account, you can instantly get your past performance files from the posttimedaily.com website. YOUR USERID AND PASSWORD WILL REMAIN THE SAME. THERE IS NO NEED TO MAKE ANY CHANGES IN YOUR CURRENT ACCOUNT.

All credit card customers may continue to use their current account, and your monthly charges will appear on your credit card statement as Post Time Solutions, Inc. Post Time Solutions, Inc. will honor all non-credit card customers’ remaining balances as of June 1, 2005, and will apply those balances to their downloading of POST TIME DAILY files.


Who is going to run Post Time Solutions?

Michael Pizzolla, former President of ITS, Inc. has resigned from his position at ITS.

Post Time Solutions, Inc. is pleased to announce that Mr. Pizzolla has agreed to accept the position of President and CEO of Post Time Solutions, Inc.

Michael Pizzolla is a nationally recognized thoroughbred handicapping expert and best selling author. His best-selling book, Handicapping Magic, has been hailed as one of the most important works on thoroughbred handicapping. He is the creator and designer of the Handicapping Magic family of products, including The Handicapping Magician, The Master Magician, Value Tech, and a host of other cutting-edge handicapping techniques.

Since 1984, Mr. Pizzolla has been one of the pioneers in the field of computer-assisted thoroughbred handicapping, and is credited as the designer and driving force behind the first full-featured on-line past performance. In 1994, Mr. Pizzolla negotiated an agreement with Daily Racing Form to bring the Daily Racing Form to the public via electronic media.

When Daily Racing Form changed ownership in 1999, Mr. Pizzolla arranged an agreement with Equibase Company, LLC to provide data to continue serving the best electronic past performances.

For the past 6 years, Mr. Pizzolla has been the driving force behind the industry’s best online past performances.

Post Time Solutions is extremely proud to have secured Mr. Pizzolla’s services and looks forward to a period of great innovation and growth under his leadership. What that means for you, the handicapper, is better service, better products, and access to his handicapping acumen, presented in his inimitable style.

WELCOME!

[NoDayJob]

Posttime Solutions Inc. @:

http://www.posttimedaily.com/

NDJ

[PaceAdvantage]

Sounds like a whole lot of nuttin' to me. Same logo, same products, same basic layout, same Pizzolla.

If I didn't know any better, I'd say this "window dressing" has come about due to some legal wrangling that ensued after the death of Mr. Eric Langjahr.

But like I said, I really don't know any better...and this is just an edumacated guess.

[NoDayJob]

PA,

Agree---

NDJ

[andicap]

Check out the site -- everywhere they have a word with an "its" anywhere in it, the computer program substituted "PostTime Daily."

example.hypothetically,..instead of the word "splits," they would have "splPostTime Daily"

I guess they did a find/replace on ITS without realizing it would change EVERY word with an "its" in there....

:lol: :lol:

Looks like it was a real quick job....

Someone should tell Pizzolla to take down the outdated links already as well.

And did ANY of his Breeder Cup longshots do anything. (First time he noticed he wrote something last October).

[garyoz]

Personally I wish them success. The more competition in this space and the greater the number of data suppliers the better. Remember the old Daily Racing Form monopoly and how crummy the print DRF was until The Racing Times and Equibase started competing? Walter Annenberg made a fortune off of owing the DRF for decades. The operating cash flow margin used to be more than 30%--almost as bad as the Yellow Pages.

[NoDayJob]

I just talked to Doug Manley at Posttime Solutions. Basically, The only difference is a change of name and a software update. I have checked the files both new and old. They work with my programs, so there shouldn't be any difficulties if your software uses ITS/PTS files. :lol: Oh yeah, I forgot the ITS/split "change all". Yup, down and dirty programming. :lol:

NDJ

[cj]

They never heard of Match Case and Whole Word Only? :lol:

[Tom]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Remember StevenWright, the comic?
He once deapaned, "Aliens stole all of my possesions and replaced them with exact duplicates!

[kingfin66]

The ITS web page was never much to write home about anyway. They could use a serious makeover by a good web designer. I had no problem with the download either.

I agree with PA, this is undoubtedly related to the death of Eric and the legal wrangling with his family.

[John]

Yeah PA you are right. But, If Magic ran off BRIS or TSN files we could all gain.

andicap:
No..... fulcrum did not pick Scrappy T. neither did I.

[turfbar]

MPH picked Scappy T right on top

[Brian Flewwelling]

Personally I wish them success. The more competition in this space and the greater the number of data suppliers the better. Remember the old Daily Racing Form monopoly and how crummy the print DRF was until The Racing Times and Equibase started competing? Walter Annenberg made a fortune off of owing the DRF for decades. The operating cash flow margin used to be more than 30%--almost as bad as the Yellow Pages.

There is no more competition... just a change of name for one firm.

AND they are supplied by Equibase, the EXCLUSIVE supplier of data. Equibase decides on who can have data and how they pass it on.

Fleww

[garyoz]

Equibase doesn't tell Bris, ITS, DRF or HDW how to package or price the data. I would predict that if the HM or any of the other Pizzola products were supported by BRIS (or TSN--the samething) they wouldn't use the cheap files. Too many people want to get paid. Even Multicaps uses more expensive files. TSN is a discount brand developed by BRIS to counter no-frills competition or prevent entry in that product space. BRIS and DRF have both provided free information (results, scratches, entries) due to competition. Do you seriously think products would be cheaper with fewer providers. It is called Econ 101.

[Dan Montilion]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Remember StevenWright, the comic?
He once deapaned, "Aliens stole all of my possesions and replaced them with exact duplicates!

Steven Wright is funny as hell. He also came with this "I lost a $50 bill, so I made a reward sign. It said. Lost $50 bill, if found just keep it"

Dan Montilion

[Vegas711]

Just checked out I.T.S their comma delim charts end on 5-31 are they just slow or is this the end of the charts?.

[midnight]

I never used any ITS products except Danny Serra's excellent sire ratings (which I use religiously on certain tracks when they're wet-fast or sloppy), so it won't make much difference to me. I never saw a reason to pay $1.50 per race file when I could get as good or better data unlimited for $69-120 per month.

[Kreed]

man, sorry to hear you were scammed. happy to say i gave his book, handicapping magic gratis to a PA member. everytime i opened that book
i started to tremble like a thief in the night. The Gods deliver justice to
guys like him.

[Buckeye]

If Pizzolla is anything more than a con-man psycho-babbler, he will prove me wrong. But since he's already had 4 years to do that, I tend to doubt he will. Like I said before about THM, TMH, and to a lesser extent, TEH, I'm keeping them all, as a reminder of what not to do.

[Suff]

PA likes him...and he's there? He's been generous to PA members with his work.

I'm sorry to hear about the circumstances surrounding this enterprise.

I'm afraid its far to common than uncommon.

We had a supermarket chain around here called Demoulas. Two Brothers. One died, the other beat his Sister-in-Law and Nephews and Niece's out 100's of Millions. Not Millions.. 100's of millions. His brother died, he felt entitled to reap the rewards of a sole-proprieter..so he simply "took" what he thought was his. The Feds made him give 1.5 Billion back... But it showed me a very important lesson. The Zero's don't matter... when money is involved People get wierd.+

[PaceAdvantage]

For obvious reasons, the post about ITS and Langjahr has been removed. Stuff like that does NOT belong in a public forum....sorry....

[NoDayJob]

Just checked out I.T.S their comma delim charts end on 5-31 are they just slow or is this the end of the charts?.

"Notice to our valued customers:
We are sorry for the inconvenience, but due to a change in the data feed, the Comma Delimited Chart Files for June are not available yet. We are working on this and hope to have them back up shortly. Thank you so much for your patience."

NDJ

[NoDayJob]

:D Nah, just protecting his butt from litigious people. :D

NDJ

[sevenall]

Kreed...

Who got scammed??

:confused:

[Kreed]

wisen up. we are adults here so don't try cute remarks. I know who wears the
horror mask. leech, vampire as he appears to me. to some guys truth don't
concern them; to me, its the ONLY issue.

[kingfin66]

No, not censorship. This is a privately owned website. The owner can be sued over stuff like libel, copyright infringement, etc..

[sevenall]

So Kreed,

No cute remarks here. Your post said "man sorry to hear you were scammed"....couldn't tell what post you were responding to.

If there's something that you know about the partnership between Eric L. and Michael P. that would shed some light on the truth.....I'd be interested in hearing it.

Otherwise, you're just someone espousing your opinion as the "truth"....

[kingfin66]

There was a long cut and paste post that got deleted by PA. It was a long diatribe from Eric's sister alleging that Michael Pizzolla stole money. I believe that Derek was responding to that post when it was still in the thread. Rferguson posted the link to the same info that was deleted.

[Kreed]

I bring a spiritual message to this post by virtue that I'm a Very
Spiritual guy. YES, ITS ONLY MY OPINION --- YES, thats why
we evolved with brains -- to form opinions from data & accept impressions.
that guy creeps me. THINK, what could he possibly know that YOU don't?
its like those HongKong math guys --- they know ZERO ---although I must
admit that HK is wonderful for 2 weeks, then, GET ME THE F outta there.
its all illusions. the guy takes a photo wearing a black suit; anti feng sui !!
and with his back facing the sun. I mean, how disrepectful can One Be?

[NoDayJob]

I bring a spiritual message to this post by virtue that I'm a Very
Spiritual guy. YES, ITS ONLY MY OPINION --- YES, thats why
we evolved with brains -- to form opinions from data & accept impressions.
that guy creeps me. THINK, what could he possibly know that YOU don't?
its like those HongKong math guys --- they know ZERO ---although I must
admit that HK is wonderful for 2 weeks, then, GET ME THE F outta there.
its all illusions. the guy takes a photo wearing a black suit; anti feng sui !!
and with his back facing the sun. I mean, how disrepectful can One Be?


:lol: Yeah, but can you bring $30,000,000 to $50,000,000 to the table? Benter surely can.

NDJ aka Feng Shui Master :lol:

[kingfin66]

I bring a spiritual message to this post by virtue that I'm a Very
Spiritual guy. YES, ITS ONLY MY OPINION --- YES, thats why
we evolved with brains -- to form opinions from data & accept impressions.
that guy creeps me. THINK, what could he possibly know that YOU don't?
its like those HongKong math guys --- they know ZERO ---although I must
admit that HK is wonderful for 2 weeks, then, GET ME THE F outta there.
its all illusions. the guy takes a photo wearing a black suit; anti feng sui !!
and with his back facing the sun. I mean, how disrepectful can One Be?

I have to admit, you lost me here Derek...lol, but it was still pretty funny. Yeah, black suit with back to the sun. Whassup with that? Who are we talking about again?