Equibase Gets It Right:
http://www.paulickreport.com/blog/eq...gets-it-right/
Visit the Scratches Today page at Equibase.com. You'll generally find almost all of the scratches and changes propagating out onto the Equibase site in something pretty close to real time throughout the day.
http://www.equibase.com/static/latec...techanges.html
Be aware that early scratches and changes are being keyed into the system at the track level... except for NYRA which so far is the only racing association refusing to participate in this free service for players from Equibase... Also be aware that all subsequent changes are being keyed in by Equibase chart callers as they are announced over the PA system throughout the day.
The goal when this system was created was one source on the web where players could go to get accurate timely changes info. So far, with very few kinks - the system has been just that.
If you want to automate the process, consider parsing scratches and changes directly from the XML Feed.
-jp
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