I received the email below from Ron Tiller at HDW yesterday - which I posted
at my own site.
I thought it might be a good idea to also post it here at Paceadvantage in the interest of giving players (no matter whose data they might be using) a heads up:
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"A horse named "Man of Chrome" with 2 spaces before Chrome has been in
the Jockey Club Registry and the Equibase data since being registered.
This was an error. It should have had 1 space. "Man of Chrome" with 1
space is the correct name and the name currently in the Equibase (and
hence HDW) database and Jockey Club registry. Somehow that horse has
existed in the official jockey club registry with 2 spaces for as long
as the horse has been registered. It was changed to "Man of Chrome" with
1 space on July 13th, after the final data file had gone out from
Equibase for the race on July 15th.
Thus, "Man of Chrome" with 2 spaces was in the racefile for July 15th.
From that point forward, "Man of Chrome" with 1 space is the official
name and will appear that way in all future data files should the horse
run again.
I spoke with somebody at Equibase and this is the first time either she
or I can remember something weird like this happening - i.e. 2 spaces
errantly entered into the horse name instead of 1. Because I assume
customers storing the PPs are using the horse name as part of the primary
key, this is really tantamount to a name change.
I just thought I would give you a heads up in case you are accumulating
horse PPs in a permanent database.
Ron"
I suggest you read the above email carefully -- especially if you are managing your own independent data project.
-jp
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