Lesson 3 - Downloading Racing Programs and Results Charts from the Internet

Chapter 3: Downloading Racing Programs and Results Charts from the Internet

For most PC users, QuickDog will automatically download both historical race programs/charts and current (yesterday, today, and tomorrow's programs/charts). If the techniques explained below do not work for you, please make sure of two things before writing to us:

1) You have Internet Explorer 6.0 or 7.0 on your computer.

2) You've read below, and followed the directions for downloading your data using QuickDog.

Note that some tracks do NOT provide data FREE ONLINE in a TEXT or HTML format but QuickDog can handicap those tracks. If you want to handicap those tracks, a company called ROSNET wants you to PAY for that data. If you do decide to pay for ROSNET data and want to use QuickDog, please contact QuickReckoning and we will work with you regarding pay data and how you can get QuickDog to Handicap that data. Contact Mike at mikeg@quickreckoning.com

Unlike any other handicapping program, downloading data with QuickDog will is totally automatic.

Learning QuickDog Step by Step Menu

To download your data automatically, start QuickDog, and, after selecting the "I AGREE" button on the license/subscription page, you will see our "Learning QuickDog Step by Step" display.

Step 2 allows you to go through a series of prompts which will download history for your tracks(s).

Step 3 will walk you through a procedure for automatically downloading YESTERDAY, TODAY, and TOMORROW'S programs and charts.

All history data will be available, and most current track data will also be available to you, however, if your track is managed by ROSNET that data is available only by paid monthly subscription (QuickDog will tell you this when you choose your tracks).

Once you've used Steps 2 and 3 on the Step by Step display, and begin handicapping, you can also find the HISTORY and "Today's Program" downloading features on the Menu Bar with you select the DOWNLOAD menu bar item.

A good practice in using QuickDog is to use Step 3 each day, before going into QuickDog any further, and, if you miss a day, then you can use Step 2 to get the data you missed. QuickDog history includes past data up to and including the day before yesterday. Step 3 allows you to download up to 7 days back, TODAY, and TOMORROW's data. Therefore, you should have what you need to handicap. The history includes up to 1 year of data for each track we cover.