Addington Raceway’s newest initiative, Stridemaster, is providing punters, owners and trainers with more statistical information than has ever been made able to them before.
The tracking system, which was designed to specifically measure a horse’s performance through GPS tracking and precision sensor data.
The system has been in place for almost a month now and after a few early teething problems, things are now fully operational with up to date data released both during and after race meetings for each horse that steps onto the Addington surface.
Sorted out over 200 metre intervals, the system provides timing, positional data and horse performance data for each horse through the use of a recording device located on the saddlecloth.
That data is fed back to the central system before the results are compiled and made available for public consumption.
What the system does is gives people access to data that has never been truly available to them before, other than through their own time-keeping methods.
They can now analyse each horse’s performance and see exactly how their race breaks down.
This should, in theory, give punters an inside edge with the data showing, quite clearly, the horses who have run the fastest sectionals in the race which is ideal when searching for a horse who might not have been in the top half a dozen, but has made up a lot of ground.
There have been some mixed reviews around the country for the system, but the majority have seemed to find its services more than useful.
All results from each night of racing are posted on the Addington Raceway website with full access to all data made available for free to anyone who wishes to access it.
Matt Markham