My HorseRaces - historical databases in My HorseRaces 2.8

My HorseRaces®

Historical Databases in My HorseRaces 2.9

My HorseRaces comes with many historical databases. They are Microsoft© Access databases and may be interrogated using My HorseRaces itself or using Microsoft© Access software.

What are the historical databases?

The historical databases that come with My HorseRaces 2.9 contain East Australian races from the following years. Except for one database, the races in the databases are almost all run on Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane metropolitan racecourses. The links here take you to a description of the contents of each database and past performance of groups of races in each database for particular analytical settings of My HorseRaces.

2004 '2004 horse races'
2005 '2005 horse races'
'2008 country races'
2008 '2008 horse races'
2009 '2009 horse races'
2014/15 '2015 horse races'
2017 '2017 horse races'
2018/19/20 '2018 horse races'
2020/21 '2021 horse races'

In addition, there is a database that was created by merging the 2008 (metropolitan) and 2009 databases using My HorseRaces database manipulation facility.

Where will the databases be stored on my computer?

If analysing the databases using My HorseRaces it is not necessary to know where the databases are stored on your computer.

However, if you wish to interrogate the databases directly using Microsoft© Access, the file path to, say, the 2004 databases is:

C:
Users
[your user name]
AppData
Roaming
My HorseRaces 2.9
2004 horse races.mdb

Access database structure

What are the historical databases?

Where will the databases be stored on my computer?

What is the structure of these Microsoft© Access databases?