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Grey Horse Bot and GHB Lite race query document.
You can now get your selections through any Grey Horse Bot that has “Server Tips” using a query system:
Here is how it works.
We have created a system within our CYOTS frame work which allows you to query races depending on your criteria
The system is based around our own rating system but these can be overridden to give you any selection.
Our goal is to improve this as we go along to include a lot more details but this system combined with the features of the Grey Horse Bot give you a very powerful way of selecting races.
You can either use our special Software (coming shortly) to create the query string or you can do it manually using the instructions below.
We start of with a base URL which is
http://www.cyots.co.uk/callqry.asp? (don’t forget the ? at the end)
The first query must always come after the ? and this will be the service and your unique number from that service.
bottype=ghb (for Grey Horse Bot)
bottype=ghbl (for Ghblite)
unid=5426422644 (You can get this from the members area "query string id=" found on "my account" page.)
http://www.cyots.co.uk/callqry.asp?bottype=ghb&unid=5426422644
After that queries are built up using “&” or ampersand.
Adding another query will look like this
http://www.cyots.co.uk/callqry.asp?bottype=ghb&unid=5426422644&thisRating=1&Allraces=1
We can then build up a longer URL by adding in the queries we want to use.
Ratings
We rate every horse in every race based on our unique rating system.
If you want to select all 1st rated horses you add the query:
thisRating=
followed by the rating number
thisRating=1
thisRating=2
thisRating=3
The one thing to remember is that there is a minimum of 2 runners in a race but normally 3 or above. So if you picked 8th rated horse you probably wouldn’t get a selection in every race.
There are two alternatives to just selecting the rated horses.
Rating plus a lower and upper range.
RT=1
Tells the query to only select runners that are between
RTLow=
RTHigh=
http://www.cyots.co.uk/callqry.asp?bottype=ghb&unid=5426422644&thisRating=1&RT=1&RTLow=80&RTHigh=100
In the above query you will get ever selections that is first rated but only if their rating is between 80 and 100.
Some horses have minus ratings so you can use
http://www.cyots.co.uk/callqry.asp?bottype=ghb&unid=5426422644&thisRating=1&RT=1&RTLow=-10&RTHigh=140
Remember this query is based on your ratings choice as well but you can turn this off and query every runner no matter what their ratings figure is.
RT=2
Tells the query to select any runners that are between
RTLow=
RTHigh=
http://www.cyots.co.uk/callqry.asp?bottype=ghb&unid=5426422644&thisRating=1&RT=2&RTLow=-100&RTHigh=200
The above query will select every runner for the day because it covers the minimum and maximum ratings number.
Number of runners in the race
You can query the racing based on the number of runners in the race by adding the following two queries.
RunLow=
RunHigh=
Please note you do have to use both queries.
So if you only want to use races where there are 8 runners or less your query will look like this:
http://www.cyots.co.uk/callqry.asp?bottype=ghb&unid=5426422644&thisRating=1&RunLow=0&RunHigh=8
Or races where there are 8 to 12 runners.
http://www.cyots.co.uk/callqry.asp?bottype=ghb&unid=5426422644&thisRating=1&RunLow=8&RunHigh=12
Last Time Out (Lto)
LTO=1 this activates this command
LTOLow=1
LTOHigh=5
http://www.cyots.co.uk/callqry.asp?bottype=ghb&unid=5426422644&thisRating=1& LTO=1& LTOLow=1& LTOHigh=5
One thing about LTO at the moment.
This is based on how the runner performed on it’s last run but this only select runners if they actually have a 0 to 9 as their LTO figure.
If they were Pulled or Fell at the moment we do not cater for this, but will very shortly.
Race Type
At the moment you can query for Maiden, Novice, Handicap or Other.
Using:
Allraces=1 in the query looks at all races.
Removing this query and adding.
novice=1
Maiden=1
Handicap=1
Other=1
You can mix and match these queries as much as you like.
Selects all races
http://www.cyots.co.uk/callqry.asp?bottype=ghb&unid=5426422644&thisRating=1&Allraces=1
Only looks at Novices and Maidens.
http://www.cyots.co.uk/callqry.asp?bottype=ghb&unid=5426422644&thisRating=1& novice=1& Maiden=1
Course Type
At the moment we use this to mean IRE, UK or AW
AllCources=1 in the query will look at all races.
If you want to query a specific type of race then you can use:
IRE=1
AW=1
UK=1
Selects all Cources
http://www.cyots.co.uk/callqry.asp?bottype=ghb&unid=5426422644&thisRating=1&AllCources=1
Only selects IRE or AW
http://www.cyots.co.uk/callqry.asp?bottype=ghb&unid=5426422644&thisRating=1&IRE=1&AW=1
Place selections
If you want to run on the place market add.
markettype=P
http://www.cyots.co.uk/callqry.asp?bottype=ghb&unid=5426422644&thisRating=1&IRE=1&markettype=P
This will tell the Grey Horse Bot that it has to format the name for the place market.
Course Names
One of the ideas behind this new feature is so that you can be much more selective in the races you want to bet on.
And that is why we have also introduced Course Names.
This is a little trickier than the others because you have to first tell the query how many courses you want to monitor and then you have to name them correctly.
Let us say that we only every want to be on Aintree, Kempton, Fontwell, Huntingdon
We first tell the query we have 4 courses we want to monitor.
cources=4
We then tell it which 4 courses.
cources1=Aintree-Kempton-Fontwell-Huntingdon-
Note each course is separated by a dash “-” and it ends in a “-”
http://www.cyots.co.uk/callqry.asp?bottype=ghb&unid=5426422644&thisRating=1&IRE=1& cources=4& cources1=Aintree-Kempton-Fontwell-Huntingdon-
We are going to look for ways to improve this but at the moment it allows you to monitor the days races and only bet when those courses are running.
C,D,CD and BF
To base your criteria on Beaten Favourites (BF), Course Winners (C ), Distance winners (D) or Course and Distance winners (CD) then you can put them in the query like this.
chkBF = 1
ChkCD = 1
ChkCwin = 1
chkDWin = 1
So if you only wanted to select runners that were BF last time out your query string would look like this.
http://www.cyots.co.uk/callqry.asp?bottype=ghb&unid=5426422644&thisRating=1&chkBF = 1
PLEASE NOTE: At the moment this is a combined instruction which means…
If you select BF and C winners it will only pull out selections that are BF and C winners it will not find only BF winners and only C winners.
Coming Soon
Going
More types of races.
We hope you can see the power of this system.
Once you have created this query then you can put in the “Server Tips” function of the Grey Horse Bot to automatically download and monitor the races.
Don’t forget to make sure your other settings are correct.
You can also put the query string into a browser just like any link and it will return the races so you can check them first.
If you have any queries about using this system then please do hesitate to call me.
Please also note you probably won’t be able to run the query until after 7am in the morning which is when our system finishes updating.
But if you use the link with the Grey Horse Bot then it will just keep monitoring anyway.
Thank you for reading I really do appreciate it.
Malcolm