Using BrainMaker Competitor and Lotus macros, he has developed and automated a method for predicting the order of finish of six furlong claiming races at a Philadelphia race track. Rich says the BrainMaker Competitor formulation is the only software he is aware of which sets up the fact files in the manner necessary to formulate and solve this type of problem. It also provides the convenient ranking of results for the many hundreds of races necessary to train and solve this problem. According to Mr. Janava, the key to his success lies in the fact that he has limited his focus to one type of race and one race track. As any horse player knows, every type of race is affected by different racing variables.
Every race track is also different.
So far Janava has thoroughly explored and compared nine major race tracks. In other words, the key to success is to become a specialist. To make a generalized prediction, Mr. Janava analyzed hundreds of quality six-furlong races using the standard Racing Form paper. He started with an initial set of over 50 variables and determined that 24 variables were statistically significant. Several variables in each category are also combined to yield composite variables which extend the total number of variables considered for each horse to 31.