Patent ID: 7645191

Claim:
A computer implemented process for handicapping a future horse race using data from a past race, comprising, by execution of program instructions by a computer system that comprises one or more computing devices: receiving an electronic selection of an upcoming race to handicap, wherein the race will be run at a track; receiving an electronic selection of a horse in the upcoming race; receiving an electronic selection of a past race that the horse has run at a past track; retrieving from an electronic storage media data related to the past race and data related to the upcoming race; comparing, using a computer processor module, data from the past race and data from the upcoming race; calculating, using a computer processor module, a first time adjustment for the horse's finish time in the past race using at least a number of lengths the horse was beaten in the past race, data from a first at least one previous race at the track where the upcoming race will be run, and data from a second at least one previous race at the past track where the past race was run; adjusting, using a computer processor module, the finish time of the horse in the past race in accordance with the first time adjustment to create a predicted finish time of the horse in the upcoming race, said predicted finish time used to predict the outcome of the upcoming race; sending the predicted finish time to an electronic output device; and displaying, using a display module, a visual representation of a simulation of the selected upcoming race using the predicted finish time, the visual representation indicating the predicted finish time.