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Wind Surgery declarations have been mandatory race card info from 2018, is there any plan to include this in the smartform database? Thanks
ago in Horseracing research by attilathedunne Plater (150 points)

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Hi,

It's in the database in a number of places, however the best fields to use for it (since they show how many times a horse has run with wind surgery) are in historic_runners_insights, here:

https://www.betwise.co.uk/smartform/historic_runners_insights

See the descriptions for wind_surgery_dec and prev_wind_ops, as follows: 

the daily_runners and historic_runners table now contains a field for wind_surgery_declared. This field only contains an entry for the run immediately following any sort of wind_surgery. However, on any subsequent run where the horse did not have wind surgery immediately prior to that run and post its last run, there will be no evidence that a horse has previously had wind surgery without querying back in time for the horse's history. This field provides a ready solution by showing whether or not a horse has had any wind surgery at any point in its career, and how many different surgeries have been performed. Thus it shows 0,1,2 etc for each horse

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