UK greyhound tracks

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Luke.B
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Hi,
The historic data combines aus and UK greyhounds.
Can anyone help with a list of uk tracks so i can filter out.
Does the historic data combine any other countries too?
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ODPaul82
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It's been a while since I looked at greyhound data but a processing tool I wrote for it before I've got a filter to exclude NZL from the data
Code I have is
If InStr(strLine, "(AUS)") = 0 And InStr(strLine, "(NZL)") = 0 Then
.......
End If

There's a listing of all the courses here
https://www.gbgb.org.uk/racing/race-courses/

Think it was about 2019 betfair lengthed the course names to their proper names (same as the horses) so in some of the historic data would for example be Henl whilst others might be Henlow. There are sometimes Irish races but these are few and far between

It's been a while since I look at this file but this is the listing I've extracted from DB (there are some aus ones in there) and I can't confirm if it's captured all of them.

Course
BVue
Cann (Aus)
Casi (Aus)
Central Park
Cork
CPark
Cran (AUs)
Crayf
Crayfd
Crayford
Donc
Doncaster
Geel (Aus)
Harl
Harlow
Henl
Henlow
Hove
Ipsw (Aus)
Kinsl
Kinsley
Limerick
Mait (Aus)
Mead (Aus)
Monm
Monmore
Mullingar
Newc
Newcastle
Nott
Nottingham
PBarr
Pboro
Pelaw Grange
Perry Barr
PGran
Poole
Romfd
Romford
Shawfield
Sheff
Sheffield
Shelb
Shelbourne
Shelbourne Park
Sund
Sunderland
Swin
Swindon
Towcester
Warr (Aus)
WPrk (Aus)
Yarm
Yarmouth
Luke.B
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Thanks.
So ire dont have greyhounds on a daily basis.
Any meet that doesnt have (aus) can be assumed uk greyhounds?
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ODPaul82
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Pretty much, anything that doesn't have AUS or NZL. I think it's more historic data that had NZL in them.
Irish tracks off top of head are Shelbourne, Cork & Limerick
Luke.B
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Ok thanks. Quick query.
I guess it is impossible to do daily form when they lump all greyhound races together and release the prev days races at night ready for UK, therefore missing the aus market.
Only option would be API wouldn't it..
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