Datapunter,
Being a Rookie i am tempted just to go with the standard app, but if not this is what i would like to do.
Taking the Sporting Life website they post Horse racing results up daily with in running comments for each runner. Each race has a seperate web address and i have checked them out and they appear to be standard HTML. Do you think for a rookie it would be too ambitious to create a program that extracted these results daily into a database that was searchable via horse name?
had a quick look, will take a bit of time to write but in itself its pretty straight foreward, would even dare to say like taking candy from a baby 
So that's a No not too ambitious
