By role
One single screen serves seven rankings: Players, Owners, Trainers, Jockeys, Breeders, Racecourse managers and Punters. The Rankings menu leads there directly by the role that interests you.
And it has to be said at once, because it is surprising: these are not sporting rankings. Neither wins nor medals are counted in them, but money. The columns are takings, costs and a profit — and it is the profit that makes the rank.
What each role measures
The two middle columns change according to the ranking consulted:
- Owners: the horses' earnings on one side, the joining fees on the other. In other words, do your entries bring in more than they cost?
- Racecourse managers: the registration earnings taken in and the prizes paid. Organising races is a profession of balance, and this ranking measures it.
- Trainers, Jockeys, Breeders: only the profit appears, since those professions have nothing but takings — their shares of the prizes.
- Players and Punters: overall takings and costs.
So a good trainer can be badly ranked if they work for owners who do not enter their horses, and a wealthy owner can show a negative profit if they enter horses willy-nilly. It is a measure of economic result, not of talent.
Three filters, and they count
The month. Nothing is accumulated from the beginning of time: each ranking bears on one month, and the last twelve can be consulted. The current month is still moving, the previous ones are frozen. That is what gives everybody their chance — a month lost is not lost for ever.
The type of race. Regulated, Free or Competitions, separately. A player may dominate the free races and be absent from the regulated ones, and the ranking shows it. For punters, regulated races and competitions are grouped together: so there are only two choices.
The stable size, for the Players, Owners, Trainers and Jockeys rankings. It is the most important filter, and the easiest to ignore.
The divisions
One does not compare a stable of six horses with a stable of three hundred. Players are therefore divided into five divisions, according to the number of horses in activity:
| Division | Horses |
|---|---|
| Micro Team | up to 10 |
| Mini Team | from 11 to 30 |
| Maxi Team | from 31 to 100 |
| Extra Team | from 101 to 250 |
| Giga Team | beyond 250 |
The filter arrives set on your own division, worked out from your horses of the moment — and on the role concerned: your horses as owner for the owners' ranking, those you train for the trainers' one, and so on. So you land straight away where you really compete.
A consequence to know about: by enlarging your stable, you change division. A player first in Mini Team who buys twenty horses will find themselves in the middle of the table in Maxi Team. It is not a penalty, it is a change of category — as in sport.
Reading a line
The nickname, the place, the clan, then the financial columns. The nickname and the clan are clickable and lead to their cards: a ranking is also a directory of the month's active players.
The game's own account does not appear in it, so that the races organised by the program skew nobody.
The other rankings
These bear on the players. For the horses and the clans, see Horses, Records, Clans and Medals.