My races
Every race you have organised, from the next ones to the oldest, and the New button that creates one.
If you are new to the trade, read the racecourse manager's trade first: this screen makes full sense once you know who pays what, and when.
Reading a line
Each line holds six blocks, and two of them are clickable.
- The race's name, which leads to its card — the one the owners see. Underneath, the date and time of the start, with in brackets the number of postponements still available, then the speciality and the length.
- The entry deadline and the class.
- The criteria: the summary of everything you have required of the entrants — age, earnings, sex, and the particular mentions if there are any.
- The entrants, the minimum required for the race to take place, and the break-even threshold. Those three figures read together say where the race stands: 3 entrants for a minimum of 5 and a threshold of 8, and you know you still need people.
- The state: Registration, Preparation, Finished, Deleted or Cancelled. It is not just a label, it is the link that opens the race.
- The costs and the takings.
A useful detail: on a deleted or cancelled race, the number of entrants is displayed in brackets. It recalls how many horses were entered at the moment everything was refunded.
Costs and takings
The costs are what the race cost you: the total of the winnings, plus the punter's jackpot. They are deducted as soon as it is created. If you let the game set the winnings, they stay at zero until the entries close.
The takings rise with each entry and fall back with each withdrawal. Take care not to be mistaken about them: it is a counter, not a payment. The money only reaches your account when the entries close. A race still open can therefore show handsome takings and you have not seen one sulkie of them.
The difference between the two is your profit on that race. That is the figure to look at afterwards, race by race, to know which settings work for you.
Seeing the entrants
The race's name leads to its card, and on that card the Start button lists the horses entered. As the organiser you see one column there more than the other players: the horse's code and that of its owner. This is not decorative — those are the codes one pastes into the reservation field of a following race to invite exactly the same people.
It is also there, and only on a competition still open, that a competition manager can refuse an entry. See the racecourse manager's trade.
Creating, changing, deleting
New opens the creation window: see Create a race. It serves for changes as well, and it is the state link that opens it on an existing race.
A race stops being changeable as soon as one horse is entered in it. The window opens all the same, so that you can read your settings over, but it displays This race can't be changed anymore and the save button disappears. That is the normal price of an entry: an owner who has paid did so on announced conditions.
Two other cases lock the race: it is no longer in the Registration state, or — for a regulated one — there are less than three hours before the entry deadline, which makes a little over three hours before the start since that deadline falls fifteen minutes before it. This last delay prevents a race from being reworked just before the owners make up their minds.
Delete is offered only on a race still in registration. The button is on every line, and the selection menu lets you delete several at once. It is not free: if horses are entered, you owe them compensation. See Delete a race.
The filters
The sort is by date of start — the original setting, and the most practical day to day — by entry cost or by name.
The state offers the states one by one, and above all two groupings that are of great use: Future, that is to say everything not yet run, and Past for the rest. Future is the filter to set when you want to steer the day's races; Past the one you set to do your accounts.
To those are added the class, the speciality, the length and the age — useful when you organise a lot of races and want to check at a glance what you are offering in one given category.
By default no state is filtered: you see all your activity, past and to come.
To go further
Creating your races one by one is fine to begin with, but soon becomes tedious. As soon as you find a formula that fills, put it in My calendar: it will recreate itself.