Calendar

The calendar shows the races that are going to exist. It is the world's programme: each line is an event that comes back regularly, with the date of its next edition, the nearest first.

You do not enter from it, and that is normal: the race does not exist yet. So you will find neither an Enter button nor a clickable name there — there is nothing to open. It is a screen for planning, not for acting.

The difference from “The races”

The two screens do not talk about the same object, and that is the only thing to remember so as not to get lost.

The races: the events that exist, and in which you enter.
Calendar: the events that will come back, and when.

Each manager decides how many days before the date his race opens. When the moment comes, it is created, entries open, and it appears in The races; the calendar line moves at once to the following edition. The same event can therefore appear in both lists with two different dates — the one you can run, and the one after.

Reading a line

Name, date and type: the date is that of the next edition, to the hour.
Class, racetrack and manager: a (2) after the racetrack's name indicates its second track. The manager's name is clickable, though — that is who you write to if the event interests you but its conditions exclude you by a whisker.
Criteria: exactly the same reading as on The races — start, handicap, ages, earnings, score, sex and particular mentions.
Cost, prizes and threshold: Auto means that the amounts will be calculated from the entries, and will therefore only be known at closing.

What it is really for

Making a horse and an event coincide. A foal that will reach two next month, a horse whose comeback you are preparing, a distance you want to try at last: the calendar tells you when the opportunity will arise, and leaves you time to train accordingly.

It is also where you spot the fixtures of a racetrack or a manager you like, and the hour at which they fall — useful when you want to attend the race rather than read the result the next day.

The case of cups

A cup changes its face with each edition: its time, its distance, its age band and its starting order are drawn at random. That does not make the line any less reliable — the values displayed really are those of the next edition, already settled. But do not count on the one after to look like this one.

What the calendar does not contain

Events on hold do not appear in it, nor those that were planned only once and have already taken place. And a race a manager creates by hand, outside any planning, does not pass through it at all: it appears directly in The races when it opens.