The races

This is the world's catalogue of races, and the screen from which you enter your horses. Every race is in it, not only yours: you look there for the one that will suit a given horse.

By default, the list shows the races open for entries, the nearest first. That is the essential of an owner's work: finding, for each horse, the event where it has something to play for.

The same catalogue opens from the Trainer, Jockey and Clan menus. There are not four different lists, but four filters remembered separately: you can keep four searches ready-made — your 2,000 m trot races on one side, those reserved for your clan on the other — and move from one to the other through the menu.

What changes from one menu to another comes down to two points. In the Clan menu, the filter arrives set on From my clan. And entry is open only to the horse's owner and jockey: from the Trainer menu, you consult what is on offer to your charges, but it is their owner or their jockey who enters them.

Reading a line

Each race is read in five blocks.

Name, date and type: the name leads to the race's card, which says all the rest — and in particular which earnings total it will add its prizes to.
Class, racetrack and manager: regulated, free, competition, cup. The manager is the player or the team that organises it.
Criteria: the most important column, because it is what accepts or refuses you. There you find the kind of start, the handicap if there is one, the bounds of age, earnings and basis score, a possible sex condition, and the particular mentions: claiming race, small stable, without accessory, reserved.
Entrants, minimum and You: see below, it is what reads least spontaneously.
Cost, prizes and threshold: what the entry costs you, what the race distributes, and the threshold used. Auto means that the manager lets them be calculated from the entries — the amounts will therefore only be known at closing.

The “You” line

It reads 1/2 - 0/3: you have one horse entered as owner out of two allowed, none as jockey out of three allowed. Those two limits are set by the manager, race by race, to stop one single player filling the field.

One detail worth knowing: in the last hour before entries close, both limits rise by one each. A race on the edge of being under-subscribed can thus be saved by those who had already reached their quota. Bear it in mind if an event that interests you is struggling to fill.

Entering a horse

The Enter button in the last column opens the entry window, where you choose the horse. When it is replaced by a word, that word tells you why — and as they are very short, here they are translated:

Full: the twenty runners are reached. Cups escape that limit.
Already done: you have reached both your quotas, owner and jockey.
Reserved: the race is restricted — to designated horses, to designated players, or to a clan. The word is displayed in both cases; if you are entitled to it, the button stays active and is marked by an alert icon.
Small: reserved for owners of a hundred horses at most. That is counted on your horses born and not retired.
Cup: you only get into a cup at the first round, and this one is already under way. The following rounds are won.

Two other conditions only show at the moment of choosing the horse, because they bear on it and not on you: the sex condition, and that of claiming races, which only accept horses put up at auction. That is their principle: you enter there what you accept seeing go. The auction is automatically extended beyond the race, so that a horse does not change hands between the entry and the start.

Minimum, postponements and cancellation

The Minimum column gives the number of entries below which the race cannot be run. When the closing time comes without that number being reached, the race is put back twenty-four hours and stays open: the entries are kept, and the race's postponements counter goes down by one. Once its postponements are used up, it is cancelled and the entry fees are given back.

One rule to know before counting on your own horses alone: a regulated race that pits only a single owner against himself is treated as under-subscribed, whatever the number of runners. A regulated race is not run against yourself.

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