FANTASY COMP:

Current balance
$1,512,500 . ra sun
$1,479,000 . krausey
$1,365,000 . Lady Frisco
$1,250,000 . Goldmember
$1,248,000 . Horse Whisperer
$1,247,500 . Silver and sand
$950,000 . Tubby
$905,000 . Testarossa
$750,000 . Rabbitz
$632,500 . Real Deal
$572,500 . Raw Instinct
$490,000 . Panther
$435,000 . Sportz
$360,000 . syllabus23
$167,500 . Chuck
$162,500 . kiwi
$150,000 . Wesmip1

(Prizemoney won so far)
$655,000 . Testarossa
$632,500 . Real Deal
$447,500 . Silver and sand
$435,000 . Sportz
$398,000 . Horse Whisperer
$110,000 . syllabus23
$100,000 . Wesmip1
$90,000 . Panther
$67,500 . Chuck
$29,000 . krausey
$22,500 . Raw Instinct
$15,000 . Lady Frisco
$12,500 . ra sun
$12,500 . kiwi



BETTING COMP:

+$2.30 . Silver and sand
+$2.20 . Real Deal
+$2.20 . Testarossa
+$0.00 . Rabbitz
+$0.00 . Tubby
-$0.90 . Horse Whisperer
-$0.90 . Sportz
-$1.00 . Goldmember
-$1.00 . ra sun
-$1.70 . krausey
-$2.00 . Wesmip1
-$2.00 . Panther
-$2.00 . kiwi
-$3.00 . syllabus23
-$3.00 . Chuck
-$3.00 . Raw Instinct
-$3.00 . Lady Frisco

well, not a good start for me, but i will get it back when my stable stars lad of the manor and california dane come 1 and 2 in the CFORR ;)

Sportz mate, my trainer appears to have gone to the yearling sales bought a Zabeel for a cool million without my knowledge:D

sportz can i ask why you are putting our balances up? will this have anything to do with the comp?

Real Deal,

I'm very sorry if I didn't explain the rules properly or perhaps you didn't read them properly, but in fact, that is how we will be deciding the winner this year. The person who ends up with the highest balance on June12 will be the winner.

That's why I said that there was a lot more strategy involved with picking the stable this time. It was up to everyone exactly how much of their $5million bank they decided to use on their original stable. Most people decided to leave themselves with at least $500,000 left in the bank, while I myself decided to pick as good a stable as I possibly could and I spent the whole $5million. I just assumed you decided to do the same.

At the end of each month, if we want to buy new horses, we will only be able to spend as much money on trades as we have in our bank at the time. And what money we DO spend on trades comes out of our bank, so our balance will drop. As I said, there's a lot more strategy involved this time.

It will be a very interesting comp, I think. It's a bit like a handicap event, because the people up the top at the moment are there simply because they chose a cheaper stable, BUT because they chose a cheaper stable, they have less of the top horses and it's likely that others will catch up. You will notice that most of the top prizemoney earners from the first week are down the bottom half of the table, but I personally think there is every chance that one of those people will be in the lead or close to it by the end of the month.

Again, I'm very sorry if I didn't explain this well enough in my original post.

My bad sportz. What can i say about my stable-I am not the kind of guy you leave 500,000 burning a hole in my pocket. If i have $$ i spend them!

I have given some below average stables a nice healthy head start but confidence is high, repeat confidence is high i can catch them come comps end.

Chuck,

I'm afraid you've made a mistake with your stable. You included a horse called Studio in your 2YO list, and I've found out it's a 3YO. I should have checked up on this before the deadline.

Anyway, the story is that you now have to take her out and replace her with a 2YO costing $50,000 - $150,000. And it must be a horse that hasn't raced since the deadline on Feb2.

Poo. It looks like Xcellent is out now!!! :(

He was the very last horse I put in my stable too. I strongly considered not including him, but put him in at the last minute, and now that's $500,000 down the drain.

We could make a pretty damn good field out of all the top horses which will be missing from the big races this autumn. Very disappointing!!!

Well I am glad I didn't choose him. I did look but thought its form last year wasn't quite good enough considering the price it cost to buy...

500K isn't much Sportz you still have a good stable.

Yea big blow here to mate might have really hurt my chances there that injury but ohwell life goes on who knows might be able to pull a miracle.