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.