Here is the draw for the first day of the finals which is Saturday.

Major Semi Final
(winner goes to grand final on April 18 - loser goes to next week)
kiwi v william

Minor Semi Final
(winner goes to prelim final next week - loser is eliminated)
kellmark v Sportz

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RULES - Please read...

Just a change to the number of bets used during the preliminary rounds. You can now post between 5 and 10 tips instead of 3-15 tips.

There's a change to the bet sizes for the finals. I apologise for changing them this year so that we only had 4 different bet sizes to work with. I thought it would make everything easier and reward people for just picking winners. But it tended to make things more difficult for me, so I assume it was the same for others.

So, for the finals, the bet sizes you can use are...

$5 ew
$10 win
$10 ew
$20 win
$15 ew
$30 win
$20 ew
$40 win

The person listed first in each matchup finished higher on the ladder, so they are given the "home ground advantage" of having more to spend. The person listed first is allowed to bet between $150 and $300 while the person listed second gets to bet between $120 and $240. In each case, betting the maximum amount won't actually give you a better chance. Because I will simply be converting your total winnings back to a score out of 150 or 120 as the case may be.

The tipster in each matchup who posts second is only allowed to include one of the horses tipped by the person who posted first. Just to clarify this... The person who's listed 2nd doesn't have to post their tips 2nd. They can get in and post their tips first if they want to. But whoever it is that ends up posting 2nd in each matchup, they can only tip one of the horses that the 1st tipster has picked.

In the unlikely event of a tie, the match will be awarded to the tipster listed 2nd.