Polls and Surveys

You are required to select two horses, in each of the 12 races, who you believe will get beaten.   This is a risk-reward game - the more favoured the runner, the more points you will earn, however if your selection wins you will lose points and lose a life. Scoring - if your runner does not win you will earn points equal to 100 divided by the Tote win dividend, eg. if the tote dividend was $3.50 you will earn 100/3.5 = 28.57 points.  If your horse wins you will lose the same number of  points you would have earned had it been beaten (ie. 100 /Win dividend) and you will also lose one life.   You will have a total of three lives on the day - if you reach three winners you are eliminated from this round.  You are not eliminated from the entire 6 week comp but you will limit your ability to earn points in this round. Standings - final standings for the day (and points earned) will be determined firstly by how far you progress, and then by the number of points that you earned across all 12 races. For example if 5 entrants are the first eliminated after say 3 races then they will fill the final 5 placings and be split by points earned (or lost) over the 12 races.  If only 12 people make it all the way to the finish they will fill the top 12 placings and be split by points earned.  Someone who earns 100 points and is eliminated after 8 races, will finish ahead of someone who earns 200 points and is eliminated after 7 races. Best bets (optional) - over the 12 races you can nominate two as best bet (or should I say worst bet) races - you don't have to use them if you choose not to - again risk & reward.  A best bet selection will earn double points for both runners in that race, but will also lose double points if one (or both) of your selections wins.  Note, you will only lose one life (not two) if a best bet selection wins. Scratchings - if one or both of your selections is scratched (regular or late) you can replace them up until the posting deadline, otherwise you will earn zero points - you may survive 12 races by picking scratchings but my history with this LGL comps tells me that you are unlikely to win that way (and it's also not much fun).   Abandoned races - we need a minimum of 6 races to be run for the results to stand.  Any less than 6 and we will re-run the round next week.  If you had a best bet in an abandoned race you can change best bet races up until the posting deadline - after that is just the rub of the green. Dead-heats - if one of your picks dead-heats for first, it will count as a winner and you will lose points based on the full win dividend (not the half they pay out) and lose one life.  In the highly unlikely event that both of your picks dead heat for 1st you will lose points for both but only lose one life.

PLEASE NOTE CAREFULLY - THIS WEEK IS A LAY FORMAT - YOU ARE PICKING RUNNERS WHO YOU BELIEVE WILL GET BEATEN. More detailed rules in the following post but in simple terms. Pick two runners in each of the 12 races listed below.  You want them to get beaten.  The shorter they are the greater the potential reward but also the greater the risk or potential penalty.   You can specify up to two races as Best bet races (but you can choose to have only one or no best bet races if you'd prefer). This week's 12 races are as follows: TBD 1.  2.  3. 4.  5. 6.  7.  8.  9.  10.  11.  12.  Posting deadline:  TBD Please enter saddlecloth numbers, not the horses names.  And you will notice that unlike most comps, the races are listed in chronological order - please submit your selections in the order listed above.   I will enter your picks into the scoring spreadsheet in the order you list them so if you use a different order you'll end up with some muddled up races.

Gruff n tumble been happening for some years now, remember the days of a tight finish, they’d wait for the judges call and you’d know your fete, these days occasionally you’ll see a quick clip of the photo, more often than not now they move on to the next at Timbuktu,and you wait some time for the result, definitely a backward step, even with all the tech available,