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Exclusive: Amber Fields’ Dilemma Selling Dezza To DerekW10!
Derekw10 Invests In The Future Of Virtual Horse Racing
Derekw10’s future in virtual horse racing looks assured if his latest purchase lives up to its price tag.
He just paid £4,799.97 for Dezza, an unraced two year old virtual racehorse from Amber Fields’ stable, in the latest online auction at RaceClubs.com. While the virtual horse racing community is excited about the record-breaking transfer they aren’t sure what to expect from Dezza because Amber Fields cleverly concealed Dezza’s highest training records so they weren’t visible for public consumption and Derekw10 stubbornly refuses to release any video footage of Dezza’s training runs. The only reliable information about Dezza potential is his price tag- and that’s not a comforting thought.
Derekw10 does admit that even though he hasn’t decided how he’s going to race the young colt, he does foresee a future that includes Dezza winning the Ladbrokes Monthly Challenge, Stayers Challenge Final, The Derby and the St. Leger and the Cesarewitch Challenge Final to become the greatest horse in the history of RaceClubs.com. Or, he adds, “I might race him all out!”
Investing £4,799.97 in a virtual race horse may seem imprudent but it’s not uncommon in the virtual horse racing community for trainers to sell their horses for thousands of dollars on RaceClubs.com. It’s all part of the game, where owning a champion race horse capable of competing in the Challenge Series is equally rewarding and prestigious. The highest selling price for a virtual horse was established when Pompadours sold Auroborealis for £4,851.63. Dezza slots in at £4,799.97, followed by Holteender, Public Enemy No1 and He's A Goodone, who all sold for over £3,150.00 and still earned double their selling price. But it looks like Derekw10 might even set his sights on replacing La Gazza Ladra as the highest earning horse of all time.
One thing the virtual horse racing community can anticipate from the Derekw10 / Drezza partnership is some of the most exciting racing from one of the site’s most knowledgeable trainers on one of the most exciting horses of our time.
If you want to see Drezza in action, stay tuned to watch tonight’s Monthly League Challenge Qualifier-2YC.
| Horse | From | To | Cost |
| Auroborealis | pompadours | Nemesis Stud | £4,851.63 |
| Dezza | Amber Fields | derekw10 | £4,799.97 |
| Holteender | Weaver83 | Andy Hargie Stables | £3,838.59 |
| Public Enemy No1 | Nacho Libre | Wrs Stables | £3,423.42 |
| He's A Goodone | pompadours | Andy Hargie Stables | £3,150.00 |
| Forza Del Destino | SHANDYMAN | MrTug | £3,099.60 |
| SilverBullet Jonz | Jonz79 | Andy Hargie Stables | £2,971.08 |
| El Nino Got A Bro | Black Death | derekw10 | £2,960.37 |
| Cozmic Millennium | shotgun_mike | derekw10 | £2,598.75 |
| Sri Lanka | Dommo | Andy Hargie Stables | £2,525.04 |
RaceClubs.com is played in numerous currencies so for consistent recordkeeping all transactions are converted to US dollars while other currencies would fluctuate. Therefore, Auroborealis’ $7,701 selling price makes him the most expensive horse in the world of virtual horse racing, followed by Dezza’s $7,619 selling price. If you played RaceClubs.com in GBP, you would see that Dezza sold for £4,800 while Auroborealis sold for £3,927.
That’s a difference of $82 or £873, depending upon your exchange rate but ultimately the only thing that matters is not how much your horse cost you but how much it earned for you!
Derekw10's Training Guide.
I like to think of this as the most advance training guide you can get without me training your horses my self. This training guide is how I train every horse in the Derekw10 stable. I have rules that I stick to in training and I would say I find every horse best distance and going in 2 cycles…….. Most of the time.Step 1 – Three it’s the magic numberFor each distance you have completed the following number of tts.
Sprinters 7 tts
Classic 5 tts
Stayers 4 tts
Dear Santa,
Christmas is just around the corner and after 364 days of me just giving, giving, giving it’s about time I got something too for a change. I don’t expect much but I do expect something decent.
On that note, I want something store bought, none of that homemade tat your glue-sniffing elves keep peddling. I really don’t care what you get me so long as it is expensive and you leave the price tag on because I’m probably going to exchange it for something I really want or at least push for a cash refund.
I’m sincerely concerned about the impact all that superfluous packaging has on the environment so I expect cash instead of gift-wrapping. Oh yeah, and don’t bother about the card because I don’t really care who sent it just so long as I get it on time.
I also expect a whole day of Christmas racing from RaceClubs.com, which better be sponsored because it is better to give than it is to receive, or so I’ve been led to believe. And for once, I hope the Race Programmer can get the goings right because I don’t waste my time training horses to find out their goings when I can have more fun complaining about them in the forums. And in the spirit of Christmas and all things being equal, I want equal sponsorships for my colts and fillies. Maybe even for all my horses regardless of age sex, colour, handicap or grade. Maybe £126.00 for colts and another £126.00.
Anyhow, I don’t have time to get too specific coz I know you’ll stuff it up again like you’ve done every year since my childhood, and just to make it easy for you I’m not hanging up socks or cleaning up after dead trees so you can just leave it all here under the
Christmas Races. Maybe a lucky draw along these lines for all horses that race in the Christmas races. Pleaese! (Not really sure how to spell that, Santa).
£75.60 G1 Colt
£40.95 G2 Colt
£9.45 G3 Colt
£75.60 G1 Filly
£40.95 G2 Filly
£9.45 G3 Filly
Regards
Me!
PS: However you spend your holidays, we wish you the best one ever!
Take a chance in the Potluck Sunday races!
A potluck is a gathering of people where each person or group of people contributes a dish of food prepared by the person or the group of people, to be shared among the group. Potluck dinners are often organized by religious or community groups, since they simplify the meal planning and distribute the costs among the participants. Smaller, more informal get-togethers with distributed food preparation may also be called potlucks. The only traditional rule is that each dish be large enough to be shared among a good portion (but not necessarily all) of the anticipated guests. In some cases each participant agrees ahead of time to bring a single course, and the result is a multi-course meal. Guests may bring in any form of food, ranging from the main course to desserts. Sometimes the variety can be overwhelming, other times it’s a case of you take what you can get.
In the United States, potlucks are associated with crockpot dishes, casseroles, dessert bars and jello salads. The word pot-luck appears in 16th century England, in the work of Thomas Nashe, and was there used to mean "food provided for an unexpected or uninvited guest, the luck of the pot". The sense "communal meal, where guests bring their own food", appears to have originated in the late 19th century or early 20th century US, particularly in the Western United States, either by influence from potlatch or possibly by extension of traditional sense of "luck of the pot". To the Irish, a potluck was a meal with no particular menu. Everyone participating brought a dish for all to share. The term comes from a time when groups of Irish women would gather together and cook dinner. They only had one pot so they cooked the meal together with whatever ingredients they happened to have that day.
RaceClubs.com is inviting all trainers to race in any of the Potluck Sunday races this Sunday. Prizes worth £252.00 must be won but you’re going to have to take what you can get because only the horses that place first or last in the Sunday Potluck races will be entered into the draw. It’s an opportunity to race your best and your worst horses for an entry into the lucky draw.
£75.60 G1 Winner!
£40.95 G2 Winner!
£9.45 G3 Winner!
£75.60 G1 Loser!
£40.95 G2 Loser!
£9.45 G3 Loser!
(Prizes will be paid on Tuesday, 20th December 2011.)
Take a chance today!
Information: Wikipedia / Sponsorships: RaceClubs.com
Biography: Graham is a reporter for the Irish Independent newspaper and is based in London. He presented on the Raceclubs/Getminted horse racing TV show in Britain a number of years back and is the former sports editor of the Irish Post newspaper. Also he has been a broadcast and print journalist for the last decade working in the U.K., Australia and in his native Ireland. He presents a show on local BBC radio in the South East of England and claims to have Psychic powers. He once worked as a body double for Johnny Vegas and represented Slovakia in last year’s Eurovision song contest with the song “random factor blues”!
Quietly as you go!From Brown Willy to Kill and on to Bell End there are some weird and wonderfully named places on these Isles. When I was young our Gaelic football side at home used to play against a team from a place called Spa, just outside Killarney – very politically incorrect I know.The winner of the £10 in bonus credits on offer this week is the Gedgeys Top Guns stable who told us “Here in Norfolk when we go to Wells on Sea we have to be very quiet as pass by Little Snoring and then Great Snoring” – yes there were funnier and ruder place names but I like the context! Incidentally I used to work for Western Union money transfer as a teen and once had to ring an agent in Bald Knob, Arkansas to sort out a money wire for someone, could hardly talk to the person involved without giggling like a little school girl on the phone!Nail-biting time ahead of Euro 2012 drawAs you’ll notice this week’s View From the Stands is slightly off topic and with good reason. If you haven’t seen my Challenge Series reviews check out the Race Articles section of the forums. Every word in every article is completely and utterly true! After writing the reviews I thought I was seeing horses in my bedroom, in the lift at work, in Church! As I write I’m sitting in a café in Dublin. Ireland is on the edge of its metaphorical seat as we await the draw for next summer’s European Championships in Poland and the Ukraine. We’re allowed to get over-excited, these will be only our second Euros ever! Who will we get!!! I had a dream last night and here’s how I think our group will end up…wonder if I should find a bookmakers?GROUP AHollandEnglandSwedenRep of IrelandThe Night Before Christmas (the alternative version!)Twas the night before Christmas - Old Santa was pissed. He cussed out the elves and threw down his list.Every Challenge Series victory is worth celebrating because it is the ultimate accolade for every trainer to be recognized as a consummate champion in the competitive world of virtual horse racing on RaceClubs.com.
The months of preparation are often fraught with frustration and anticipation, because victory on the final day can be as elusive as a dream, and one daren’t allow one’s optimism to get the better of one’s senses. For some trainers that suppressed enthusiasm can explode into euphoria as their horses cross over the finish line, unfortunately for others, it can implode into misery, but the fact remains that nothing can compare to the joy that follows when one wins their first Challenge Series.
Imagine the celebrations that ripped through the stables of Divine Diva Stables, Ginger Richards Stud, Halligan Racing Club, Mac Hardy and Nightmare Stable as they experienced the thrill of their first Challenge Series victory.
Divine Diva Stables is no stranger to the Challenge Series, in the last five seasons she’s competed in no less than 64 Challenge Series with 13 places, but it was Papa Sangre’s spirited performance in The Derby that finally secured Divine Diva her first title. Papa Sangre may have been a ‘sales ring special’ but today’s he’s a bona fide champion!
Ginger Richards Stud’s Nunthorpe Sprint Final (Fillies) title was literally sent by the gods in the form of his 3Y filly, Sent By The Gods, who secured Ginger his first Challenge Series victory after only five tries. Technically, Ginger Richards Stud is only a rookie in the Challenge Series, but thanks to his Nunthorpe title he’s also champion.
After nine runs and no places in any of his Challenge Series, Halligan Racing Club went full throttle on the back of Rebellious Spirit to win the Nunthorpe Sprint Final (Colts). Halligan has only been racing virtual horses for 6 months before deciding that he has what it takes to compete in the ultimate challenge on RaceClubs.com.
It’s taken Nightmare Stable five years to make it into the winners circle in a Challenge Series race, but that just proves that with perseverance and determination one can accomplish anything on RaceClubs.com. With 107 and 9 Challenge runs under his belt, it was Bomb Surprise who exploded through the Stayers Challenge Final Juvenile to make Nightmare Stable’s biggest dream come true.
But it was Mac Hardy who scored a double dip in the Challenge Series, winning both the Classic Challenge Final Juvenile and Stayers Challenge Final Juvenile with his colts Bogan Josh and Doovalacky. Virtual horse racers would know that’s no easy feat but he made it look effortless!
Winning your first Challenge Series may seem near impossible, probably because it is, but that’s what virtual horse racing is all about, achieving the impossible!
Congratulations to Divine Diva Stables, Ginger Richards Stud, Halligan Racing Club, Mac Hardy and Nightmare Stable on your first Challenge Series victory- may it be the first of many more!
The RaceClubs.com Team
The future of horse racing is online at RaceClubs.com
horses, racing, championships, sponsorships, entertainment
 The Witching HourFor some, the witching hour is best associated with ghouls, ghosts and goblins. Spells and potions are conjoured. Halloween has passed but the RaceClubs.com clock keeps ticking and for many the sands of time have run out. For others, a new dawn brings fresh promise. The birth of something special, maybe? A new quest begins for those who have the talent and enthusiasm is hype. There may be a few tears along the way and tales of joy or misfortune but for all the hardship, time and dedication given to this glorious game, the inevitable will occur. Our stable stalwarts have reached the grand old age and lay resting in cyber space for eternity. The empty spaces in your stable where your champions used to bed are cleaned out for the last time. The memories remain, even if the horses don't. The scent of anticipation wafts slowly into the distance as your stable star fails to live up to expectation and you are forced to evaluate your old and existing breed, ready to lay down the challenge in another dramatic chapter in your journey as a trainer, I speak of course about one thing, the new season. As the clock struck twelve, four of RaceClubs.com's greatest ever horses said farewell to the track for good. El Nino Got A Bro, Sir Sam Silver, Urban Legend and Ultimate Fantasy were and will remain legends of the track. Between them they have posed for the camera ahead of the pack on 685 ocasions within the garded and challenge scene and amassed a remarkable share of £50,181 and all will leave their legacy with claim to being a challenge final winner. The end was sweet for Sir Sam Silver and El Nino Got A Bro, as both horses signed off with a win on World Challenge Day but alas, Urban Legend and Ultimate Fantasy failed in their quest to leave that last lingering smile on their trainers face, although it will be their presence that will be missed, rather than the memory of that last win. Whether you're a lover or hater of the monsters, if you feel they belong in the game or not, they will be missed, mainly by many for the wrong reason. So, it is hear we bid them a fond farewell and all head to the sales ring to try and catch their clone, however, something tells me that we won't be seeing any of them again for quite some time as the new breed of monster reigns supreme. As many a flame dies, there are many more that stand on the precipice of uncertainty. It's enough to send shivers down your spine and have grown men and women scream blue murder at their computer screen. Many a dog or cat have be scorn by the fury that some trainers have displayed when hitting the training button for the very first time, come age change. We are all night owls when it comes to season's end. Happily brewing up the tea and sat waiting for the moment to come. Hair loss has become the norm for some and drastic measures have been taken by the few that claim to have no hair to pull out. For they have put the shaver over, down to the wood as hair pulling can become quite painful, especially if the age change is not good for you. A very wise tactic! The trainers at RaceClubs.com are of all walks of life, a diverse batch of society who love nothing more than shouting and cheering when their virtual nags head allcomers at the line. Fickle, some would say, personally, most of us are mad. We are addicts beyond normality. We crave success, longing to be the one who nutures and unleashes a champion to have his foes look upon him or her with envy, wondering why we couldn't have pulled that one from the ring. We all love this game, in our own little peculiar way but we all share one thing in common, nobody is safe from the despair of a bad age change. Caterpillars must all coccoon on the first day of each RaceClubs.com trimester and sprout wings in the bellies of all trainers, just before midnight, as there are shed loads of butterflies to be seen at this time. The trainer that takes it all in his stride is the one whom we all want to be. The one who shakes off a bad age change as if nothing more was expected. For they are the royal marine, lethal in their ways, cold to the core, nothing raises their eyebrow. They show no weakness, no fear and have a bring-it-on attitude but even the hardened player can't escape a bad age change. We talk it up and then we play it down, some quiver in the corner of the forum, afraid to mention how badly their yard has been affected but many keep quiet, why is this? Maybe it's because they fear the backlash from the forums if they even mention they've had a good age change. No, it's because they play their cards close to their chest, poker faced to the end. Thay are not about to mention all the good age changes they have had because you don't remember them, you only remember the bad ones. The age change can be bad. It can also be good but the fundamental thing you all have to remember when tackling the age achnge is to resist the urge to fire up your virtual gun. Over the seasons many horses have been shot because they have not been given a fair crack of the whip by their trainers. It is certainly not unsual to witness the best of a horses age change after maybe four or five training cycles. It is all too easy to think you have had a bad one because your first flip is poor. Don't let this deceive you. More often than not you have jumped the gun in more than one way. The first thing to consider after the age change is to train some more and then train again. Look for the maximum and push your horse to the limits, you may be pleasantly suprised. The second thing to consider is that you may not be the only one who has suffered such a fate. Think about it, your horse has aged and trained on but how do you know how he or she will compete if you don't even give them the chance. The way to see things is from another perspective. Maybe your horse has had the best age change in their age group, it's possible. You will never know this if you hastily reach for the bazuka. Training times vary from season to season, so do age change pecentages, too many horses are the subject of abuse post age change, it's a crime, somebody call animal welfare! Member Submission: Moletown |
Every Challenge Series victory is worth celebrating because it is the ultimate accolade for every trainer to be recognized as a consummate champion in the competitive world of virtual horse racing on RaceClubs.com.
The months of preparation are often fraught with frustration and anticipation, because victory on the final day can be as elusive as a dream, and one daren’t allow one’s optimism to get the better of one’s senses. For some trainers that suppressed enthusiasm can explode into euphoria as their horses cross over the finish line, unfortunately for others, it can implode into misery, but the fact remains that nothing can compare to the joy that follows when one wins their first Challenge Series.
Imagine the celebrations that ripped through the stables of Divine Diva Stables, Ginger Richards Stud, Halligan Racing Club, Mac Hardy and Nightmare Stable as they experienced the thrill of their first Challenge Series victory.
Divine Diva Stables is no stranger to the Challenge Series, in the last five seasons she’s competed in no less than 64 Challenge Series with 13 places, but it was Papa Sangre’s spirited performance in The Derby that finally secured Divine Diva her first title. Papa Sangre may have been a ‘sales ring special’ but today’s he’s a bona fide champion!
Ginger Richards Stud’s Nunthorpe Sprint Final (Fillies) title was literally sent by the gods in the form of his 3Y filly, Sent By The Gods, who secured Ginger his first Challenge Series victory after only five tries. Technically, Ginger Richards Stud is only a rookie in the Challenge Series, but thanks to his Nunthorpe title he’s also champion.
After nine runs and no places in any of his Challenge Series, Halligan Racing Club went full throttle on the back of Rebellious Spirit to win the Nunthorpe Sprint Final (Colts). Halligan has only been racing virtual horses for 6 months before deciding that he has what it takes to compete in the ultimate challenge on RaceClubs.com.
It’s taken Nightmare Stable five years to make it into the winners circle in a Challenge Series race, but that just proves that with perseverance and determination one can accomplish anything on RaceClubs.com. With 107 and 9 Challenge runs under his belt, it was Bomb Surprise who exploded through the Stayers Challenge Final Juvenile to make Nightmare Stable’s biggest dream come true.
But it was Mac Hardy who scored a double dip in the Challenge Series, winning both the Classic Challenge Final Juvenile and Stayers Challenge Final Juvenile with his colts Bogan Josh and Doovalacky. Virtual horse racers would know that’s no easy feat but he made it look effortless!
Winning your first Challenge Series may seem near impossible, probably because it is, but that’s what virtual horse racing is all about, achieving the impossible!
Congratulations to Divine Diva Stables, Ginger Richards Stud, Halligan Racing Club, Mac Hardy and Nightmare Stable on your first Challenge Series victory- may it be the first of many more!
The RaceClubs.com Team
The future of horse racing is online at RaceClubs.com
horses, racing, championships, sponsorships, entertainment
International Jockeys Championship Races 2011
For the eighth consecutive year, Cathay Pacific is the proud sponsor and official airline of Hong Kong’s largest and most prestigious international horse-racing event. They invite the best jockeys, trainers and horses in the world to compete against each other. The 2011 International Jockeys Championship races promises to be the most exciting one ever. If you’re flying Cathay Pacific to see the International Jockeys Championship races, you just need to present your air ticket or boarding pass to enjoy free admission to the public enclosure. Alternatively, you just need to present yourself in front of RaceClubs.com’s RaceViewer to enjoy all the action of the International Jockeys Championship Races without even having to get your passport getting stamped! RaceClubs.com has sponsored two International Jockeys Championship races with £126.00 each on Wednesday, 7th December! Enter Today!