Enjoy all the decadence The Hobart Cup has to offer the Tasmanian Summer Racing set!

Enter The Hobart Cup Leger Races

It is considered to be the highlight of Southern Tasmanian mink and manure set, horse racing enthusiasts and the ubiquitous fashionistas who seem to gravitate wherever there is a photo opportunity with a horse. Yes there will be a fashion shot at the Hobart Cup if you're more interested in the fashions than the races, but more importantly there will be thoroughbred horses racing for over $300,000 sponsorships.

The real beauty of the Hobart Cup races is the Elwick Racecourse in Glenorchy, Australia (although it sounds like it could be in Ireland). It's a lush 2200 metre left-handed track which has showcased some of the most magnificent race horses you've ever seen down under. This is the track which helped make horses like Growl, Gotta Keep Cool, Offenbach, Blutigeroo and True Courser the champions they are today.

The Hobart Cup is part of the Tasmanian Summer Racing Carnival. You can also enjoy a picnic marquee on the lawns or enjoy a buffet luncheon in Terrace View Restaurant. If you feel like roughing it you can book a car spot for £288.00 and enjoy your picnic al fresco in the leger car parks or as the Italians put it more elegantly, "mangiare cibo in una macchina".

The Race Programmer is a simple man with simple tastes. He usually shares a table at the Terrace View Restaurant with some of the most beautiful women in the world: Linda (Ireland), Cathy (London), Taylor (USA), Maria (Italy) and Ana (Hong Kong). While they don't usually get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day he says they really make an effort for the four-course gourmet luncheon (only £204.80) because it includes a complimentary race book. He's not sure what they’re serving this year, but if last year’s pork & veal terrine, pepper crusted whole roasted sirloin of beef with pan jus and the vanilla panna cotta with mixed berry couli, chocolate shards & whipped cream for dessert were anything to go by then he’s planning on going there hungry.

"Such decadence!" you might say, but he's even stretched his budget to sponsor two Hobart Leger Prive C Division Juvenile races with £128.00 cash just for you on the 12th February, 2012.

Hobart Leger Prive C Division Juvenile C - Gr 1
Hobart Leger Prive C Division Juvenile F - Gr 1

There will also be a lucky draw for all runners in the Hobart Leger graded races to win one of the following prizes:

£38.40 G1 Winner: 
£16.00 G2 Winner: 
£9.60 G3 Winner:

(Prizes will be paid on Tuesday, 14 February 2011.)

So pull out your horses, silks and pack a lunchbox because we're going down under to see whose horses can reach the top!

The RaceClubs.com Team

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Crowd control problems at auctions- Graham Clifford sets the record straight!

Crowd control problems at auctions

102 people (and one lama) were arrested and five injured at this weekend’s Raceclub’s auctions. The first of the new season the auctions attracted owners from far and wide with hundreds of horses up for sale. Experts were predicting that some G1 challengers would transfer for very large sums of money but at the time of going to print the list of top transfers has yet to be published. In recent days the auctions and claims thread has been inundated with owners advertising their offerings and one owner who was present at the auction told me it was one of the busiest for years. Police asked all owners to have their horse’s tts ready for inspection and a shotgun_mike was questioned by anti-terrorism police because of his possession of a firearm in his name!

 

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Crowd control problems at auctions- Graham Clifford sets the record straight!

Crowd control problems at auctions

102 people (and one lama) were arrested and five injured at this weekend’s Raceclub’s auctions. The first of the new season the auctions attracted owners from far and wide with hundreds of horses up for sale. Experts were predicting that some G1 challengers would transfer for very large sums of money but at the time of going to print the list of top transfers has yet to be published. In recent days the auctions and claims thread has been inundated with owners advertising their offerings and one owner who was present at the auction told me it was one of the busiest for years. Police asked all owners to have their horse’s tts ready for inspection and a shotgun_mike was questioned by anti-terrorism police because of his possession of a firearm in his name!

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Are you privy to the Prive races? They're rich, expensive and incredibly lucrative!

Your Prive Preview: February's Prive Races

There’s a new race on the race program: The Prive Race.

Sat, Feb 4, 2012 - 21:18 Super Weekend Bowled Over WFA Prive 2-7Y F Gr 1
Sun, Feb 5, 2012 - 21:34 Super Weekend Bowled Over WFA Prive 2-7Y C Gr 1

Sun, Feb 12, 2012 - 10:20 Hobart Leger Prive C Division Juvenile C - Gr 1
Sun, Feb 12, 2012 - 10:23 Hobart Leger Prive C Division Juvenile F - Gr 1

Sun, Feb 19, 2012 - 17:03 Duke Of York B Division Prive 3Y C - Gr 1
Sun, Feb 19, 2012 - 17:08 Duke Of York B Division Prive 3Y F - Gr 1

Sun, Feb 26, 2012 - 21:06 Hong Kong Gold Cup B Division Prive 4-7Y C - Gr 1
Sun, Feb 26, 2012 - 21:20 Hong Kong Gold Cup B Division Prive 4-7Y F - Gr 1

Sun, Mar 4, 2012 - 10:26 B Division Juvenile Prive C - Gr 1
Sun, Mar 4, 2012 - 10:28 B Division Juvenile Prive F - Gr 1

The quickest way to find all of them is to type in the word PRIVE in the Race Name search box.

Prive races are rich, expensive and incredibly lucrative. Prive races are private races catering for the select few who enter high stakes races knowing they have the horses to win a £508.80 cash stakes race because it takes real money to create real wealth. A £576.00 cash stakes race can bring out a lot of competition but anyone entering a Prive race isn’t scared of the competition- they are the competition. The Prive races are for horses that win high stake races on their own merit because even the best jockey in the world is just the hired help paid wear silks in a saddle in public. Prive races are special because they’re for horses that can perform, even under the most challenging condition.

The first Prive Race is open exclusively to all top end three year old horses. 
Entry £32.00
Sponsorships £128.00 
Estimated Stakes £508.80 *

Estimated Payouts
1st £254.72
2nd £126.72
3rd £76.80
4th £50.56
Total £508.80

* Estimated stakes based on a full field with 14 runners. 
Subsequent instances will be sponsored proportionately.

Best wishes with all your runners!

The RaceClubs.com Team

 

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Grading upgraded so you can enter the right right races. We like it, and we know you will like it too!

Graded to be Eligible to Enter – A small change

A small change has/is being made to the game today which essentially prevents horses that have not yet been Graded from entering races. 

A horse is Graded when it first reaches a fitness of 90% through training. Until now it was possible to enter an un-Graded horse into Grade 1 Low races, thereby running it unfit. 

There are two main reasons that this was occurring, although rarely: 
1) An owner purposely wants an exceptionally poor run to get a weight benefit in a subsequent Allowance race. 
2) A newer player learning the game may mistakenly enter a new horse into a race unfit. 

For such horses that are not yet Graded, you will now be given a ‘Train’ button in place of the option to enter on the race entry pages. 

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Tomorrows's Hong Kong Classic is beyond SEXY- its going for GOLD!

Go for Gold in the Hong Kong Classic

The Hong Kong Cup is a Group 1 flat horse race in Hong Kong which is open to thoroughbreds aged three years or older. It is run over a distance of 2000 metres (about 1¼ miles) at Sha Tin, and it is scheduled to take place each year.

The race was first run on January 24, 1988, and its distance was initially set at 1800 metres. The inaugural running was restricted to horses trained in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore. Added to this list for the following season were horses from Australia and New Zealand. The race was switched to December for its third running, therefore taking place twice within 1989. Horses trained in Europe were admitted in 1990, followed by those from the United States in 1991, and Canada and Japan in 1992. The distance was increased to its present length, 2,000 metres, in 1999. Also at this time the race was promoted to Group 1 status.

The Hong Kong Cup is one of the four Hong Kong International Races, and it presently offers a purse of HK$20,000,000 (approximately US$2.58 million).

If you want to go for gold in your virtual horse races, then all you need to do is enter any one of RaceClubs.com's Hong Kong Classicraces on the 2nd, February 2012 to be entered into a lucky draw to win one of the following prizes:

£38.40 G1 Winner! 
£16.00 G2 Winner! 
£9.60 G3 Winner!

(Prizes will be paid on Friday, 3rd February 2012.)

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Moletown is taking a well-earned breather from writing and racing but we're hoping not a long one!

Moletown taking a well-earned breather

After being with us for just over three years in which time he clocked up 771 competitive wins and bagged just over £25k in prize winnings the brilliant Lee from the Moletown stables is taking a well-earned rest from the game (hopefully just to re-charge the batteries). Lee has also penned some superb articles on the forums and over the years has developed excellent relationships with countless stables who have contributed to his pieces. 

After making his decision to close the stable doors for a wee while he wrote “I have decided, due to time constraints, work, personal reasons and ill health, I need a break from this glorious game. It is with a heavy heart that I have come to this decision but I have to put family first. The one regret I have is that I do not have a shiny trophy against my name, not that I haven't tried...lol.” 
He added “I will return in the future and of course, should I still have horses in my yard after this week’s auction. I love this game and it will be a difficult void to fill and that's why I am confident of a return.” 

As for the upcoming sweepstakes competition (which Lee would normally run) – I’m not sure what’s happening with that but I’m sure Raceclubs will inform us in due course.

Enjoy the break Lee, you will be missed!

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