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Super Saturday Results
Saturday 6th March..
Sorry everyone I deleted this page whilst trying to edit in the final scores
JacFinal results of our competition are now in and updated.
Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...Jac,
Well done in getting on to page 2 of the overall leaderboard
just 91 places to leap frog into the 1st position for you
I’d love to know how many above you have no swaps left.Blackbeard to conquer the World
Hello to everyone again
Having seen the latest news on our league I have to admit to feeling much better
about my own position. Well done and congratulations to Jac, BigG and all of you
who are above me. When you are playing against such good opponents you begin to
understand the need to improve to be top of the table.However I have enjoyed the last 3 months or so on a number of different levels
and maybe this year Godolphin will have a competition for world wide racing, which
I think they have done before this awful pandemic changed the world.Once again stay well
John Well done to everyone getting some nice scores & especially Jac who’s nicely placed overall – very impressive! Thanks also for keeping tabs on our scores and encouraging us all so well.
Thanks Nathan, John and Andre I can’t quite believe I got all those points this week was almost convinced I’d got Walton Street and Dubai Future the wrong way around but Walton Street made it look so easy.
John I’m so pleased this has helped you to get through the Pandemic and know you were yourself unwell for a time.Do hope you are on the mend now. I remember the worldwide Godolphin challenge and like you hope it returns..be assured if it does you will all be first to know.
Anyway we have 3 weeks to ponder how best to win points and move up the Leaderboard. Will be interesting how many Godolphin horses will run that night I know Space Blues is one, possibly Zakouski, Gifts of Gold and Final Song, Walton Street, Lazuli and lots more.
What a night it will be.
See you there..
Thanks for your points update Steve and best of luck.
Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...Thanks for your efforts Jac, maybe I didn’t take it too seriously early on. Know nothing about flat racing so just did a lucky dip and let it roll to begin with and did all my swaps in one hit a couple of weeks back and along with a few bonus points last weekend managed to improve my points total a bit.
Not really sure what’s happening, do we just wait for three weeks now or is there something later this week ?
Hi DG, I can give a little update, I’m sure Jac will be along in a bit. The
competition finishes in 3 weeks, Saturday 27th March, and there are no race
days until then. Having been doing this one for a couple of years I think the
trick is to wait until shortly before the 1st Thursday of the competition, see
what’s running and make your stable up from the available runners, rather than
picking a lucky dip. Pick your best 10m from them and pay particular attention
to the listed and particularly the Group races, where the big points are. If
there aren’t 10 runners that week just pick all Godolphin runners and then fill
in any others you want. There’s only 8 race days and five swaps, so you only have
2 race days where you need to just go with what you have, on all other days always
use your 10 swaps to give you the best chance and being top heavy in the highest
rated races probably makes sense. I don’t know if you spotted it, but Tonge threw
in one that I hadn’t thought of. You can go 3 weeks without changing stable, leaving
2 swaps for the final carnival day. You could load up with all Godolphin horses in
the 1st few races, you’d have to miss 1 race because of the 40 min rule, and then
have a 2nd 10 in the remaining races. It could work but there would need to be a lot
of Godolphin horses running on the last day.I’m sure it will be back again next year, so you will be fully versed up and raring
to go Thanks Graham
You’ve just explained the game perfectly to DG.
I think it took all of us seasoned players a while to get our heads around this game and I know when I first played it just as a lone player I thought you could only swap one horse so ended up having swapped out 5 horses at the end of the competition. So DG basically summing up… use your swaps like gold dust and try and save them for the Big Group races at the end of the competition where you can score big points. Empty out your entire stable each time you use a swap and go for those Bonus Points.
There will be racing at Meydan on Thursdays up to World Cup Night but it will be on the dirt track more of a local meeting as they are now saving the turf for the big Saturday end of Festival. Godolphin won’t have runners at these small meets.
So feet up for a few weeks Diamond and have a rest until..
Saturday 27th March
Dubai World CupSee you there..
Jac Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...Dubai World Cup starts Saturday 27th March and the culmination of our Godolphin Fantasy League competition..
Here is a look at the early decs … there will be 8 races to choose from Races 2-9. ..
https://www.emiratesracing.com/node/3?id=3099
Good luck sorting them out and be careful as some horses may be withdrawn or change races at this early stage.
The 3 day decs will be more informative but I can’t wait to get started..Jac
Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...Time to get those FINAL SWAPS sorted for the last Saturday of our Godolphin Fantasy League TRF Competition ..
Saturday 27th March
DUBAI WORLD CUP NIGHTThere will be 8 Races commencing with…
the Group 2 Godolphin Mile at 12.15pm
So PLEASE ENSURE YOU HAVE YOUR STABLES IN PLACE AT LEAST AN HOUR BEFORE
The site will become very busy and you could miss out on what should be a great chance to gain lots of points for your Stable. No sign of a Bonus Race yet but please feel free to post it up here if you spot it first.
Lastly I’d just like to thank everyone for playing and wish you all good luck on the final day..lots of points to be had and anything could happen.
Jac
FIRST RACE 12.15pm Saturday.
Please don’t be late. Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...On the final day I have ended up with 1300 points.
8750 in total and 54th position
So very happy to be within the top 100.
Will update the Leaderboard once all the scores are in.
It was a shame there was no Bonus Race today and with just 4 Godolphin horses scoring a total of 1600 points it has been difficult to make up ground.
Look forward to the scores coming in later..Jac
Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...Looks like I got 1,600 pts today Jac! Finished on 7,930 and a final rank of 148
Congrats on making the top 100! and thanks for keeping track of this for us.
Stay Safe Everyone
Hello
I managed to include all the four horses who scored points on
Saturday Afternoon with my final swap. Spent most of the morning
looking on the website for news of a Bonus Race sadly to no avail.
Still scored 1600 points, making a total of 7710 and a Ranking of 186.Hoping there is a summer competition in the pipeline and it generates
as much interest as this one did through a difficult time.All the best to everyone
Managed to pull of my “cunning plan” and use both swaps today so had all Godolphin runners covered. So got 1600 points, but can’t even put it down to any skill at selection! Worth bearing in mind for future competitions though. Now on 7890 points (161st). Still can’t believe that they couldn’t be bothered to run a bonus race today of all days but certainly echo John’s hopes for another competition for this season. Well done anyone who got top points on merit and to Jac for making the top 100.
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