Class Project to Design Race Meet

[ALostTexan]

So I am currently taking a racing secretary class at the University of Arizona. One of my projects, actually one of the biggest projects, is to design a 33 day race meet from the bottom up. We are basically given simulcasting numbers for money, average handle, and approximate horse population and have to go from there, plus it is a mixed meet, so we have to figure in QH's and try to keep everyone happy.

I have to say, this has been fun, but very, very time consuming, and this is just for a mythical race meet over 6 weeks or so. I do have alot more respect for racing secretaries everywhere for the work they put into releasing a condition book after the project, too.

Just wanted to vent a little frustration on the day before the project is due...

Originally Posted by ALostTexan

So I am currently taking a racing secretary class at the University of Arizona. One of my projects, actually one of the biggest projects, is to design a 33 day race meet from the bottom up. We are basically given simulcasting numbers for money, average handle, and approximate horse population and have to go from there, plus it is a mixed meet, so we have to figure in QH's and try to keep everyone happy.

I have to say, this has been fun, but very, very time consuming, and this is just for a mythical race meet over 6 weeks or so. I do have alot more respect for racing secretaries everywhere for the work they put into releasing a condition book after the project, too.

Just wanted to vent a little frustration on the day before the project is due...

Do they give you a list of prospective trainers and stalls they want? What type of horses they will be bringing? If so I would like to know what info you were given... sounds cool.

OOPs. Ok I read what they gave you.
Do they give you the level of the type of horses
that are coming in? I would like to see that info.

Oops

[ALostTexan]

He gives us some very vague numbers of horses in the stalls, so we have to calculate the number of races per class level according to stalls, and design our own claiming/allowance levels.

The instructor is a former Racing Secretary at some big tracks, so he is a good resource, and allows those with limited racing experience to get the basics and those with some decent knowledge of the sport to expand and make it as fun as we like.

I have definately learned that there is alot of stuff that you would never think about that goes into making a condition book.

[GBBob]

Originally Posted by ALostTexan

He gives us some very vague numbers of horses in the stalls, so we have to calculate the number of races per class level according to stalls, and design our own claiming/allowance levels.

The instructor is a former Racing Secretary at some big tracks, so he is a good resource, and allows those with limited racing experience to get the basics and those with some decent knowledge of the sport to expand and make it as fun as we like.

I have definately learned that there is alot of stuff that you would never think about that goes into making a condition book.

Such as?

Sounds like a cool project

[Cannon Shell]

Bribe accepting 101?

[GBBob]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Bribe accepting 101?

That must be a Sr level class that perhaps you teach?

or at least took

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Bribe accepting 101?

He will have to have the 2 or 3 trainers
with the largest number of horses help him.
So that should be a part of the project.
He should get automatic input from them.
Would make the project a little easier.

[ALostTexan]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Bribe accepting 101?

Only when it comes to stalls, but either way it is more about accepting them without notice...