DTers Road to the Roses Contest

[lemoncrush]

Originally Posted by IrishofNDMan

can someone who has done this before fill me in a little, is it hard to manage and keep up on?

It requires much less thought and homework than the TVG contest.
You just pick 10 horses on the derby trail, 2 jockeys and 2 trainers.
Once you confirm your stable, those are the selections that you keep for the entire contest.
The only management required, is that you need to keep 5 horses active each week, so every Friday just make sure any horses you have running that weekend are on the active list in your stable.

[Swap Fliparoo]

Also there are two drafts later on; the first for 2 additional horses, the second for 2 or 3 or 4, i can't remember, it's changed over the years.

[ManilaRose]

Originally Posted by Swap Fliparoo

Also there are two drafts later on; the first for 2 additional horses, the second for 2 or 3 or 4, i can't remember, it's changed over the years.

Yeah, this year you can add 2 in the first and 3 in the second, or you can skip the first and add 5 in the second.

[lemoncrush]

Originally Posted by ManilaRose

Yeah, this year you can add 2 in the first and 3 in the second, or you can skip the first and add 5 in the second.

Ahh, thanks for reminding me. Forgot all about the drafting of horses later on.

[ddthetide]

this is the fourth year i've played. never won anything but my goal is just score more points each year. last year was my best so far.

[slotdirt]

I signed up, took the usual suspects (Any Given, Hard Spun, Great Hunter, No Biz, etc.) and threw in a couple of longer shots that look to be running some of these earlier preps such as the Southwest. We'll see how that works out for me. Incidentally, I tried to find some of the favorites in either the Borderland or the Turf Paradise Derby, and Tie West, Another Brother, a bunch of the others, they're just not nominated I'm guess.

I went with Going Ballistic instead.