Planning a campaign

A campaign is a plan: aim a horse at a race in advance and the game checks the plan against the rules, reminds you when entries open, and tidies up after the race.

#Targets

On a horse’s page, or on This week, pin a race as a target. You can aim at any Live race on the published card (the next 24 hours) or at a calendar race up to 28 days ahead: the Feature Qualifiers, the Weekend Feature and the Season Finals. A calendar race can be pinned before it is on the card. Each horse can have up to 5 targets at a time.

A target leaves the plan by itself, with a note, when the horse runs in the race, is scratched from it, can no longer run in it (out of the rating band at its best, too many wins for a maiden, retired, sold) or when entries close without an entry.

#The checks

• Eligibility now: the rating band and conditions, starts left, an injury that runs past the off, and for the Weekend Feature whether the horse has qualified yet.
• Freshness: the peak comes 72 to 120 hours after the last hard work (see Care & condition). A race is hard work too, so each target counts from the one before it.
• Clashes: one Live race per horse per day, and no target inside the hours a race leaves the horse tired (fatigue recovers 12 points an hour, so a race that adds 420 needs 10 hours).
• The entry window: entries open when the race is published on the card (24 hours ahead) and close just before the off.

#Reminders and entering

If the horse isn’t entered yet, your inbox gets one reminder when entries open and one 2 hours before they close. While entries are open, “Enter now” on the target opens the usual entry sheet for that race.