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$500 Cash to the Winner - Free Entry - Starts 26th December 2010

2006-07 Winner - Ron B
2007-08 Winner - John B

This competition is based on the rules to the annual Hastings 'Punter of the Year' competition. The differences are :

1) The contestants are not playing with real money but with imaginary cyber-monopoly-money.
2) The competition is not held on one day but is spread over 10 specified punting days. Competitors nominate ONE race at a New Zealand gallops meeting from each of the days and can bet on THAT RACE ONLY.
3) Other variations as outlined in the rules below.

The Rules
There is a limit of 60 contestants. Only people who live in New Zealand will be accepted into the competition. Contestants must firstly be a member of the RaceBase Punters Forum on this website. Join the forum here. Then send an e-mail to harrop.nga@xtra.co.nz stating you wish to join the summer competition and specifying your real name, the town or city you live in and the username you have joined the forum under. Your real name will not be used anywhere on the forum (unless you use your real name as your username on the forum, which you are entitled to do), but the winner of the competition will receive a non transferable cheque of $500 made out to the real name stated in the e-mail. There can only be one entry to the competition per person and one entry per e-mail address. E-mail addresses I receive for entries must be real addresses (xtra, clear, paradise etc), not hotmail, gmail or yahoo (or equivalent) accounts. You can place your bets and keep track of the competition on the RaceBase Punters Forum here : http://racebase.freeforums.org/racebase-summer-carnival-competition-t48.html

The competition starts  on 26th December 2010 and ends on 26th February 2011. Contestants have $1500 of cyber-monopoly-money as their initial bank in the competition. They can spend any amount up to their total bank on ONE race on each of the specified punting days. They must bet at least $150 in total each day. Therefore anyone with a total betting bank of less than $150 is eliminated from the competition. Betting is on New Zealand gallops racing only. If, for any reason, after the first day, a contestant misses a day, then the contestant is not eliminated, but an automatic $200 is deducted from his total.

You can bet on win, place, trifecta, quinella, treble or double or a combination of any of these. In the case of trebles and doubles, the contestants nominated race must be one leg of the treble or double. A contestant can make any combination of any of the allowable bet types within the nominated race. He can bet on more than one horse if he wishes (within the race). The contestant is allowed to take multiple doubles or trebles and may even anchor a horse in one of the other non-nominated race legs. No other bet types are allowed (eg no Pick 6's, quaddies, first fours, fixed odds or all-ups).

Contestants must place their bets anytime BEFORE 12 NOON ON THE DAY OF THE RACE OR AT LEAST ONE HOUR BEFORE THE RACE IF IT IS TO START BEFORE 1PM.

Punting Days are as follows :
Day 1 : 26th December 2010 (Boxing Day)
Day 2 : 1st January 2011 (New Years Day)
Day 3 : 8th January 2011 (Saturday)
Day 4 : 15th January 2011 (Saturday)
Day 5 : 22nd January 2011 (Saturday)
Day 6 : 29th January 2011 (Saturday)
Day 7 : 5th February 2011 (Saturday)
Day 8 : 12th February 2011 (Saturday)
Day 9 : 19th February 2011 (Saturday)
Day 10 : 26th February 2011 (Saturday)

Scratchings
Competitors must take note of scratchings. In the case of normal scratchings (ie those made before 7.30 am on race morning), a contestant may replace that bet with another, as long as it is made, on the same or any other race, within the previously mentioned time constraints. If a contestant places a bet on a scratched horse (normal scratching) and doesn't replace it, all the bets placed on the horse will be transferred to the TAB favourite at tote close. If a horse is late-scratched (ie after 8 am on race morning), a contestant will not be penalised. He will receive back any money spent on the horse. He may also, if he chooses, replace the bet with another on the same or any other race, as long as it is placed within the time constraints. If a horse is late scratched in the 2nd leg of a treble or double or the 3rd leg of a treble, those bets will be transferred to the favourite. Otherwise, if it is the 1st leg, then bets on these two bet types will be refunded for the scratched runners (much the same as the TAB rules). If a meeting is abandoned, contestants will not be penalised. In such cases, the bets are treated as a late scratchings, even if the abandonment is declared before the competitors bets are made.

Disputes
Any disputes regarding bets will be settled by mrracebase and will be decided strictly in accordance of the rules laid out on this page. No correspondence will be entered into, and his decision is final.

Winner
The winner is the contestant who has accumulated the largest bank after racing on the 26th February 2011. He/she will be sent a cheque for $500 made out to the entrant.

E-mail harrop.nga@xtra.co.nz

Good Luck.

Congrats to John B who won the 2007-08 comp in the very last round on an all-up bet on Castlereah at Awapuni.