The lead up to ‘The Championships’ and the Autumn Carnival of racing has been intense. We have been some significant players emerge over the past couple of weeks worthy of being picked in your Star Stable team, while there are some serious contenders taking the trip over from New Zealand to contest our best races as well. Race Meeting 1 of Star Stable kicks off this weekend with two $1,000,000 races in Melbourne the races in focus.
What is Star Stable?
Star Stable is a fantasy game for the racing carnival. Your stable requires 10 horses at all times to be selected and you are given two trades per week.
You also need to select a trainer and jockey each week (you can change this every week).
The aim of the game is to win as much prize money as possible while improving the value of your horses to ‘trade up’ to bigger and better ones as the carnival rolls on.
Your main focus is on the horses with the trainer/jockey combo bringing in very little (5% and 10% of prize money) in the comp.. still that is enough to win or lose a league in my opinion.
In race meetings 6 & 7, you have to select a ‘Stable Champion’ who will earn 2 credits per dollar of prize money. What I get from this is the horse is simply like a Supercoach Captain and worth double for the round.
You will also get two WILDCARD trades. These allow you to make a THIRD trade during any trade period.
A horses value will increase if:
Group 1 race: 1st (75k), 2nd (50k), 3rd (50k), 4th (25k), 5th (25k)
Group 2 race: 1st (50k), 2nd (25k), 3rd (25k)
Group 3 race: 1st (50k), 2nd (25k), 3rd (25k)
Listed race: 1st (25k)
*Important: The maximum value a horse will ever reach is 250k*
Why play Star Stable?
With close to 200 league entries in Spring, we gave away $250 to the winner of The Profits league (Code 954934) and will gave away another $250 this Autumn! But our $250 is chump change compared to the main prize for being the number one stable!
The overall prize for the No.1 ‘Star Stable’ in the overall rankings is a Trip for Two to the Durban July Handicap in South Africa! (prize is provided by the website, not us). Pretty cool right?
Which horses should i pick?
Take those blinkers off and choose horses that are not only going to compete to win this weekend.. but will be going onwards to the million dollar races over the following months. If you have 10 horses in your stable who are all competing this weekend, then you are absolutely doing it wrong even though we have quality fields.
Start by looking at the runners for the weekend at Flemington and Warwick Farm. Note how much each race is worth money wise AND what standard of Group race they are. Then head over to your local bookie website and check the prices on each of the runners. Now that you understand which races you are targeting and which horses are favourite, head on over to Punters Paradise and type in the name of the horse you are interested in. My example in the link is Fiorente. On the right-hand-side menu, half-way down the page it will tell you which races Fiorente has been nominated for. You are looking for high value races going forward.
Your stable needs to include horses covering all values. Head on over to your bookie again and look in the Futures/AntePost markets area. Look towards any group race such the Queen Elizabeth Stakes or the Golden Slipper and get the names of the top 4-5 horses in each of these markets. You should be able to get a few of these types of horses for between 25k-75k to fill in the slots down the track. You will get a very good deal on the international runners so it may also be worth looking up these ‘stars’ on The Championships website.
Good luck with your Stable and don’t forget to join us and continue to chat in the banter box at the bottom of our league once you join (Code 954934).
You can sign up to play at www.starstable.com.au.
