DTers Road to the Roses Contest

[zippyneedsawin]

Originally Posted by ManilaRose

The Road to the Roses website is now up and it says coming soon. The official 2007 Oaks and Derby pages are now up as well.

thanks for the heads up, I'd had just given up on that.

[lemoncrush]

You can now go and build your stable!

It might be wise to wait until later in the week when entries are confirmed for the stakes races this weekend.

[IrishofNDMan]

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

[IrishofNDMan]

has any member of this every won one of the prizes in the contest before?

[SniperSB23]

Originally Posted by IrishofNDMan

has any member of this every won one of the prizes in the contest before?

I won prizes in the Arlington Million one but haven't won anything in the Roadfortheroses contest.

[paisjpq]

Originally Posted by IrishofNDMan

has any member of this every won one of the prizes in the contest before?

someone that is a member here came in second or third last year...I can't remember who...maybe stevepopyak????

[stevepopyak]

My brother Ed took 3rd last year, he's also a DT'er but rarely posts. He actually had the lead going into the Derby and did have Barbaro and Prado, but failed to activate Bluegrass Cat or he probably would have won. The guys that passed him had the top 3 Derby finishers in their stable (and activated) and also Prado as their jockey and Matz as their trainer. Still got some nice prizes including a Gateway computer system and a bunch of Derby stuff. Good Luck.

[cal828]

Anybody know whether there will be a Pick 6 Challenge this year? Looked at the Uber Schedule, but did not see it, but I think they left it off last year too and added it a couple of months before the Derby.

[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.