Horse Racing Bonus & Awards Program - Want Your Share of Up to 20 Million Community Game Points? Read More

We talked about it last month, we hinted that we'll be implementing special awards and bonus programs for all of our virtual top champion horses. The program has been designed and is now being developed. Expected launch date is April 1st. Our community is now large enough to warrant this massive program. Not only is this a great way to get our top players and their horses recognized with special badges and awards, but the community bonus payouts will be enormous.

Up to 20 million community game points will be given away quarterly. The distribution of these points will fall into multiple categories. There will be six categories for 2-year-olds, 3 for 3-year-olds and 1 for 4-year-olds and up. Every quarter, the horses that have acquired the top position in each category will be awarded the badges, the bonus community game points and special recognition in our Hall of Fame. The categories are as follows:

First for 2-year-olds, the most races won during the quarter - male (this includes tournament qualification races, Breeders' Cup final races and insta-tournament races).

Most races won during the quarter -2 year -olds- female (this includes tournament qualification races, Breeders' Cup final races and insta-tournament races).

The next one is most community game points earned during the quarter for 2-year-old males. (This includes any bonuses associated with those horses, such as VIP bonuses, jackpot and super-jackpot bonuses.)

Then, the most community game points earned during the quarter for 2-year-old females. (This includes any bonuses associated with those horses, such as VIP bonuses, jackpot and super-jackpot bonuses.)

Then, the most race earnings during the quarter for males. (Race earnings are monies earned during general trainer tournaments while qualifying for the Breeders' Cup final races.)

Then, the most race earnings during the quarter for females. (Race earnings are monies earned during general trainer tournaments while qualifiying for the Breeders' Cup final races.)

For the 3-year-old horses, the above information is exactly the same except there is no breakdown between male and female - just a single category for each totaling three awards and three bonus payouts.

For older horses, 4-years-old and up, there is one award for most community points earned by any older horse during the quarter. Those earnings do include VIP bonuses associated with the tournament - again, jackpot, super-jackpot and insta-tournament earnings, as well.

This program takes our game to another level of excitement and will allow players to truly benefit when they have a top horse in the right category. The bonuses will be enhanced when a player is a VIP and further enhanced if the horse is partially-nominated or fully-nominated. We estimated that the minimum guaranteed payouts per quarter will be somewhere between 7 and 10 million community game points and the maximum payouts per quarter will be 20 million game points.

We're finally at a point, between the influx of new players and the substantially increased amount of breeding that is going on, where we can start implementing some of these bigger bonus programs. As the player base continues to increase and breeding continues to increase, these bonuses will also increase. We would love to get these quarterly bonuses to 50 million community game points over the next 12 months.

But, it just keep getting better. In addition to this quarterly bonus program, we're going to be implementing our semi-annual awards program starting in June. The difference is, the semi-annual awards programs not only include special recognition in the community and special badges, but actual physical trophies and other special gifts that will be announced during the month of April. The quarterly bonus program is determined by straight statistics. The semi-annual program will be driven by the community. The nominations will be decided by a community panel and then all community members will be given the opportunity to vote. Call it our version of horse racing's Eclipse Awards. There is another component to these award programs and that will come into place over the next two weeks when some other announcements are made. In the end, it will all tie together, making the overall program extremely exciting and rewarding.

Have a great weekend!
- Puddles