Feature: Breeders' Cup Nominations

[Shanthi]

Breeders’ Cup Nominations are live. (Or rather, qualifications are live, nominating is not yet live.)

On your horse’s page, you can see Nominations tab.

This shows all the horses your horse could run in, as well as their rank. Horses are ranked by # of stakes wins, # of stakes places (seconds or thirds), # of allowance wins, and then points.

Hovering over the race name or the “i” icon will show you the requirements for that race (age, gender if applicable, surface, distance if applicable).

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You can see all the qualifiers for a given race via the Race Schedules page > Actions > Breeders’ Cup Qualifiers

Clicking on a given race will expand and show all the qualified + nominated horses (note that it doesn’t care who owns the horse, so I still need to separate out the FF-owned horses).

You can see that it shows horses who are tied by record. I haven’t fully decided how I’m going to handle ties when I lock down the top 20 eligible for entry (which would be before entries open - probably 1 week out). I’m thinking it’ll tie-break by # of starts (fewer being better), and after that pick random horses.

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You can see your horse’s ranking even if they’re not nominated, or if they have a late nomination for next year onward. (As mentioned above, nominations are not built yet so you can’t do a late or supplemental nomination.)

[Shanthi]

Baby nominations are live.

If you have eligible babies (e.g. their sire was BC nominated when they were bred), you’ll see the option in your stable Actions page

All of your babies will show up, even the ones who aren’t eligible (their sire wasn’t BC nominated)

You can select a subset of babies to nominate

Once you no longer have eligible babies the option in your stable page is gone, but you can see the nominated status on each horse’s page.

[Shanthi]

Stud nominations are live, though I think only @Andy will care as the deadline for existing studs was back in February (unless I missed another retirement-to-stud lately).

You can see that your stud is/is not nominated on their Bookings page

To nominate, go to the Nominations tab and click Nominate and confirm

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Mare owners: You can also see that a stud is/is not nominated when selecting them for booking.

[Andy]

Thanks Shanthi - funny enough I thought of this last night, wondered how or when it was needed

[Shanthi]

Supplemental nomination is live (which I think finishes off Breeders’ Cup stuff).

Next to each race where a horse has a ranking, you’ll see the Supplement button. I’ve adjusted the fee to be 5% of the purse, so you essentially pay the entry fee twice, rather than almost 3x.

Once you’ve submitted a supplemental nomination, it will show next to the given race, and you won’t have the option to do any other supplemental nominations. Also, your horse will show up on the qualification list.