Never was so much disruption regularly caused to so many by so few.
SEASON 23
Jan 2nd 2009: Filters do not include 2009.
Jan 2nd 2009: New category of Gr1 race (A High Division for horses with more than 14 wins) is set up incorrectly with all 34 jockeys being used instead of the usual top 17 only for Gr1 races.
Dec 8th 2008: Wins from the races on the 5th that were not updated on the system until the next day were not added to the Awards for those Stables.
Dec 7th 2008: Goings for Dec 10th unavailable until remedial action is taken.
Dec 6th 2008: Goings for Dec 9th unavailable.
Dec 5th 2008: Late evening race is run but the system does not update until gone midnight causing an owner to miss the chance of training after the race when horse flipped.
Dec 4th 2008: Qualifiers for January Monthly Challenge Series set to 2850 instead of 1800.
Dec 3rd 2008: Auto-train is once again not functioning correctly with some horses being trained and some not.
Dec 1st 2008: A couple of races from the final day of Season 22 had their times altered and were re-scheduled to run after midnight. The races ran successfully but for the third time in the last four Seasons the Age Change process has been problematic with the Age Change process being delayed and Auto-Train running before it.
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SEASON 22
Nov 27th 2008: Juvenile Stayers Consolations for Colts changed to Canada but going still shows as Good (the original going from Australia).
Nov 26th 2008: Juvenile Stayers Consolation races for Colts are programmed to be run at Australia when the Final is at Canada.
Nov 24th 2008: Juvenile Stayers Consolation for Colts programmed at a different conversion rate to those of the Fillies, Instance #1 prizefund is only £510.00 as opposed to £620.00 for Fillies race.
Nov 17th 2008: Inbox denotes a message is waiting when there is nothing new to be read. 'Ghost' disappears next day but another owner then reports the same.
Nov 17th 2008: Owner reports a horse has been nominated into a race but was not done so by him. Similar problem is also reported by same owner next day as well.
Nov 14th 2008: Owner reportedly manages to train a horse through 2 cycles on the first day by applying Vitamins when @ 92% that caused the horse to flip.
Nov 3rd 2008: Gr2 WCD race programmed for today instead of 30th November.
Oct 22nd 2008: If a horse is trained to just below 90% and then Vitamins are applied the horse is not allocated a Grade or Class.
Oct 16th 2008: Owner reports on sister site that horses with shoe option set to 'Multi' that later have this changed to 'Remove' automatically apply a new set of shoes on expiry. Option has to be changed to 'Single' prior to selecting 'Remove'.
Oct 2nd 2008: New exchange rate applied today and as per usual knock-on effects include outstanding Stabling Fees being increased by the full difference instead of this being proportionately applied.
Sep 23rd 2008: Owner reports they can view the result of a race that was originally scheduled to be run at 06:15 even though race has been made into an EB race and is now scheduled to run at 18:56.
Sep 14th 2008: System decides at close of Auction that a horse has been purchased by an under-bidder and correspondingly moved the horse to the wrong stable and has deducted the final sale price from both the correct bidder and the under-bidders accounts (Seller has only received one payment though). Under-bidder now has a negative balance in their account.
Sep 2nd 2008: Distances of Qualifiers and Finals of September Monthly Challenge Series for Fillies changed despite having been programmed for some time. Distances are finally reverted back to their original specifications on Sep 5th although some Qualifiers already have entrants and cannot be modified.
Aug 30th 2008: Consolation Monthly Challenge set to 1000m instead of 3200m.
Aug 1st 2008: Generous new incentive where one set of free alumites is tied to every horse purchased from the Sales Ring proves even more generous than expected as the system not only generates free set of alumites tied to the purchased horse but also adds another pair to the stock levels for use on any horse.
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SEASON 21
Jul 31st 2008: Various problems with Gr2 WCD races with some races either not closing on time, missing sponsorship or showing incorrect prize funds.
Jul 28th 2008: Races not running on time for a while in the early afternoon.
Jul 27th 2008: Races for the first day of Finals are compressed into 50 minutes resulting in hardly any time betweeen races.
26th Jul 2008: Still cannot nominate into a Stakes race through normal means if horse has already raced in a Rated race earlier the same day.
25th Jul 2008: Some owners report only partial payments of promotional credits instead of full amount due.
24th Jul 2008: Promotional article for Season 22 contains errors in sponsorship amounts and (the usual) weight penalties for wins in Challenge Series.
24th Jul 2008: Promotional credits not allocated as per the timescale of the advertisement.
23rd Jul 2008: Nunthorpe Fillies Final draw has changed from original line-up. Sprinters Challenge for Juvenile Colts is similarly affected. After initial responses indicating that the original draws were in error it eventually transpires that these were erroneously overwritten and are later reverted back to the original draws.
22nd Jul 2008: Race Viewer shows differently in-running for the same race to different owners.
21st Jul 2008: Nunthorpe Fillies Consolation race specified as for Colts in error.
18th Jul 2008: Running styles of horses changed in Race Viewer with no notice. Is finally admitted on Jul 25th.
17th Jul 2008: Race Viewer proves problematic and appears to have changed Font when it does load. Possibly as a result of a Java upgrade.
15th Jul 2008: Inbox cannot send to a stable that contains less than 3 letters in it's name.
15th Jul 2008: Class D Rated race rejected due to it being programmed as having no weight allowances.
6th Jul 2008: June award for top win% for a horse originally given to a horse that raced predominantly in same-stable races.
21st Jun 2008: Gr1 race on sister site has bonus changed from cash to credits.
19th Jun 2008: Class A Rated Race on sister site runs without weight allowances.
20th May 2008: Rated Race is declined despite there being 3 horses entered.
11th May 2008: Ratings in Rated Racing are dropping below the threshold as set out in the guide to Rated Racing.
6th May 2008: Weather for Hong Kong on 8th May shows as both Firm and Muddy.
3rd May 2008: As yet unpurchased future Nominations periodically disappear from My Basket. Items later reappear.
1st May 2008: Although I can run my stable (add/remove Tack, Train etc..) according to traXide I am not actually logged into the site.
28th Apr 2008: Barrier History in Horse Detail page is not in same order that Barriers were run for some horses.
27th Apr 2008: Auction History defaulting to showing details for the Auction held on 13th April instead of Auction just closed.
24th Apr 2008: Weather for America on 24th/25th April shows as both Fast & Yielding, weather for Dubai on 25th shows as both Muddy & Yielding.
18th Apr 2008: After the deficiency in the Nunthorpe Sprint Qualifiers for Colts being brought to the attention of the Race Programmer, a Qualifier for July 7th has been added. There is still no Qualifier scheduled for June 16th though.
17th Apr 2008: Three year old horses bought from the Sales Ring are not being given Ratings and Classes.
17th Apr 2008: Cesarewitch Qualifier for Fillies on May 24th scheduled as 2400 race, all other Cesarewitch Qualifiers (both for Colts and Fillies) are 2850/3200 races and there has never been a Cesarewitch Qualifier over less than 2850 before.
17th Apr 2008: traXide raceviewer still does not work properly.
13th Apr 2008: If a horse that includes a single-quote (') in it's name is added to 'My Horse Tracker' and it is entered in Auction the 'In Auction' link does not work.
6th Apr 2008: Gr2 Claimers only programmed for Tuesdays and Thursdays where these used to run on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. This Season there are only 299 Gr2 Claimers scheduled in total as opposed to 686 in Season 20. The number of scheduled Ungraded Claimers has risen from 1486 to 2253 in the same two Seasons.
4th Apr 2008: Owner reportedly has a nomination for a 2400 race in his basket but when using the link in the basket to go directly to the race they report that a 1400 race for the same time is shown.
3rd Apr 2008: The 'Auction that never was' is closed manually but horses with bids on them are honoured even though there should have been no Auction in the first place and the whole community did not partake.
2nd Apr 2008: A number of other race categories are also missing from the Category drop-down menu on the Race Program page: Level Weight 2Y C - Gr2, Level Weight 2Y F - Gr2, Special Advance Allowance 4-7Y CF - Gr2. These races also appear to have been completely omitted from the race schedule.
2nd Apr 2008: Progress 3Y F Gr2 races totally omitted from the schedule (also not in the Category drop-down on the Race Program page).
1st Apr 2008: Auction opens a little early (not due to open until 11th April).
1st Apr 2008: The Nunthorpe Sprint Final for Colts contains only 1 Qualifier over 1000 out of a total of 14 races and no Qualifier at all on either 16th June or 7th July.
1st Apr 2008: Both Colts and Fillies Ladbrokes Monthly Challenge series contain no scheduled races over 1000 or 1200. Both the April and June Finals are over the same distance (2200) yet strangely half of the Qualifiers are over 2850/3200 and none are over 1600/1800. The first Qualifier for the Colts July Final is scheduled for June 9th - 18 days prior to the June Final.
1st Apr 2008: B & C Division 2Y CF (3-5 wins) scheduled for 2nd and 3rd days of the season even though it is impossible for any juveniles to meet the race criteria.
1st Apr 2008: Absolutely no G2 4-7y Claimers programmed for the first week of the season. 2yo and 3yo Claimers only scheduled from 4th April.
1st Apr 2008: Auto-train runs prior to age Change so affected horses trained at previous age (still reminiscent of Season 20).
1st Apr 2008: Horses able to be bought and trained even though Age Change has not yet occurred (strangely reminiscent of Season 20 so far).
1st Apr 2008: Duplicate races scheduled within minutes of each other in the Race Program (a common seasonal occurrence).
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SEASON 20
30th Mar 2008: Timezone for Republic of Ireland on clock shows time the same as GMT but ROI changes in tandem with BST.
29th Mar 2008: Despite a change to the Exchange Rate for a strengthening US Dollar (the base currency of the site) nominations in GBP for Season 21 cost less than comparable nominations in Season 20 resulting in it being that little bit harder to break-even with horses as Tack/Stabling will be more expensive.
28th Mar 2008: Horse finishing 4th (10%) in a race showing £12.50 prizemoney only awarded £1.24.
27th Mar 2008: Site experiences problems in the morning hours with horses unable to be nominated into races.
26th Mar 2008: Challenge Tipping competition mistakenly set to only allow one entry per IP address.
26th Mar 2008: Bonus Credits earned under the end-of-season Promotion being underpaid on both sites. Comments by owners would make it likely that Rated Races were not counted even though they were stated as being valid.
25th Mar 2008: Promotional item for Season 21 contains mistakes such as intimating that owning more than 1 stable is acceptable ("{edited} is convinced you will love virtual horseracing so much that they are giving you your first stable absolutely free."), weight penalties for Challenge races ("Weight: 3lbs per win", "Weight: 6lbs per win (120lbs -140lbs)" and "Weight: WFA (weight for age)" for some 3yo events) and conflicting details for World Challenge Day ("±$10,000 World Challenge Day – 18 bonus races for the other challengers, including GR2!" and "6 Events over Dirt and Turf, 3 for each sex.").
24th Mar 2008: traXide viewer not showing races (not for the first time).
24th Mar 2008: More problems with races - results not shown and race unable to be viewed.
22nd Mar 2008: Consolations for the Fillies St Leger Challenge scheduled for Dubai but the Final is at Hong Kong. The reverse mistake also shows for the Colts St Leger Challenge.
21st Mar 2008: Race Results not being shown for races that have run.
21st Mar 2008: Challenge Consolation instances all set at the same prize-money instead of decreasing amounts.
21st Mar 2008: Consolations for the Colts Sprint Challenge scheduled for England but the Final is at America.
21st Mar 2008: Horse shows as having £0.00 Stabling Fees owing but is flagged as "Pending in 24hrs: £0.02".
20th Mar 2008: Nominations made through traXide take a few minutes to actually show in traXide race information.
20th Mar 2008: Site experiences problems in the morning hours with horses unable to be nominated into races.
19th mar 2008: Reports on sister-site that the 500 Run Bonus is not being paid automatically and that counters are now starting to show negative figures for the number of races remaining until the award is reached.
18th Mar 2008: WCD race scheduled with £48.00 entry fee instead of £9.60.
16th Mar 2008: Grade Filter in My Recent Results does not differentiate properly between Non-graded and Grade 1 races.
10th Mar 2008: Game Stats unavailable to allow fix for problem, when stats come back the Wins/Runs% is completely out of order.
9th Mar 2008: Auction does not close despite inactivity and a further bid is made on a horse that should have already been sold. RC post 'official' data which shows no actual bids for 8 minutes but twenty-six "£0.00 Auction Bid Adjustment" transactions during that time. RC finally admit there is a known problem on 19th Mar 2008 @ 16:44!
8th Mar 2008: Only 1 owner can add a review to a race.
7th mar 2008: G2 WCD races for Fillies scheduled as Non-Graded instead of G2.
6th Mar 2008: Solution to exchange rate error only resolves issue for active horses that should have zero Stabling Fees. Does not address active horses that will not race enough to negate Stabling Fees nor Pending horses.
6th Mar 2008: Top Owners by Wins/Runs% in Game Stats does not show a correct Top 100.
5th Mar 2008: Awards page shows as updated but values have not been updated.
4th Mar 2008: New exchange rate applied to base Stabling Fee ($2) but not reductions (races already run).
3rd Mar 2008: Top Owners by Wins/Runs% has 2 'Places' columns.
25th Feb 2008: Scheduled races from 16:21 to 17:01 were delayed.
25th Feb 2008: Horses could not be trained for a couple of hours.
25th Feb 2008: Races could not be viewed on TraXide for a few hours (quite a common occurrence).
24th Feb 2008: Auction close delayed despite there being no further bids.
11th Feb 2008: Top Owner Win% award given to the wrong player as only the Top 100 by wins/prizemoney were looked at to determine winner.
6th Feb 2008: HP option not allowing nomination into a Stakes Race on same day as having run in a Rated Race.
5th Feb 2008: Class B horse runs in Class C race due to nomination prior to change in Class.
3rd Feb 2008: Barrier History shows incorrect order when sorting by Lengths.
2nd Feb 2008: Rated Races removed from traXide as they were causing 'technical' problems and apparently should never have been on traXide in the first place.
21st Jan 2008: Cannot nominate a horse into a Stakes Race if already entered into a Rated Race on the same day.
20th Jan 2008: Cannot nominate a horse into a Rated Race if already entered into a Stakes Race on the same day.
14th Jan 2008: Oaks standings not updated following the Qualifiers due to them being moved to an earlier time.
14th Jan 2008: Rated Race statistics showing incorrectly for horses that have won Claimers.
14th Jan 2008: Race Program not loading.
14th Jan 2008: Top Of The Game in Game Stats shows the owner at the top of each current page instead of overall.
12th Jan 2008: Horse wins Rated Race and still runs in EB Maiden despite other Rated Race winners being ineligible for Maidens.
11th Jan 2008: Horse is given a rating of 89 with no class and it is now officially below the minimum rating possible.
5th Jan 2008: Horse winning a Rated Race can enter Qualifiers even though both systems are supposed to be 'independent' and Rated Racing is only a 'beta test' system (albeit on a Live platform).
2nd Jan 2008: Financial amounts rounded differently on Race Results and Credit History pages.
1st Jan 2008: No 2008 filter on My Recent Results.
31st Dec 2007: Sister site notices that Rated Race results are impacting weights in Allowance Stakes Races.
30th Dec 2007: Auction reserve and bid price are currency-converted differently. $21.86 may show as £10.49 but a bid of £10.49 may only calculate to $21.85.
30th Dec 2007: Alumites in stock behaving erratically.
29th Dec 2007: Apply Tack page defaults changed without notice. Alumites being applied to ALL horses as default.
29th Dec 2007: Nominations page for mixed-Class horse (e.g. B/C 120) does not show nominations for both Classes, only the higher Class.
27th Dec 2007: Strange results occur on both sites. It is stated that results are correct but jockey allocations shown are in error. 'Correct' jockey details are never released.
27th Dec 2007: Raceviewer shows different result to Results page. Raceviewer for that race subsequently disabled.
22nd Dec 2007: Not all free horses being given a Class.
20th Dec 2007: Horse details in Claiming races on Buy A Horse pages show older horses as having raced in Rated Races even though there are none for older generations.
17th Dec 2007: Ratings adjustments incorrect for a number of scenarios.
16th Dec 2007: A small number of recent 2yo purchases remained ungraded.
16th Dec 2007: Not strictly a glitch but a scheduled service maintenance took place during the closing stages of the Auction.
14th Dec 2007: Currency changes delay the opening of the Auction.
9th Dec 2007: Freebie horse(s) being graded G1. Example is Monsun.
8th Dec 2007: Supplemented horse indicators being carried through to the Apply Tack page as part of the horse name.
7th Dec 2007: Newbie races being included in Game Stats again. These were removed a few months ago.
7th Dec 2007: Rated Race winners are ineligible for Maiden Stakes Races despite the systems being 'independent'.
5th Dec 2007: Rated Race/Claimer wins are being added to the number of Stakes Race wins when determining eligibilty for Stakes Races.
4th Dec 2007: 'Grade 1' filter on Results page includes Rated Races.
1st - 3rd Dec 2007: See 'Teething Problems'.