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Thursday, September 14, 2006

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New enhancements for Getminted owners!

A few new enhancements were introduced earlier this week, many of which were sparked by requests from members where improvements had been suggested. Most of these enhancements are in the form of added filters or icons to current pages. The details are as follows:

The ‘My Stable’ Page

- We have added a 4-7yr old horse filter to the ‘Age’ option.

- Some new icons under the ‘Status’ column include a greyed out A for when a horse is "In Auction", a greyed out N when a horse is "Nominated" and a Red triangle when a horse is "Pending".

- New Horse Filter options include some nifty options under ‘Status’ such as ‘No Alumites’, ‘Nominated’, ‘Not Nominated’ and ‘Pending in 24hrs’.

- On the left of the horse filter a "Total stabling fees paid this month:" item has been added which will indicate what your stable has paid so far for the current month. If your stable has reached its cap of $100 for the month, the "Pending in 24hrs" filter option will not appear in the filter under the ‘Status’ drop down list to filter on.

- Horses with a $0 stabling fee and horses who's stabling fee will become due before the end of the month after the $100 cap has been reached, will not have the ‘Pending in 24hrs’ yellow triangle displayed in the status column. They will also not be displayed when filtering on ‘Pending in 24hrs’.

Another ‘Basket’ Case

- Only ticked items are checked against your balance.

- You can add more than one nomination for the same horse on the same day in your basket. This is useful, for example, if you have nominated your horse for the 6am and 8am race and the 6am race does not run because of insufficient runners, the 8am race is then still in your basket for you to confirm. If the 6am race does run the 8am race will be removed at 7am when the race closes for nominations.

- If you have an error message and change your ticks and confirm your purchases and then press "back" on your internet browser you will get a "Warning, Page has Expired" message. We therefore included copy and recommend not using "Back" on the Basket pages but to use the "View Basket" or icon at the top of the page.


Nominating via the Categories Or Race Calendar Pages

- A new status filter has been added which now gives you the options to filter for ‘Active’, ‘Pending’ or ‘All’ horses in your stable that are eligible for the selected race or category.

Phew, did you get all that!

For all tonight's top Getminted racing tips please click on read more......



Heathrow - 8:12 - 28/1

Wow, massive odds here for a horse who was once bought by the Golden Glory racing stable for £255. Since his £76 move to current owners Asturteam in January of this year the 7 year old colt has mixed good runs with bad with alarming regularity. Still in the twilight of his succesful career Heathrow has earned over £2,600 and has impressed at all tracks and on all types of going. He was well beaten in his last race and is due a big run, hopefully tonight will be the night. Good each way option.

Miss behavin - 8:48 - 7/1

Last Sunday this 4 year old fillie finally got back to winning ways with a victory in Australia. While she had won previously at the end of August a run of poor results must have made the Guaybanex stable worry slightly. The stable itself is fast approaching it's 500th win and they'll be keeping fingers crossed that Miss behavin can follow the script tonight and run well in the USA. In 82 runs the black girl has won in 25 and been placed in 32. A win or place tonight would carry on the latest upturn in form.

Stripper - 9:36 - 9/2

I backed this girl recently and she didn't let me down and so I think the Dommo trained fillie will deliver again in this Allowance race for juvenille fillies. A lover of the muddy going the 2 year old has been very unlucky not to have picked up a win. On the 19th of August she finished second in the USA by just half a length and has peppered the winning line ever since. With 4 placings out of her 8 runs so far the best is yet to come from the stripper! How often have we heard that said!