<\/o:p><\/FONT><\/P>\u00a0<\/FONT><\/o:p><\/P>The goal of the game is to pick a top-three finisher in a pre-selected race each week.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Scoring is based on the horses payoffs (example, your selection finishes second, you score the place payoff).\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Sounds simple, but there are many twists to the game.<\/o:p><\/FONT><\/P>\u00a0<\/FONT><\/o:p><\/P>First, this is a survival game.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>If you fail to pick a top-three finisher, you get a strike.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Get three total strikes during the game, you are out.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>But your accumulated score stays active and you can still win something.\u00a0\u00a0Fancy that.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN>In the second round, there is a method to get back into the game if you are eliminated, which is detailed on the EWC webpage.<\/o:p><\/FONT><\/P>\u00a0<\/FONT><\/o:p><\/P>In the first round of the contest, there were different events that included picking you own horse during a certain weeks, placing bets to multiply (or reduce if you lose) you accumulated score and we even had a week where you had to pick a bottom-three finisher.\u00a0 <\/FONT><\/P>\u00a0<\/FONT><\/o:p><\/P>Prizes include credits to the top three winners and a real simulate horse for the first place finisher!!!!<\/o:p><\/FONT><\/P>\u00a0<\/FONT><\/o:p><\/P>Think ya got what it takes to last 12 weeks?\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The first round there were only two players remaining in the final week.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Come on over to the EWC home page for further details and check out the link to the EWC Survivor Handicapping Contest.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Only takes having one stable at the residency to get into the game!<\/o:p><\/FONT><\/P>\u00a0<\/FONT><\/o:p><\/P>\u00a0<\/FONT><\/o:p><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Do You Have What it Takes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":363,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/363"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}