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 How The Race Construction Kit Works 
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This is what it says in the Greyhound Manager Manual...

6. The Race Construction Kit

The construction kit can be used to create ‘trial’ races using dogs that you have exported from the main game. You may also enter your dogs you have exported in an online league (to check if any leagues are being run visit the forums (from the website - greyhoundmanager.com).


How online leagues work

At any time there may be on online league for owners of Greyhound Manager in progress. Visit the website for details on how to find and join these leagues. Online leagues work in the following way.

1. You export your best dogs from your game to disk via the dog DATA SCREEN in the game (note that you should always export your dogs when they are in form and their fitness and condition are at maximum).
2. You email your dog files to the ‘league moderator’ who will be responsible for creating race schedules and creating the actual race replay files which you will later download.
3. After the league moderator has run the races he will make REPLAY files available for players to download. You download these replay files and view them (including race card, race replay and form cards) on your PC.

Please note that league moderators will have access to software that enables them to create replay files for you to view that will also include all of the dogs past performance form cards, and lineage details and the replay.

Note: Player owned dogs can be exported from the main game at any point from the DOG DATA screen (see section 5.2.). Exported dogs are stored in the folder: ‘.\EXPORTS\DOGS\*.dog’ and must exist in this folder in order to be imported into a constructed race.

Note that Greyhound Manager exports folder is located in a folder allocated by your operating system. This folder is displayed on the Construction Kit main menu. You will need to browse this folder to locate your exported dogs or to copy a league race to the ‘leagueraces’ folder.


6.1. Constructing a ‘trial’ race

To construct a race using previously exported dogs follow these steps:

1. Make sure all the required dog files exist in the ‘.\EXPORTS\DOGS’ folder.
2. Click the RACE CONSTRUCTION KIT button from the main menu.
3. Click the CREATE A RACE button.
4. The top box contains general race setting such as going and distance. To begin with these will be set to default vales. It’s a good idea to set these before moving on to importing dogs.
5. Next you need to choose the runners for the race. All dogs in the ‘.\EXPORTS\DOGS’ appear in the box to the right of the screen along with the dogs name, the players (trainers name), the dogs age/sex and dogs grading (at the time of exporting).
6. To enter an individual dog click on it’s name (highlighted in yellow). If the dog is eligible to enter the race it will be moved into the race FIELD window to the left of the screen.
7. To select ALL eligible dogs from the list for the race click the SELECT ALL ELIGIBLE RUNNERS button. To clear ALL the selected runners click on the small ‘C’ button below the race FIELD box.
8. When the race field has been constructed satisfactorily then it’s time to run the race. Click the VIEW RACE button.
9. When the race is over the formcard will be displayed. On exiting this screen the user will be returned to the main menu.


6.2. Viewing a ‘league’ replay race

Click on the VIEW A RACE button from the construction kit menu.

Note: If you are emailing or transferring league race files you will have to manually copy the file into the correct folder.

To view a league race replay make sure you have placed the replay file(s) in the ‘.\exports\leagueraces\’ folder (in the folder you installed Greyhound Manager).

Select a race to view by clicking on it’s title in the STORED RACE FILES table.

The selected races race card will now be displayed in the SELECTED RACE FIELD. The race card is a similar format to race cards within the game. League races can include past performances for the runners. If so you will be able to click on the FORM field to reveal the selected dogs form cards. League races may also include the dogs Lineage (if the dog was player bred) – if the dog has a small red ‘L’ icon preceding it’s name you may click this to reveal the dogs lineage details.

Note: league races may have trainer comments attached. A small white ‘N’ icon next to the race file name in the STORED RACE FILES table indicates there are trainer comments for this race. To view these comments you simply move the mouse over the trainers name in the SELECTED RACE FIELD table and the comments will appear.

Click the VIEW RACE button to watch the race or to just view the form card click the VIEW FORMCARD button.


Note that Greyhound Manager exports folder is located in a folder allocated by your operating system. This folder is displayed on the Construction Kit main menu. You will need to browse this folder to locate your exported dogs or to copy a league race to the ‘leagueraces’ folder.


6.3. Viewing Dog files

By selecting the DOG FILES button from the RACE CONSTRUCTION menu you can access a screen that displays details of exported dog files.

Note that exported dogs must be in the '.\EXPORTS\DOGS' folder.

The box along the left hand side of the screen lists all the different trainer names that are associated with the dog files found. You can select the *LIST ALL* item to view all dog files or click on an individual trainer name to list only dogs associated with this trainer.

The main dog window lists the dogs and some of their performance record details and parameters. You can sort this table by clicking on the headers.

A small red 'L' icon preceding the dogs name indicates that the dog is a PLAYER BRED dog as opposed to a game dog and you can view the lineage details by clicking the icon.

You may want to adjust the dogs handicap grading. Click the yellow grading column for the selected dog and enter the new grading (from 1-10). Entering 0 will reset the dog to a maiden and clear it’s performance record (note that this will not affect the dog of the same name that may exist in an actual game!).


Note that Greyhound Manager exports folder is located in a folder allocated by your operating system. This folder is displayed on the Construction Kit main menu. You will need to browse this folder to locate your exported dogs or to copy a league race to the ‘leagueraces’ folder.

*(The Race Builder stated that I could find mine at C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\greyhound manager\exports) JimCougar


Tue May 08, 2007 9:50 am
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