ARV 4 Fun!

Over the past few years, I’ve played in a half dozen or more fantasy horseracing contests. At first, I used Associate Remote Viewing to select my “winner” for the three races each contest day. After I joined Dave Silverstein’s group, using my pendulum for sports predictions, I decided to try something less time-consuming on these fantasy contests. For the last few, I’ve used straight intuition, basing my selection on which horse’s name sounded best to me.

For the first time, I was able to complete a contest. In Remington Park’s High Q Test, which ended June 1, I was among 1,083 players who was still “active” after 45 race days and 1,028 were eliminated and “in the barn.” My finishing bankroll of $515 was ranked 1,101st, compared to the winner’s $1,079 bankroll. If I’d been betting real money ($6 per race), I would’ve lost $313. Sigh.

Participants continued in THE TEST until such day that none of their selections finished in the top four of their respective race. Each race day, at least one of their selections had to run in 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th in their respective race. All eligible contestants received additional Lucky Horseshoes on April 4 and May 9, each giving them one extra day when they could have no winners without being eliminated from the contest.

Last year, I survived until Day 51 of Remington Park’s Thoroenduro challenge, when I got distracted by travel and didn’t enter my selections for two days. When the challenge ended on Dec. 15, despite missing ten race days, I still ranked in the top half – 784th of 2,480 players.

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When I signed up for the Remington Park THOROENDURO fantasy horseracing challenge in August, I knew I wouldn’t have time to do remote viewing for 62 race days. Instead, I opted to rely on intuition–in other words, to just “guess” based on which horses’ names appealed to me.

My participation in Dave Silverstein’s group gave me the confidence to try something besides associative remote viewing. In that group, I’ve been using the pendulum to make sports predictions (over/under, winner/loser).

Here’s how the game worked: participants survived THOROENDURO until a race day when none of their selections finished in the top four of their respective race. Only selections that finished in 1st, 2nd or 3rd position received “virtual bankroll” credit based on the official pari-mutuel payoffs for that selection’s respective race. If a contestant failed to have any of their selections finish in the top four positions of any game race on a THOROENDURO contest date, they lost one Eligibility Life. This could force the contestant to go “In the Barn” for a period of time before being allowed back “In the Race” of THOROENDURO.

Because of my early sign-in, I had four “lives” before being disqualified. I managed to stay active through Nov. 21, Day 51, without being sent to the “Barn.” In the end, my intuition didn’t fail but I got distracted. I was traveling and didn’t enter any selections for two race days when I only had one “life” left.

My ranking throughout the contest was generally in the top quarter. For instance, on Day 45 (Nov. 9) I ranked 365th of 2,480 players. When the challenge ended on Dec. 15, despite missing ten race days, I still ranked in the top half–784th of 2,480 players. All in all, it was a fun way to gauge how well intuition can work.