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Sponsors! In a time of shrinking budgets it’s extremely cheery making when an advertiser choses the Hello Race Fans Ad Network to publicize their events and products. A big thanks to our current our advertisers!

Sam Houston is running a geo-targeted campaign, so if you’re in the Houston area and you see the Sam Houston ad, click on over and check them out… and get yourself to the track!

Totebet offers a sign-up bonus, rebates and co-mingles funds into the track’s pools. If you’re looking for a new platform, click on over!

And finally, Monmouth/Meadowlands has started a campaign with us… their incredibly fun Survival at the Shore game is back! Click on over and sign-up!

Again, many thanks to our sponsors! We hope we can help get the word out about their products… and in turn we’re grateful not only for the support of independent content publishers (and our Fan Education site, which is what we use our portions of the ad revenue for!), but for the chance to help them broaden the reach of their brands.

Please visit our sponsors when you see their ads!

(And now that we’ve reached part 3, I will retire Reasons to be Cheerful, even if there continue to be more reasons)

Posted by dana on May 08 2010    
Filed Under: Hello Race Fans, 2010, Internet, Monmouth Park, You Can Help, Site Related, Ads

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As you may have noticed, I’ve been messing around with my new “Derby Madness” section. I don’t need as much of an attention span to code as I do to handicap and no one loses any money!

I made the news from KentuckyDerby.com widget myself. I used Widgetbox so anyone who wanted to grab it could. And of course, you should grab The First Saturday in May widget to keep up to date on screenings, the DVD release and so on. Also, another big shout out to Jessica at Railbird for her excellent stat compilation via google docs.

I have a couple of other things I’d like to add, namely my standings in the various RTTR leagues and perhaps a few other things.

My apologies to folks who have their monitor resolution set to 1024×768 (48% of my viewers!), according to BrowserCam you’re getting an annoying horizontal scrollbar, even though the content is contained within the window!

I wrestled with the layout for quite a while to try and get rid the annoying scroll bar to no avail. Also, my apologies to folks at monitor resolutions higher than 1024×768 because I had to mash everything in Derby Madness far too close together, so it looks smashed and busy. See, no one wins!

At any rate, please feel free to leave any feedback re: annoying scroll bars, smashed and too busy content, now the site takes long to load or anything that might be helpful (or not).

Posted by dana on Feb 24 2008    
Filed Under: 2008, Internet, Site Related, Derby Trail

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I had a my 1,000th visitor today! Being a member of the Thoroughbred Bloggers Alliance has it’s privileges… my traffic has really jumped since joining. I’m solidly in the mid two digits, trending towards the high two digits (that was meant to be somewhat funny, btw).

Click on over the TBA homepage & check out the updated standings with the winners of each category posted. I was very happy to see that Hard Spun ranked above Street Sense in the end.

Thank you visitor from North Carolina Research and Education Network, in Chapel Hill, using Windows XP and Firefox 1.5, screen resolution 1024 x 768, visiting from 4:18:06 pm to 4:18:58 pm EST., you are my 1,000th visitor! I don’t have a prize to offer, unless of course you’d like some commemorative Breeders’ Cup loosing tickets… I have plenty of those!

Posted by dana on Oct 29 2007    
Filed Under: TBA, Site Related, 2007, Street Sense, Hard Spun

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To be honest I didn’t think it would take me so long to get this site up and running. Once I started fiddling with it I found more and more things I wanted to fiddle with… and believe me, there are still things to fiddle with.

I’ve ported about half of my old content over (manually, one post at a time!) and still have a couple of months worth of posts to bring over. These will show up as newly published pieces in the RSS feed when I add them.

One of the reasons it took so long, besides the fiddling, was that with each post I was creating the somewhat (read: borderline ridiculously) “extensive” category structure (marked as tags). One of the things on the fiddling list is to add collapse/expand capabilities to the parent categories. That ‘Horse’ catagory is already pretty outrageous so it would be good to be able have that load with the catagory rolled up but easily expanded.

If you see anything weird please let me know, by way of the handy About/Contact page… yes, you can now easily email me, not to mention comment!

Posted by dana on Sep 30 2007    
Filed Under: Site Related, Wooo!

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