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In this post we’ll be going over our top 5 reasons why we think Zed Run will succeed.
Although, what does succeed even mean?
Nothing should be considered investment or financial advice. Enjoy the ride!
Zed Run Succeeding
To us, for a platform to succeed several things need to happen:
- Sustainable ecosystem that thrives
- Strong community and culture
- Positive internal ROI for developers
- Use-case development
Already we have seen the platform reach a few of these markers. For instance, the platform should already be hosting a positive net ROI, and the community is more vibrant than ever.
Not to mention there are several use-cases already developed on the platform like breeding, racing, and selling.
With that base understanding, lets take a look at our top 5 reasons why we believe Zed Run will CONTINUE to succeed in the future.
Will Zed Run Succeed – Top 5 Reasons
To break down our top 5 reasons, lets take a look at them:
- Growing Community
- Funding and Sponsorships
- NFT Hype
- Fixed Genesis Supply
- Additional Use-cases
We are going to go through each reason independently and discuss how Zed Run will continue to succeed in the future.
1. Growing Community
So far, the strongest thing driving Zed Run’s success is its community.
There is an extremely vibrant group of Zed Heads (as they are called) that are constantly communicating on social platforms like Twitter and Discord.
While this is impressive for a platform still in it’s BETA phase, this is only the beginning.
What we mean is that they have not even started marketing yet. That is half the battle when it comes to building out a community, but they have done all of this mostly without it.
While that is impressive, marketing is only half of the picture. The other half will be sponsors that will flock to the platform once they realize the depth of the user base.
2. Funding And Sponsorships
That ties straight into my second point – funding and sponsorships.
So far, the company behind Zed Run has already had a successful Series A raking in a whooping $20 million dollars.
This is huge for any industry, and especially for a betting and racing platform. Clearly, the investors and VCs think they have what it takes to push Zed Run to the next level.
With the funding in place sponsorships can come in and help bolster the eco-system. Not just for the developers, but for the stables and winning horses as well!
Just imagine, your stable being sponsored by a beer brand or a crypto company similar to a stable like Pac Protocol Racing!
It’s already happening, but once marketing hits it will be like fireworks.
3. NFT Hype
While this my seem obvious, the NFT and crypto space are only going to continue to grow.
We are talking famous celebrates, NFL players, NBA players, Singers, Actors, and company CEOs will soon all want a piece of this pie.
Already some of the most popular celebs have tried their hand at the space. While there has not been a ton of success, I can see some of them wanting to capitalize on the NFT space soon as the next big thing.
Advocates like Gary Vee come to mind already.
It is only natural that they will look to purchase NFTs with utility that will prompt cash flow like Zed Run horses!
Only time will tell, but I could see some rappers owning a stable just for the fun of it.
4. Fixed Genesis Supply
The thing that actually caught my eye as an investor was the fixed supply.
While there will be plenty of legendary, exclusive, elites, and cross breeds, there will only be SO many genesis horses.
Overtime, the ones that are the best will start to stand out and be worth quite the penny. We can see a direct correlation to Bitcoin and how it’s price is derived.
While this is a good start, the population of horses could start to become an issue after time.
The platform needs to figure out a way to effectively burn horses at some point in order to preserve the platforms scarcity that gives horses their value in general.
Although, owning genesis horse seems like an obvious win for any investor.
5. Additional Use-Cases
the last reason we think Zed Run will succeed is the additional use-cases the platform will build out.
Besides the basics of breeding, selling, and studding, the platform is currently building out a few more use-cases that are important to mention.
- The first one is going to be renting out horses.
Specifically, there are going to be people that excel at racing. Those people can rent good horses and race them for profit!
We have already seen people even want to give their horses over to someone good at racing in order to bolster their stats and improve their race volume. This works beneficially for both the stable and the person racing the horses since they both make money off the horse.
- The next thing that we are personally excited about is owning a race track!
While this might seem silly, owning your own track to host races will actually be extremely profitable.
Most people probably will not be thinking this far ahead, but potentially you could be hosting thousands of races a day having hundreds of thousands of dollars being bet per day.
Even if you are just retaining a small percentage of those numbers, your track generate a good amount of income.
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In this second Zed Run Blog post, we are going to continue to discuss things that are happening in our stable, developments in our socials, and of course a racing update!
Here is a quick run down:
- Changes to our stable
- Giveaway update
- Racing update
- Partnership update
- Social growth
Nothing should be considered investment or financial advice. Enjoy the ride!
Zed Run Blog Post #2
Here is an update for our stable!
- We have 11 horses in our stable! We welcome Little Choosey, the newest addition.
Most recently we made another acquisition of an unraced, unbred Z4 Genesis Szabo! We are extremely happy with this purchase since it is our first U/U that we have purchased. The horse’s name is Little Choosey! We will be racing him today and breeding him in the coming days into our stable to hopefully produce some great offspring with our outstanding mares.
Already this horse had a strong showing:
- Little placed 3rd in his Griffin race (the first Griffin we ever raced)
- He placed 2nd in a 1400m class 1 race AND 2nd in a 1400m class 2 race
- Finally he placed 9th in a free 2400m class 2 race
This horse is already showing a ton of potential. From what we can tell so far, it will be a mid-distance runner for 1400m-2000m. We will also be breeding out this horse with our horses: Major Speed, Fire Destiny, and Royal Captain! Be on the look out for some offspring coming out of our stable soon.
- Our giveaway is still live for those still wanting to enter for a free legendary Z7 Finney!
You can go here to enter! If you go through our Tweets, we have already sent out the secret phrase as well for 25+ extra entries.
Make sure to keep up with our Twitter if you want to be included in all of the giveaway secrets and extra entries!
- We have won our first 19 races, with 28 second place finishes and 8 third place finishes!
In just a few days our 10 wins has turned into 19, and we had a strong second place finish run one day where almost 50% of all our races for the day finished in 2nd. We are still trying to get a handle on the racing aspect of the game.
Our current strategy is to map out every horse in an Excel document, record flames and competition levels per race. Then we review it everyday to try and expand our understanding of each horse.
So far, we are seeing more flame and higher place finishing with this model. Although, we know that as Zed Run continues to develop and add more features, so will our model. Currently, we are pretty happy with results, but would love to turn those 2nd place finishes into first place ones very soon.
With breeding only a few days away for our stable, we are excited to welcome new horses into our racing line-up given they show potential!
- We launched a recent partnership with Danshan and some of the top stables in the community
This week we launched our first post for the series: On The Track
We can not explain how happy this makes us. The community had a great response to our initial article on Pac Protocol Racing. we really appreciate Pac’s help in getting us all the necessary information for the article.
At the present moment, we already have 20 stables lined up for On The Track interviews with the next post coming 9/22/2021 on Upper Moon Racing. Each post will have similar format of questions to keep things consistent. The main purpose for the posts are to:
- Learn how people started in Zed Run
- Find out the top stables strategies to share with the community
- Educate people about the Danshan Blood Tool
If you have not seen our first post, please check it out and give us some feedback! In addition, subscribe to be informed when the next one goes out!
Upcoming Things For The Tribe
We have been very busy over at the Tribe with the partnerships, On The Track series, and just doing horse research in general.
There are a couple of secret projects we also have in the works like:
- The Commander’s Cup – a tournament we will host in 2022 so be on the look out!
- Ranking plaques – considering 3-d printing plaques for those stables who are showing outstanding performance
- Blog development updates – we are constantly building out pages and moving things around
- More giveaways – we know you guys like giveaways, so more are on the way.
These are just a few things we have been working on in the background so stick around and be early to the party!
Social Growth
Since joining Zed Run, our Twitter and Subscriber counts have both doubled.
This is amazing to say the least, and we want to thank everyone for being involved with us and helping to promote what we love to do.
We will continue to push to grow these counts hopefully into the thousands as the year drags on!
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Today we will be discussing one of the most recent changes to virtual racing – Zed Run Horse Stamina.
There is plenty of debate already across the community on what it is, why it is important, and mainly how to manage it. Therefore, we are going to dive in today to answer some of those questions, and hopefully help you guys win more races!
Nothing should be considered investment or financial advice. Enjoy the ride!
Zed Run Horse Stamina
The newest addition to the horse racing algorithm is stamina. The funny thing about these additions to the platform is that the developers don’t exactly fully explain what these changes do.
In fact, they gave the community very little information at all about the impact of stamina on a horse. They more consider this as a discovery phase for players, which is kind of cool in ways. At the same time, it can be very frustrating.
With the limited data we have so far, lets take a look at what stamina is.
What Is Horse Stamina
Zed Run horse stamina is a metric to let the stable owner know how tired a horse is. In other words, how much energy a horse has left in the tank.
If you look above at the image we provided above, you can see a little curved bar going around each horse. This is their stamina bar! Right now, it is quite hard to view stamina except when trying to enter races.
Many of the data platforms like Know Your Horse are currently trying to build out plugins and features to make these metrics more accessible for the community.
Stamina in general is a simple concept, but leaves plenty of questions unanswered like:
- At what percentage of stamina does a horse no longer compete at full capacity?
- What are the effects on a horse’s stats from continually racing with low stamina?
- How long does it take to fully replenish a horse’s stamina?
Well, we are going to try and answer those below. lets dig in deeper to why stamina is so important.
Why Is It important
Stamina is important because it can drastically effect a horse’s ability to perform in races.
This is clearly an issue since it is imperative for horses to perform at their best in races to maintain their stats, win money, and continue to show.
If a horse is unable to perform, then slowly their stats start to fall. This can impact several things like:
- An assets overall value
- How much a horse can charge for stud fees – male horse
- How much a U/U/U offspring can be sold for – female horse
- And obviously the amount of races you can win
As we can see, stamina can effect everything about a horse if not cared for properly or fully understood.
So, lets dive into some tips we have learned to help managing your horse’s stamina.
How To Manage Stamina
While the stamina feature is new, you have to imagine that people all over the community are trying their best to figure it out.
Here are some general rules that pertain to stamina that should help you manage it:
- Only race up to three times per day
This is a general rule for horses. If you race them over three times per day then you will start to see them perform poorly on the 4th-6th races. Now, some people have begun to use this to their advantage to class down during these races. But, if you use more of your horse’s stamina in the day before, it will not be fully replenished by the next day for those 3 prime races you want to get in.
As you can see, there are trade offs. If you plan to race your horse every day, then you might want to find a suitable middle ground for down classing vs performing.
- Winning races might take more stamina
Something that we have personally noticed with our horses is: the faster they run in a race, the more stamina that is taken up.
On several occasions our horses have only raced twice in a day, but performed really well in both races. After trying to sign them up for that third leg, we realize that their stamina bar was lower than usual!
This could just be a coincidence, but it is definitely something to be aware of.
- Longer distances might take more stamina
The next thing to really consider is the distance that your horse races in.
We have one horse “Minty Fresh” that excels at 2400m races. So much so, that it is all we race her in.
Ironically, we have also noticed that she seems to tire out more frequently than other horses (she is a Z3 by the way). This COULD be tied to her performances, but even when she underperforms it seems to still drain more of her stamina.
- Some horses might have more stamina
While this is not confirmed by the Zed team (to our knowledge), it definitely feels true.
Some horses seem to be able to run significantly more races per day without losing much stamina. To our knowledge and from a conversation with Danshan, it does seem that the lower Z score a horse has, the high stamina pool that horse COULD potentially have as well.
For instance, a Z1 should be able to run more races per day than a Z5.
General Questions
From this, lets try to answer some of the questions from above.
At what percentage of stamina does a horse no longer compete at full capacity?
It is generally believed that under 90% stamina a horse will start to show diminishing returns. Simply put, it slows down below 90% and needs a carrot break.
What are the effects on a horse’s stats from continually racing with low stamina?
This one is not as quite intuitive.
No one really knows at this point, but clearly it will not be good. There will need to be a way to determine a horses potential at full stamina VS certain percentages of stamina. This could greatly effect a horse’s value on the market as well because owners could race anywhere from 1 to 5 times a day at different strengths ideally.
For example, would you rather purchase a horse that only places 1, 2 or 3 every race at full stamina and then falls off after that. Or purchase a horse that is more consistent for lower percentages of stamina allowing you to race more per day? These kind of questions will have to be answered by the market and data down the line.
How long does it take to fully replenish a horse’s stamina?
This is also a toss up. If a horse if going unraced, it should not take more than 24 hours to replenish a horse’s stamina. Although this can vary at how low the stamina is from its previous races.
Horse Stamina
Thanks for reading our post on Zed Run horse stamina! We hope you benefit from better stamina management and get more wins!
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In this post we are going to discuss Zed Run horse speed! If you are new, you might want to fully read this post as it will drastically help you from purchasing a slow horse and investing too much time in a horse that will not return the favor!
We are going to be going over:
- What is Zed Run horse speed
- Why is horse speed important
- Places to get horse statistics
- Why you should be using flame
- How this effects breeding
Nothing should be considered investment or financial advice. Enjoy the ride!
Zed Run Horse Speed
In the virtual world of horse racing, several things can give a horse its value.
Sometimes it is bloodline like Nakamoto or Szabo. Sometimes it is their type of Genesis or Legendary.
It can even be coat color like some of the super rare coats that usually bring in a premium.
Although, something that will always bring more value to a horse is it’s speed and race history. While race history is important, experienced stable owners will look past the typical standard statistics they see, and go straight for the horse’s speed.
What is Horse Speed
Horse speed is the rate at which the horses can run races.
For instance, a standard time for the 2000M race is around 120 seconds. While that might win some races, overall it is an average time for the population of horses on the platform.
Horse speed allows users to know more than just wins and losses. It allows them to dig into the potential of a horse.
Why Is Horse Speed Important
As we just mentioned, horse speed is what gives a horse it’s depth.
The horses on the platform are more than wins and losses, flame and odds. They have underlying stats that will let you know their REAL potential. While most horses have not been raced more than 50 times, a horse really won’t show its full potential until its raced around 1000 times.
After about 1000 races, you will start to get a complete picture of the distribution of the horse. Horses with 50 races or even 100, are just a snap shot of what they fully will become.
Find Horse Statistics
Therefore, it is extremely important to know where to get statistics on horses.
Not every horse you buy will have 1000 races, but the more information you can gather on a horse, the better educated decision you can make on where to race them, and how much they are worth after all!
The three main sources we are going to use to retrieve horse speed data are:
- Know Your Horse (KYH)
- Zedrun Tools
- Hawku
Lets dive into the first tool, KYH and we’ll talk about a useful tool that we like: The density chart per distance!
Side note*
We will be looking at one of our very own horses in the Sanfrancisco Tribe Stable – Jocka’s Truce!
Know Your Horse Speed
Almost every Zed head knows about Know Your Horse!
There are A LOT of great tools and metrics on this site that you can use. One in particular that we like is the Density chart. You can find these charts by searching for a horse and clicking on “speed analysis” on the left hand side of the screen. Or it might be hidden somewhere in the menu if you are on mobile.
Anyways, the charts allow you to see your horse’s performance compared to the population standard curve.
Similar to a Z-curve, these charts are great in fully getting a grasp on the range your horse has.
For instance, our horse Jocka’s Truce performs extremely well at 2000M as we can see because his average race times are a full standard deviation above the rest of the population!
Know Your Horse Speed
Use this tool on your own horses to figure out how the compare to the population, or use it to check out if a horse is worth purchasing! Either way, a great tool to add to your arsenal.
Zedrun Tools Charts
The next tool we are going to use is from a platform called Zedrun Tools!
While Zedrun Tools has many many awesome features, the one we use the most is similar to the last one. To get to this chart below, search a horse and click on “rank analysis” on the left side of your screen. Or in the menu for mobile users.
This tool compares your horse’s performance to the rest of the population in terms of straight percentages. If you hate curves like in the last tool, then this one might be more straight forward for you.
The main difference is that this tool does not fully capture your horses range or tell you the number of races per distance, but it is still a great metric to review!
Below is Jocka’s Truce’s chart. As we can see again, he excels at 2000m and the 1600m standing at the top 85% and 84% of the population respectfully.
Zedrun Tool Horse Speed
Make sure to look up your horses on Zedrun Tools and learn about all the other cool charts and data you can observe on the platform.
Hawku Statistics
The last platform we are going to discuss is Hawku!
Hawku really is more of a general overview for us. Sadly, we have not had the time to fully dig into the platform, but it has been quite successful at measuring a horse’s overall speed for us.
As you can see below, Jocka’s Truce’s speed in total is in the top 95.6%! Clearly this horse has wheels for legs because he is rolling all over that track.
To get to this chart type in your horse’s name and click on “speed data” right below their picture.
What is Zed Run Flame
The last thing to consider when it comes to measuring a horse’s speed is the newest addition to the platform, flame.
Flame is an indicator that Zed Run uses to let users know which horses in each race have the most potential!
Zed Run Flame or Heat from KYH
This is probably one of the neatest features on the platform. Very early on, you can start to tell which distances your horse is strongest at, even if they are not winning races. This is an awesome tool to help those new to the platform or those not great with data.
From just paying attention to the distances your horse gets flame at and the general level of competition in the race, you can easily find the sweet spot for your horse to excel at!
One thing to consider is that flame, like odds, is relative to the competition per race. For instance, if your horse gets put in a race with plenty of weak horses then it might get flame at a certain distance. Where as in a race with stronger horses, your horse might not get flame at the same distance. Pay attention to this!
Although, what about offspring? Does any of what we talked about matter for a horse’s offspring?
How Speed Effects Breeding
At the end of the day, horses are money machines when it comes to breeding.
Generally, a fast horse will rake in a much larger stud fee compared to slower horses in hopes that the offspring will inherit some of that speed!
While we don’t know for sure how this works, there is a decent correlation to speed being inherited for the most part. Here are a few things to consider:
- Horse preferences like distance are not an inheritable trait
- Z value has a part in letting a horse carry on its traits to the offspring
- Bloodline is mostly just is an indicator to the ultimate potential a horse can reach if you get lucky (like a more expensive lottery ticket with bigger prizes)
- Offspring get most of their traits from the male (around 65%) and less from the female (around 35%)
With that information, be careful with what and who you breed with!
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Thanks for reading this post on Zed Run horse speed! Hopefully, this post will educate readers enough to makes smarter purchases, race better on the track, and ultimately enjoy Zed Run more!
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We’ll see you on the track!
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Welcome back to the Tribe!
lately, we’ve been writing about educational posts to help those new to the Zed Run community. Although, we want to be a little more personal in these posts! These posts will be our personal blogs that takes you behind the scenes!
In this first post, we want to discuss things like:
- Our stable
- Experience with the community
- And what we are looking forward to
Nothing should be considered investment or financial advice. Enjoy the ride!
Zed Run Blog
Every post we are going to give you guys a current update of the things we have done recently:
- We have 10 horses in our stable!
This includes a Nak 2 genesis horse that we will be renting out for stud soon!
- We gave away 4 offspring to bring new people into the Zed Run community and launched a giveaway!
We are very proud to say that we brought 4 new users to the platform and will continue to do our part in growing out the community! In addition, We have plans to bring many more users with our posts, influence, and giveaways!
Also, we launched another giveaway for users already on the platform! You can join here!
- We have won our first 10 races!
We are very excited about this and plan to push hard to get to 100 wins in the next month or so!
- We’ve received a great response from the community
This includes posts, negotiating for horses, and overall just being included! Great job to everyone in the Zed Run community! Now, lets dive a bit more into our stable.
Our Stable
When we started, we wanted to map out a stable strategy.
We quickly went to work pricing out horses, studying the sell floors of certain offspring, and navigating the best ways to generate monthly income for ourselves to grow our stable! Not to mention we found out that it is actually easier to stud month to month as income than selling horses.
As we continue to learn and the platform continues to grow, we are sure the initial strategy will change. We’ll keep you updated as it does!
Right now, our stable is a mixture of breeding, racing and studding!
Community Experience
We wanted to take the time to write about our community experience!
Why? Because honestly it has been so amazing.
Already we have joined forces with some of the top community members to do several things like: give away horses, promote a new tool, and learn more than expected. We really want to applaud the members of the Zed Run community on a job well done welcoming new comers.
Looking Forward To
With the community being so inviting, we have high hopes for the platform. Although, there are a few things specifically that we are especially excited for.
- Growing out our stable
We have not been able to breed yet, and that is very exciting to us! We start our first breeding round on the 23rd. We’ll keep you updated!
- Further updates to the platform
We know the platform is still in BETA, and we can’t wait to see the finished product with all of the additional features.
- Owning your own track
We read somewhere that the team envisions the ability for people to own their own track down the line! If we could ever get to that level, that would be a dream come true. Just the thought of it makes us want to dive into the platform more and more.
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Welcome back to the Tribe!
In this post we will be covering racing in Zed Run! Most specifically, we will be going over some of the basic tips you’ll need to know before you head out on the track.
We will be covering things like:
- Racing Basics
- Researching your horse
- Finding the sweet spot
- Studying the competition
- Patience Pays off
Nothing should be considered investment or financial advice. Enjoy the ride!
Learn How To Race
From learning about the different horses to understanding charts and graphs, starting Zed Run can be quite the bite for some people to chew. Therefore, we want to help some of the new comers digest their “food” with these education posts.
In this one we will be digging into – learn how to race. Lets kick things off with racing basics.
Zed Run Racing Basics
Zed Run is not complicated to understand, but at first the mission can seem daunting. There are different classes, a range of distances, too many stats, and so much more that all factor into whether or not your horse will preform well!
Not to mention all the other things like stamina, user error, and the occasional unlucky day that can make anyone want to pull their hair out.
Lets take it step by step with the racing basics and start off with the simplest part – classes and distances.
What Are Zed Run Classes
Assuming you have already purchased your horse and moved it onto the Zed Run platform, you might be looking to enter your first race!
First thing to consider before picking a race is your horse’s class. The races on Zed Run are split into 5 main classes, free races, and one special class called a Griffin:
- Class I – hardest class
- Class II
- Class III
- Class IV
- Class V – easiest class
- Free races – can be split out by class, but typically less competition
- Griffin – first free race for horses that have never raced before!
The classes are quite self explanatory. Class I is the highest and class V is the lowest. The class system’s main purpose is to keep strong horses from racing with weaker horses.
For instance, a class I horse can not race in class III races. This is because that would be unfair to the other horses in the race and heavily skew the race. Although, ironically a class III horse CAN race in a class I race. Although, we don’t recommend it.
Once you figure your horse’s class (the number and letter beside their name), you need to decide what distance to race at.
Race Distances
Probably the MOST important thing to consider when racing your horse is the distance.
Why you ask?
Because every horse has a preferred distance that they like to race! Most horses will excel at one, two, or even three distances, but be miserable at every other one.
A great indicator of what distance your horse excels at correlates with the new flame feature on the game. Flames are suppose to indicate the strongest three horses per race in that specific distance.
If you horse is getting flame in a specific distance, it is probably a good idea to keep racing there.
Most successful horses will actually only race one or two distances over and over capitalizing on their strengths!
That does it for the racing basics – lets discuss researching your horse!
Researching Your Horse
Know Your Horse Example
While you might think, why not just race him?
Well, because that can cost a lot of money. You need around 30-40 races at least to get an understanding of a horse. The more races, the better you will understand how the horse preforms.
The best tools in the game currently to view race history, stats, and population norms for comparison are:
On each of these platforms you can research any horse on the market! Each platform will give you different data, charts, graphs, references, and overall speed scores. It is your job to slowly figure out which one you like the most and start relying on!
I highly recommend bookmarking these tools. Look up your horses race history, find its strengths, and test them yourself!
Find The Sweet Spot
We mentioned this earlier about distances. You need to find your horse’s sweet spot.
Most of the time that is the distance at which your horse gets flame, but sometimes it can be the distance that they can actually win the most.
Some horses perform very consistently getting first to second all the way to sixth or seventh without ever getting last. Which is great! Although, your horse will continually climb classes this way until they are either out classed, or able to battle at the top levels.
Some horses are just horrible and never win. Those are called donkeys. We don’t want these horses!
Lets explore two other types of horses.
U-Shaped Horse
Some horses end up being good at getting first or last almost every time. These horses are commonly called U-shaped horses.
They have a very special property. U-shaped horses either win, or lose every race which means that they will usually keep their class and not promote as often. This actually enables them to earn a higher profit margin over time and maintain a healthy level of competition at the lower classes.
A-Shaped Horse
Another kind of horse is called an A-shaped horse. These horses are strong horses, but never can quite pinch off a win or finish in last. These horses will commonly have a negative ROI over time since you only get paid out in first, second or third position.
In addition, you only demote when you get 11th or 12th, so these horses actually struggle long-term, but could still be good for breeding.
It is very important to figure out what kind of horse you have and find your horses sweet spot for success!
Study The Competition
Another huge part of winning races is knowing who you are racing against. Therefore, before entering any race you will want to study the competition.
What this means is take the time to see who is already registered in a race before joining! Know Your Horse has a great section on races that will help you see the rate of fire for all the horses in a current race.
The main idea is to avoid tough competition. Why would you want to race against a horse you know is stronger than yours?
Long story short, don’t just gamble your money away. Study your competition and maximize your chances for winning races!
Be Patient
While the other things above are more important in game, this is the most important advice out of game – be patient.
So many people get impatient waiting for the perfect race to pop up so they just join race!
But, there is no point in racing if you have not done the steps above and picked the right race. Once you are confident your horse has a huge chance of wining, it is time to enter. Anything else is just gambling.
Be patient by:
- Not racing more than three times per day
- Waiting to find a race in your horse’s best distance
- Studying the competition beforehand
- Take the time to learn your horse
- And by not being impulsive on this platform.
The slow and steady will come out ahead over time and benefit from it financially!
Learn How To Race Tips
Those are our tips for people that want to learn how to race on Zed Run! We hope this post will help you increase your win rates, get more profit, and overall just help you to enjoy the platform more over time!
We’ll see you on the track!
Cheers
