End of the season on Saturday and possibly the end of this comp after all these years. Like Swing I feel its just going through the motions now and DS comps are soon going to be a thing of the past ( except TC's excellent football ones ).

Anybody else maybe willing to take it on ?

Last race of the comp.

Can the top 6 please PM Swing by 3.20 on Saturday with your selection AND reserve. Thank you

15:35 DONCASTER, 8 NOV 2014
1m 4f

Betfred November Handicap (Class 2) (3YO plus)
Winner £43,575

NO. DRAW HORSE AGE WGT TRAINER RTF% JOCKEY OR TS RPR
16 7-4916 Ennistown14 4 9-10 Charlie Appleby75 William Buick 102 91 112
216 5-7380 First Mohican141 p 6 9-10 Alan King50 Louis Steward3 102 91 114
314 334110 Rhombus28 4 9-6 Ismail Mohammed Martin Harley 98 89 111
411 454452 Dashing Star14 4 9-6 David Elsworth75 Jamie Spencer 98 104 114
513 7-1331 Mount Logan56 3 9-5 Luca Cumani50 Andrea Atzeni 103 95 111
610 2-6796 Sir Walter Scott42 b 4 9-5 Luca Cumani50 Richard Hughes 97 89 110
77 147434 Odeon36 3 9-3 James Given50 Graham Lee 101 99 111
819 162-42 Manhattan Swing28J 4 9-1 Brian Ellison58 Dale Swift 93 69 109
920 156254 Esteaming29 4 9-1 David Barron40 Graham Gibbons 93 95 112
1012 112-67 Plutocracy21 p 4 9-0 David Lanigan100 Pat Smullen 92 50 110
114 111164 Treasure The Ridge35 b 5 9-0 Andrew Reid100 Danny Brock3 92 99 110
1222 333039 Communicator28 6 9-0 Andrew Balding79 David Probert 92 105 114
135 516401 Farquhar28 3 8-13 Peter Chapple-Hyam100 Luke Morris 97 98 109
1423 90553 Ardlui15 b 6 8-13 Tim Easterby68 David Allan 91 91 113
159 691001 Latenightrequest14 3 8-12 Richard Fahey57 Paul Hanagan 96 96 110
1621 591933 Aramist29 4 8-12 Alan Swinbank Robert Winston 90 93 111
1718 905141 Open Eagle4 4x 5 8-12 David O´Meara32 Daniel Tudhope 90 105 113
1815 042341 Headline News8 5 8-11 Rae Guest33 Jack Garritty5 89 101 111
191 171201 Old Town Boy29 3 8-11 Philip McBride67 Jim Crowley 95 96 110
202 416481 Eurystheus8 p 5 8-10 Michael Appleby54 Alistair Rawlinson5 88 99 111
2117 52221 One Pekan75 4 8-10 Roger Varian50 Frederik Tylicki 88 100 108
223 275331 Dark Ruler19 5 8-10 Alan Swinbank Joe Fanning 88 95 110
238 151048 Kings Bayonet29 7 8-9 Alan King50 Hayley Turner 87 100 113

Forecast: 8/1 Mount Logan, 10/1 Latenightrequest, Old Town Boy, 11/1 Open Eagle, 12/1 Farquhar, Dashing Star, 14/1 Headline News, First Mohican, One Pekan, Rhombus, Manhattan Swing, Esteaming, 16/1 Ennistown, Plutocracy, Communicator, Aramist, Dark Ruler, Sir Walter Scott, Odeon, 20/1 Treasure The Ridge, Ardlui, Eurystheus, 33/1 Kings Bayonet

Dashing Star win for Jo ta

Manhattan Swing win please

Esteaming w reserve

Sir Walter Scott win please

Reserve Latenightrequest win please

Odeon win please

Res ennistown win please

Good Luck to those involved at the top

Open Eagle to win please

Communicator to win please

What do you reckon guys ? Is it time to knock this on the head now ? Is it becoming a chore having to pick a horse each week ?

I know Dean is doing an external comp for the jumps season, shall we leave it at that ?

I am open to ideas and suggestions but my own personal opinion is that DS games are slowly dying out which is a crying shame because thats what brought me to this site in the first place

I'd give it up now as I did with the Sunday comp

I think these weekly comps have just got a bit stale and become a chore both to administer and to compete in.........my feeling is that everyone is just going through the motions

I don't do any of the internet competitions and have no interest in them (they all appears to have pages of rules and complicated selection and re-selection procedures - too much hassle! )

Blimey........bit of a pin-sticker to end the competition with !.......

I'll for Treasure The Ridge to win please

I agree re becoming a bit of a chore. My own thoughts on it are I hope you keep doing it
Maybe an idea would be to have possibly 2 divisions with promotion/relegation ?

With the amount of entrants that you get, I think the contestants will be there

When you (think) have little chance of winning, it may keep the interest up

Not sure how you would sort out who goes into what division though...

I would think that after the initial set-up, it wouldn't involve much more work

Anyway, that's my twopennoth

Old Town Boy to win please

Ardlui, win please.

Rhombus e-w please

First Mohican win for me and Treasure the Ridge win for Cantos Jnr

Kings Bayonet to win

Me and Mrs DG enjoy these comps because they are fun. Some comps on other sites are far too serious. What the answer is I didn't know. If no-one else comes forward I might try and run something but weekends are a bit busy so I could struggle to do it justice. I like dave's idea of divisions to spice it a bit. Maybe a k-o as well. Be a shame if they died out?
Written on a tablet late at night after some holiday beer. Hopefully it makes sense.

Some good ideas regards a re hash, the league or cup idea etc

Late night request win please

It's a tricky situation. I love the comps and certainly appreciate all the hard work you put in. I certainly enter far less comps than I used too. The thought of an external site drives me away. I just enter comps on DS for convenience.

I like someone's idea of division 1-2. But then would it realistically work?

I still will always enter Cheltenham/National comps. Maybe Royal Ascot but seems there's a new comp every other week and more comps the more tedious it gets.

If you did a national hunt comp I'd certainly enter. I always come on usually at weekends now, enter the footy comps then leave again. More a casual viewer of forums now than serious poster.

Question for you hibs.... How much of your casual viewing is down to the convoluted structure of the sports forums that makes it more difficult to find things?

Mrs DG will have one pekan with Farquhar as a reserve. Both to win. I'll pm mine to swing in a month, cheers

just be in time for Christmas then..........

I've got PMs from king, drew and DG so far.........

Open Eagle WIN please.

Plutocracy win please