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Just in case people are wondering... Nef has added to all horses registered to the Olympics, a special Olympics symbol/icon to their names. This is in recognition for being an entrant as well as to help judges and stewards see those horses entered in events that aren't registered.

I love this so much.

Very cool!

Now that is brilliant.

way to cool

Oh I was wondering what that was lol

What does it mean? Is there an "11" on it? What does that number signify?

I would assume the 11 would be in reference to 2011.

miss sarabi wrote:I would assume the 11 would be in reference to 2011.

took me a moment to figure that one out too lol. I'm hoping that means, olympic entries will keep the name plate thingy, so in the future you can look at a horse and know it was in the olympics and what year, even if it didn't medal and get all that stuff put on its page

The name plates are permanent

Heh, the hover-over text reads "2010 Official Olympic Horse".

Trixter wrote:Heh, the hover-over text reads "2010 Official Olympic Horse".

xD

I didnt even notice that until you posted

i was just wondering, will horses that did not actually enter the olympics still get to keep there name plate? i.e horses that registered but then were not trained in time ect. people could think after the olympics are over , they are buying a horse that competed because of the name plate, when infact it was just registered. it takes alot of time to enter the events ect, which i dont mind as its fun and i love being part of it, but i dont think horses that did not end up competing should get to keep there name plates.

They most likely will keep the name plates. Hopefully, as in all things, people look at events to see if it actually competed. It would just be too hard to go through and pick out those horses who didn't enter, compile a list and have Nef remove coding just on those.

123kerry wrote:i was just wondering, will horses that did not actually enter the olympics still get to keep there name plate? i.e horses that registered but then were not trained in time ect. people could think after the olympics are over , they are buying a horse that competed because of the name plate, when infact it was just registered. it takes alot of time to enter the events ect, which i dont mind as its fun and i love being part of it, but i dont think horses that did not end up competing should get to keep there name plates.

I thought about this too because I bought a horse to event (in regular events) that was trained for the Olympics but never entered and I was thinking that I didn't want to 'false advertise' if the horse was bred after I evented him... BUUUT I realised that it really shouldn't matter because he will obviously not have a medal, and if anyone looks they would see that the events he evented in were not Olympic events... not that I would try to tell people that he had competed when he hadn't, but... I don't think the price of a horse will go up for being in the Olympics if it didn't DO well in the Olympics... I don't think a horses value will raise at all for just being entered... in fact if they did really really poorly I wouldn't think they would have any more value than any other horse that didn't do well in events... or at least, that is the way I would view them...