The I Love Canadian Harness Racing Fan Club will feature a Pick 8* Online Handicapping Challenge for each of the four 2014 Regional Driving Championships and the 2014 National Driving Championship.

We’ll also be calling upon a few local handicappers to offer their opinions on the Championship card and we’ll feature their insights on opening day of each Challenge.

The Pick 8 Challenge for the 2014 National Driving Championship at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at Charlottetown Driving Park will be held on Tuesday, August 26. Entry to the contest will open on Sunday, August 24.

Your task is to handicap the field of eight drivers in order of their official finishing position in the Driving Championship, from first through eighth for the NDC. Drivers receive points based on their official finish position in each NDC race. The driver with the most points will advance to the World Driving Championship.

The person who correctly selects the order of finish will win a fantastic prize pack, which will include a $50 gift card to the racetrack of their choice, $50 in Fan Club swag, and an autographed photo of the winning driver of the Championship.

You must be a Fan Club member to enter.

(*in the event that a Regional Event features 9 drivers, the challenge will be a Pick 9.)

PICK 8 HANDICAPPING RULES

1. The I Love Canadian Harness Racing Fan Club’s Pick 8 Online Challenge will be conducted on the four Regional Driving Championships and the National Driving Championship. The contests will open a minimum of two days prior to each Championship and close at noon (est) on the contest day. No purchase is necessary.

There is no cost to register. Contest is open to Canadian residents, 18 years of age or older as of the date of registration who are Fan Club members, and has Internet access at time of registration. The contest is void in whole where prohibited by law.

2. The contest will close for entries at noon EST on each contest day. (April 26, May 9, June 17, June 28, August 26).

3. The winner will be the player who selects the eight (or nine) drivers in the correct official order of finish in the Regional or National Driving Championship.

a) In the event that no one selects the correct complete order of finish for the Driving Championship, the winner will be the person who has selected the most consecutive drivers in the correct order of finish starting with the winner.

b) In the event of a tie contest officials will conduct a random draw to determine the winning player.

4. Only one entry will be accepted per individual and e-mail address. Multiple entries will result in immediate disqualification. SC reserves the right to disqualify any contestant which SC believes has submitted more than one entry. Submissions with incomplete, bogus or invalid names and/or e-mail addresses will not be accepted.

5. Standardbred Canada employees, Directors and immediate family who reside at the same residence, drivers (and their immediate families) that are competing in the Regional Driving Championships, or any provincial racing commission employees are not eligible for this contest.

6. No faxed, mailed, electronically mailed, or phoned-in entries are allowed.

7. SC assumes no responsibility for lost, late, misdirected, ineligible or mutilated entries. SC is not responsible for lost, interrupted or unavailable hardware or software or telephone transmission or technical failures, garbled or jumbled transmission or other errors of any kind, whether human, mechanical, or electronic. Once submitted, entries become the sole property of SC and will not be returned.

8. SC reserves the sole right to interpret all questions and conditions in regard to this contest.

9. Anything not covered in these rules will be ruled on by the management of SC and their decision will be final and binding.

10. Contestants, by entering the contest, agree to be bound by the above rules and regulations.

11. The first place finishers for each Championship will win a $50 gift card (for the Canadian racetrack of their choice), a $50 Fan Club swag prize package and an autographed photograph of the winning driver of the respective driving championship.