# SIM Glossary

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* **Alexandra Jaysman (AJ)**: The name given to the SIM computer. AJ recycles horses, distributes horses.
* **Break**: The period between SIM game years when there isn't any racing activity. Usually two weeks long, but every third year it is three weeks long.
* **Create a Horse (CAH)**: Players spend 3000 game points to create a horse with specific age, gender, color, and name.
* **Create a Mare (CAM)**: Players spend 5000 game points to create an unraced, retired 6yo broodmare with specific sire, maternal grandsire, color, and name.
* **Game Points**: Points purchased using real money, used for perks like creating horses and subscribing to SIMperior.
* **Game Year**: A 16-week period that comprises a full year within the game.
* **Horse Whisperer**: A character that provides hints about a horse's preferred track condition for SIMperior players.
* **Mary Weather**: A character that gives training comments and evaluates horses.
* **Post Time**: The time at which the SIM computer "runs" the races, 8:00 PM Pacific Time on race nights.
* **Purse Distribution**: The purse distribution in SIM: 50% for 1st, 22% for 2nd, 10% for 3rd, 7% for 4th, and 2% for 5th, with the remaining 9% as a breeder's award.
* **Retire**: When a horse is taken out of racing status to become a breeding animal or be pensioned.
* **SIMMY Awards**: The game's equivalent of the Eclipse Awards, with categories broken down by breed, gender, age, and/or region.
* **SIMperior**: A paid status with benefits like access to speed figures, the SIM Stud Book, and a more organized Racing Barn page.
* **The Steward**: The person who owns and runs SIM.
* The Admin: Staff member of the SIM
* Entry Clerk: Husband to The Steward. *(Cook..and clean..and breed mares..and write things on the simperior edge..)*
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* **All Weather (AW)**: A third surface for Thoroughbreds in SIM, in addition to dirt and turf.
* **Also Eligible (AE)**: Horses that are 13th or 14th entrants in a race, only able to start if one of the original twelve horses is scratched.
* **Black Type**: Refers to stakes level horses; those that have won or placed in stakes.
* **Carded Race**: Regularly scheduled races in SIM.
* **Conditions**: Criteria that horses must meet to be eligible to enter a race.
* **Derby**: Stakes races for three-year-olds.
* **Distaff**: Refers to a filly or mare, or a race for females.
* **Entry Fee**: Paid for running in stakes races, 1% of the purse.
* **Full Field**: In SIM, a full or maximum field is twelve horses. (With exceptions)
* **Graded Stakes**: The highest level of stakes race, with Grade 1 being the highest.
* **Listed Stakes**: A non-graded stakes race, less prestigious than graded stakes.
* **Match Race**: A race with just two horses.
* **Restricted Stakes**: Stakes races restricted to horses bred in a specific state or country.
* **Sprint**: Short races, under a mile.
* Marathon: Long races, usually over a mile and quarter.
* **Stakes Race**: The most prestigious races, requiring an entry fee.
* **Steeplechaser**: A horse that races over jumps.
* **Steward's Cup (SC)**: The SIM's equivalent of the Breeders Cup, held the last day of the racing year.

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