Thanks for your concerns, this is why I will always bounce any Hive ideas off of fellow Hivers first. I tend to undervalue my time and stretch myself thin in life, and my idea of $1 HBD per duck just wouldn't create a big prize and also make it sustainably worth my time.
Thanks to my fellow Hivers I now will sell the ducks at $2 HBD a piece, and I know this will change my attitude greatly on race days. I really want this whole thing to work, perhaps even a racing community and daily races down the road. Firstly though I need to nail the rollout, so my main focus has been creating a very engaging post format for the races.
After that is done it will probably take a few trial races to nail the camera angles, start, photo finish, etc. All in all though I am excited by the whole idea, and making even menial progress is very exciting.