i have started a jump schedule but all of the Irish novice hurdle races are full with uk horses and it seems Irish horses can't run in them, however Irish horses can run in novice chases but another issue is that they seem to be eligible for novice chases for more than one season, does anyone know if there's a fix for this?

Don't quote me on this but I *think* it may be because there are relatively few Irish horses in the game anyway, so as more Irish horses that come over here (and especially good ones) are chasers the game has a bias for Irish horses skipping hurdling and waiting until horses are older for chasing.

I had that novice problem and sent my game to Mark. He said it worked itself out in the next couple of seasons.

Thanks supercat, are you aware of any way to possibly tweak the schedule or something to fix this? Or did it work itself out over a few seasons? I already skipped the first five seasons.

I honestly don't really pay any attention. I'm on about season 16 and the novice thing for me only just started, but I haven't really paid any attention to Irish novice races, I know the chases are often competitive and have lots of Irish horses in them. It'll probably work itself out eventually. But I don't know of an immediate fix.

Thanks supercat, I have tried a few different things, and it seems the very first season Irish novice hurdles are full with Irish horses, and then no Irish horse runs in any Irish novice hurdle from then on. It's very strange, is this something mark can look into?

You'll have to ask Mark and send your game to him. Though if it's a modified schedule there might not be much he can do.