Why is it after a horse has its first race their jumping ability goes down.. breaks my heart every time

If in the race the horse makes a mistake in a chase its jump rating goes down but it can also increase if it jumps well. If your horse needs its jumping rating increase try jockey mode its the quickest way to get its rating to improve that is if you don't fall.


Gray

I'm scared to run him because i know his ability will go down

Holy fek, enter him in the league, export him and breed the crap out of him

Couldn't have put it better myself, my horses are only going to get a view of the rear end of that beast.

Nine version in the line, lots of copies I figure maybe I'll just quit now save myself the disappointment

That horse would probably win G1 Flat in the league!

That horse makes me want to retire, have run hundreds of seasons, bred thousands of horses and I have never seen anything even close, not remotely, nothing like that has ever existed in an of my games period. Clearly I do not have the time to bred the way it is required and have little interest in just making up the numbers for those who do.

the main thing i do is search for particular attributes and then breed them in ,got the jump ability randomly in auctions

Hang in there Josh - you're not alone, mate!
Just breed horses that have full potential and full speed as a starting point and try to get the other bars up along the way!

It's still a full on buzz winning the lower races!
As the greatest trainer who ever lived said “Patience is the cheapest thing in racing, but most people don’t use it” - James Bartholomew Cummings or just Bart!
And so it is with this game!
I'm just hoping to win a few 0 - 100 Hcps this time around - my eyes are more focused on the next league season next year

I don't even enter the league just play for fun and with the numbers after the names I am too lazy to change the horses names

You should consider it, your breeding stock would likely make you very competitive I should think.