Rickydarkblue wrote:
Hello Everyone, I'm ricky and a new player to starters orders. Been playing since around Christmas and played a couple of flat games. Have played one to about 10 seasons so have had a couple of generations of breeding with mixed results.
Firstly in my original season I got a pretty sweet original 6F sprinter called Peter Pole, who won me about 10 grade 1s in his 2 seasons before I retired to stud aged 5. Since retiring his stats have slowly detoriated over the years and my first question is does this carry over into his breeding, it appears his offspring aren't as good in the more recent seasons as opposed to his early foals. This wouldn't tie into genetics as he should pass on the same genes regardless of age but I'm not sure if this implemented into the game, if it is not then what is the ideal breeding age for stations.
Secondly is it worth me just keeping 1 top class stallion and breeding him with all the good mares or should I look to build up an army of stallions and match them with mares who seem to suit.
Peter Pole was a 5 and 6 furlong specialist, If I breed him with a stayer the average breeding is about 1.4 or 1.3 but they are usually terrible, and I just get rid of them at the end of their 3 year old season. What is the best Strategy to breed to 1m4 horse as if like to get a derby winner under my belt, I am dominating the 1mile and below divisions but can't get anything decent over 1m2...any tips?
Is absolute potential the be all and end all when assessing new 2 year olds?? I've put a few straight to auction if they don't make at least 70% pot still WhenI get them, is this the right way to go or should I hold on to the. For a year or two and see if they improve.
Any other breeding tips would be appreciated, I'm struggling to get any top class youngsters out.
Thirdly, is it ok for Peter Pole to mate with his children? Will Inbreeding cause problems with the horses??
Firstly in my original season I got a pretty sweet original 6F sprinter called Peter Pole, who won me about 10 grade 1s in his 2 seasons before I retired to stud aged 5. Since retiring his stats have slowly detoriated over the years and my first question is does this carry over into his breeding, it appears his offspring aren't as good in the more recent seasons as opposed to his early foals. This wouldn't tie into genetics as he should pass on the same genes regardless of age but I'm not sure if this implemented into the game, if it is not then what is the ideal breeding age for stations.
Secondly is it worth me just keeping 1 top class stallion and breeding him with all the good mares or should I look to build up an army of stallions and match them with mares who seem to suit.
Peter Pole was a 5 and 6 furlong specialist, If I breed him with a stayer the average breeding is about 1.4 or 1.3 but they are usually terrible, and I just get rid of them at the end of their 3 year old season. What is the best Strategy to breed to 1m4 horse as if like to get a derby winner under my belt, I am dominating the 1mile and below divisions but can't get anything decent over 1m2...any tips?
Is absolute potential the be all and end all when assessing new 2 year olds?? I've put a few straight to auction if they don't make at least 70% pot still WhenI get them, is this the right way to go or should I hold on to the. For a year or two and see if they improve.
Any other breeding tips would be appreciated, I'm struggling to get any top class youngsters out.
Thirdly, is it ok for Peter Pole to mate with his children? Will Inbreeding cause problems with the horses??
Welcome Ricky
Key thing in Breeding is to mix horses of differing distances
I recommend inbreeding it has worked for me many times infact you an come up with freakishly talented horses doing that.
Once a stallion or Mare gets past 10 in the barn i usually retire them as they can produce a mixed bag after a while they produce more
rubbish but don't worry about the stats bars deteriorating in barn this will not effect the offspring.
My recommendation is you have good sprint breeding lines and you are looking for that derby horse look for mares that you DONT own
in the breeding barn get you sprinter to cover 1m6 up to 2m4 Mares look for the mares that have a serious career strike rate
you get some with stats like raced 10 times won 8 races and 4 g1 also cover every Mare over 1m6 up to 2m4 that costs over £100,000 to cover the more it costs to cover them the more chance they will produce better horses
Breeding with gamebred mares can be very hit or miss but all you need is to produce one good mare or stallion and it will begin your breeding empire over that distance. You will see which ones to keep you will get alot of rubbish breeding with gamebreds but you do get the odd few that are very good as stated you only need to produce a decent mare and stallion and that will be the start of your empire.
As for the stat bars Potential is by far the most important
what too look out for in inspecting your 2yos is you want the potential bar to be mostly dark green the above image explains this
Horses with alot of light green very rarely if ever fill there potential to fully dark green i usually dump these horses that have under 75% of
There potential as light green the more dark the more precocious the better.
if something has alot of light green bu the stats bars look strong send it to stud
as you can see with the image above this horse has very strong stats but i would never race it
as he will never fill out his potential to dark green but is a brilliant stallion in the making
Sp Dont be scared to send unraced 2yo to the barn they can surprise you what they produce
I Think i have covered it all best of luck get breeding with them Mare stayers it might take you a little while
but that Derby win is around the corner
