Gentlemen/Ladies,
I appreciate and am very thankful for the replies I got on my last posting. I am now in my game around 25 April 2015, I have accumulated over 122 million in the bank, of course most of it is from betting, I love the numbers and on any given day, I may place from 1-4 bets and win around 1-15 million. , easy part of the game. After reading through the forums, I am now watching other horses hoping they come up for auction to get them. Even though this is my maiden game, I do have a nice 2 y/o and 3 y/o and couldn't be happier with the luck of the draw when it comes to horses.......

Now been reading through the forums again, I came through something about maybe starting a few extra games and looking for a few horses to out into the transfer pool, I assume this is to help start my breeding starting next year. I do have a couple questions now.....

(1) Again, I seen where it says to breed with the game horses, G1, with like 15 G1 wins? Does the G1 wins really matter?

(2) I have noticed that the female horses do not come close to matching their male counter parts, is that normal?

Thanks for any help on this.

P.S.

I also noticed that someone says to restart your season after 40-50 years, why is that? After you have spent that much time putting together a breeding line that hopefully rules the online league, why would you want to restart?

Winning G1s is very important but not always necessary - as long as your lesser horse has attributes that you desire to introduce into your breeding pool then it can be a positive. But be warned you may and probably introduce traits that you don't want from your lesser horse.

You will always get fillies and mares that are champs against their own sex and occasionally you'll get a mare that will beats the boys consistently - she's the one you want to be breed your best stallions with.

On the Female/Male question, I normally find that in my games the best horses are actually females I've bred. Not sure if that's accurate for others or not but I'd rank 8 of my top 10 horses ever to be females that I've bred.

Visually, so on paper the colts do I agree seem better than than the fillies, but then given they have their own suite of races at 3yo, and indeed 2yo, I do not find the comparison all that telling, at 5yo the same fillies sometimes beat the colts in that year class sometimes not and some of my best chasers are mares.

I would say early on, where you are in game, a good Colt is easier to find than a good filly and a lot more useful as he can in theory have a foal every 14 days. Your best early fillies will likely be those you breed, but check the oaks and 1000 guin winners (or your schedule equal) and you can try and get them in auction or at least have a one year breeding shot if they retire.

You also mentioned breeding games. What I do and this is just one approach is run 5 games, my main flat and jump game I play, manually train and watch the races. I also run three breeding games, which I originally seeded with the pick of my main games two and three year olds; ran a season with the 6 best transferred in to make cash mostly on betting, not hard to make millions when your horses are sure fire winners in their first races at roughly 40/1. Then transfer in the balance build the stable and breed. I then run the breed game a few seasons to dilute the breeding pool, roughly 5 or so, retiring to the barn each seasons crop (unless their is a stand out monster) after which I run the season with the horses at two, take them over to three with the game saved at the end of what was their two year old season, race them in the 3yo classics, so up to the st ledger. I then export them all and trial them against my best currently in my league consideration team. The best 12, I then transfer into my main game, 6 end of season and 6 first day of the new, same on the jumps, back when they are 2yo as I pool all new breeds at 2yo so I can come back to them. I then run these along with the horses breed in that game and re-export at 3yo if I need to add any instructions. The breed game is then taken back to the save point end of year, and I retire all 3yo to the barn. I also use the pool of these horses at 3yo, or the unused 2yo copies to cross pollinate into the other breed games if I have something special so I can race and breed those horses in parallel.

Takes a bit of time and effort managing all the streams, but typically I have around 200 to 250 horses over the five games each year to pick from. Just speeds the whole thing up without taking away from being able to play the game without concerning myself on league performance.

Josh