I have already put up a few of my decent horses for others to test in CK. (I know people have DL them )
Is there interest in people perhaps doing some sharing/testing? League doesn't start for months so some early swaps and testing might be fun

It will be interesting to see what times people are coming up with. Strangely I have a couple of horses around the 10f-12f mark who are more or less getting to the standard times for last year? At the other end of the scale I am way off with my sprinters & milers although that is what I would have expected starting from scratch again and I can slowly see the times being chipped away.

I have just about got enough horses to split my games up now into certain distances & when i did that last year I found big improvements, so I am hoping that is the case again this year!

I initially started the game with a claiming schedule I created, then bought every single good horse I could for 5-10 seasons and collected them in a transfer pool.
I then breed the best horses as I could see their stats, I've since then been sifting my best in a couple of 60 season games only concentrating on 8f maximum. I have 4yo's running around 1.38 @ Ascot, I totally concur I can see the chipping away of times now. I want sub 1.36 one day(another 100 seasons!!)

I certainly don't mind doing some testing though to be honest I'm still at the stage of breeding and getting the combination of stats I want. I had a HD crash and needed to reinstall my game. Unfortunately I didn't have a back up of my dat files on my work PC, just the horse files for CK testing (well it's a work PC and I wouldn't want someone to find too much evidence that I'm playing games though it's mostly over lunch/break times). I've had to restart breeding and I thought I'd start with the 10-16f mark as I had been doing sprinters till the crash and will redo them at some point. Believe me when I say the game files are now backed up in triplicate

FWIW I ran your horses through the CK against the horse files I had a few days ago just to see. IIRC and please correct me, you're off league standard times on the horses I downloaded.

I'll simply refer you to a previous post





That's where I'd gotten too for the 1m and under distances and where I'd expect to get to again once I start breeding those distances again.

Of the current batch I'm doing between 10-16f I've really only been testing 3 yr olds at 12f and at that stage I'm running off league standard pace by 0.5s. I think at 4/5 yrs of age they probably would be around league standard and of the one I did bother running to the end of his 4 yr old season that is the case.

I'm more than happy to trial a few horses and post results here if folk post horses to race against or to send the results to you in private if you prefer.

It's not that strange . Just sheer luck. Within two/three weeks of release I'd accidentally bred a horse that was running league standard at 7f. I do think detailed stats make breeding easier as you can see where you're going quicker.

After the HD crash I bred the horse in the post below between two game breds and this has proven a mainstay for the lines of horses I am breeding at the moment.

viewtopic.php?f=19&t=6715

The G's I posted were in no way my best ones, I will be happy to pop on my best ones for 5f,6f,1m



If your up for it, just post a couple of G's on the forum so that others can trial

I'm not sure what you mean by posting G's. At any rate the times are there, if you can beat them then great though those horses no longer exist due to said crash. If you're happy to post the hrs files then I'll run them against the ones I have from the work PC. Or feel free to post the best CK times you have and I can see if I can beat them or not.

Haha I think your right!

Having said that, because I have been 'restructuring' I havent actually bred from the couple of very decent ones I have, so hopefully a few more will pop up then