I was the only person who accused Andy, I overreacted and jumped to conclusions but to be fair he was defending himself before anyone mentioned him and that made me suspicious.

Joe you were the only one to issue a direct accusation (which actually I don't have a problem with as I'm always happy to come back with my defence). There were posts to the effect hoping that no one had used this for the league and it's simply logic that this was going to come at me simply because of the lead I have over everyone else and I felt the need to preempt the argument.

I have posted in technical support and I stand by my offer to provide all files I have for Mark to look at. I can trace every horse I have in the league back to pretty much the game horses (and in fact have the save files for those game horses as the fillies/mares were in the breeding barn and I saved the game prior to import) and that's as much as I feel I can do to make it clear that I have not used this exploit.

In fact I hope Mark will post that he is looking at this then we can simply move forward pending his review. Hopefully his statement will include something along the lines of closing this loophole up and disallowing such horses in the league which will make it easier for those of us who are actively breeding for the next season to continue with the normal methods secure in the knowledge we won't have to worry about trainers using this exploit.

Fair play, hopefully get a quick response from Mark, I take it everyone is experimenting with this just now and it would good to know if horses will be eligible for the league next season or not.

experamentings not the word im like frankenstein creating monster after monster (was going to do a sinister laugh but couldnt think of the letters to use) but what i am doing is keeping them all seperate as i dont want them in my league blood lines just in case. newbies dont mix your horses.or you might not be able to enter BE WARNED.....

Personally speaking I am not and as I've stated before I don't have the time to play as much as some. I've bred 7 horses using this exploit and am not planning to do any serious breeding until Mark clarifies the situation. I don't think it's fair that people buying this game and playing this should be constrained to play a certain way to be successful for the league especially as this information may not come to their attention right away.

Perhaps someone can clear this up. Has anyone tried this at other distances? Is this replicable throughout every distance? I'm sure someone has tried and perhaps they can answer here so that I don't have to try this for myself.

i am planning on sprinters and milers might get some done this afternoon will let you know

i think the problem lies within the calender year as the aussie year extends from 1 year to the next so in effect a 2 yo in UK is actually a 3yo in OZ so when you start as a 3yo inGB what u actually have is a 4yo does that make sense?

Yes and I'm hoping that's the simple fix that allows identification of these horses and also a software patch to simply return them to the normal performance.

also noticed that in ck they have the aus flag but the file shows as uk

Yes I noted the flag too. However does this apply to next generation if bred? That's the question and does the improvement transfer through the lines for horses bred within the UK once transferred from Aus. Mark really needs to clarify all these things as I'm sure its a simple thing to look at the files and confirm what does/does not happen and how to patch this or what the solution is.

I'm not sure everyone understands what I mean by maxing potential for these Aussie horses. Going to try and show this one last time.



The top bar shows the max potential I can get in a UK bred horse at 3. This is for something like nearly 800 horses I have bred. I have never seen a max potential bar like that for the Aussie bred horses as seen in the lower max potential bar in this picture.

If anyone has a UK bred horse that they think has max potential like the Aussie bred ones than feel free to post one here to disprove my theory. I think it is impossible with a UK bred horse to fill the bar as shown in the second bar in this picture. As you can see in the top potential bar it is not quite full (also can be compared against the constitution bar which is full).

What needs to be tested but so far as far as I can see hasn't been is whether how well Aussie bred 3yos perform in cl when exported from Australia compared to when they are exported to the uk and then exported to ck. if the performance increase comes when they are transferred to the uk then the improvement is in the transferring and not the increased potential and that's where the problem lies.

I can confirm that. The horses exported in Aussie schedule don't run as well as when imported to then Uk and exported there.

So the real issue is that horses are markedly improving when transferred and is in fact irrespective of the increase in potential?