I can still do all of the above. Effectively I can create a horse of equal or better quality every three years. It just all happens in the same game. I just have to reload more until the RNG gives me the best possible outcome for a pairing - or the best possible pairing after cycling through available Colts. Currently I accept if I don't get five horses of top quality in a year.. which I couldn't do anymore. It just changes the approach but not the result.

Once I have a decent stock of self bred horses I can sustain that quality, and improve on it, even without ttf files. Only restriction might be the limit on 150 horses if you want to breed for multiple distance. If you go all the way to that limit I reckon you can breed multiple distances and crossbreed between distances all the same. In the end the horse almost as good as before, just that I have one save in season 500 instead of multiple saves where I restart.

Not saying we can't get rid of ttf's if that's the general consensus. I would miss it dearly, but even that is manageable. To be honest I have never taken part in an online league and have always bred this way, even during SO5. Just playing devils advocate here.

I'm Sorry but if that's the best way to play this game then I would be out, the way u play the game is tedious and there's no fun in even playing the game(btw I don't see that as playing the game). U can bred all the monster's in the world but this game is nothing but a number's game to u, Why not go play Bingo or Sudoku. U have no fun in breeding horses or even playing the game, have u ever seen any of u horses run.

One thing that hasn't been mentioned is the fact that essentially I am playing two separate games within a save at all times, and removing ttf's would make one of those likely impossible.

1. Breed with my imported horses to achieve an even better horse.

2. Running an auction bought horse trying to give it the best possible career.

These go hand in hand for me. I agree that there is limited joy to be had in taking 10L of Frankel time and time again, but that doesn't mean I want my options to be restricted. I want to be able to breed while playing and enjoying taking a horse from a 30 rating to ~90 hoping to win a listed race.. or cursing after once again coming in second in a group 3 race.

I run more horses actually belonging in claimers than you I bet. I just enjoy the chase for the "perfect" horse too. I don't like the fact that you keep berating me for how I choose to breed.

I read everything u write and I'm sorry but it never comes across ( right or wrong) that u enjoy the Game( it is a game), it feels like more a project to breed the Perfect horse. I'm not berating u breeding( many ways to skin a cat) but I'm telling u that IF u way of breeding was the best and quickest way to bred good horses I would never do it, I like/love breeding horses but I get enjoyment out of it. I love naming all my horses with real life horses that I remember, my US flat game is something I spent a lot of time on making the courses/ colours/schedules and I get great enjoyment out of it even if there was never to be a league.

I think u only play this game so u can dominate a league if or when it start's, u want to be the Big Cheese.