Know it has happened before doug, I have profited and suffered from it. Just adding fuel to the fire that we need to burn the racekit on.
And I have always believed bars are only half the battle ever since my second league season and getting winners whilst looking at the images posted from Paul and the like knowing how far away my horses were on that basis, you and I spoke a little on it during that interview a few seasons back.
I have significantly advanced my thinking on this in prep for this league having pushed for bars and trailed throughout that journey, after adding big chunks from my original stock. Don’t get me wrong, get both together and your laughing and there is only so far the things we cannot see will take a bad horse, but they are not the be all and end all. I have even started to look at combinations, so for example full extra is nice but does that mean a horse just burns out faster and fades if constitution of low, something that is a main stat and ignored as much as battling qualities. Can bars actually make a horse worse without the other components? Run style etc, and I think there are clues in game horses too.
Not quite gotten my head around this and it is only a theory but there are defiantly combinations I look for in the NH now and these seem to be born out in trial.
