SO7 Trials Day 3 Races

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inPNcRM ... TVUL0wiZMz

Thanks to martin for coms

Gray

All my horses were entered in the wrong races.

Lucky you! None of my horses were entered up.

Gray did you receive my email dated 09/12/2019 17:02 from C.Beckwith?

I have no idea how the hell I just won the first two races

My horse struggle to win races in game

I won 2 dirt races and my other two ran in grass races and finished mid field , did my horses win because they are dirt bred I have no idea

No mate the only deleted Message on the 9th for horse files is Darren Thompson's e-mail request.


Gray

Ok. No problem.

I usually get a message when an email didn't get received. Oh well onto the league and will find out then if my horses are good enough.

Hope everyone else did as well as expected or better if you were lucky and good look in the league, see you there.

The flat performances were in line with expectations, only glimmer of hope comes from the third place by what’s the catch. My shorter distance horses are likely to be the best I have right now.

Very pleased with how my jumpers faired with a collection of places, after having only recently started serious league breeding, work to be done but I know what i need to fix and the foundations look solid. The next generation already look better. Congratulations to Leon for his clean sweep, will do my best to give you a challenge

Enjoyed watching the trails.

Those tight ass american tracks Anything behind mid field with hold up horses you don't have a chance of making up any ground.

2yo sprint division looks mighty competitive. Blanket finish at the end of the trail race.

Massive congrats to Leon. Very impressive showing mate. I've not really played my combined game for around 7/8 weeks and it showed. Definitely room for improvement though with some good placed efforts. My time will be very limited next year, but will hopefully have a stables for both Flat and Jumps.

Congrats to all the winners.

Very Happy with my horses performance. Even my flat horses ran well, and I managed to pick up a winner.

My NH horses were superb, was very surprised I managed to win all 6 Nh races, with Gi Joe and Unendliche Geschichte ( Never Ending Story in German ) been particular impressive. They will both be in league not sure at what age though. Unendliche Geschichte is way way better when reaching 6. It looks like there may be good progression in NH now, as my 6 year olds ran well, and I know my 7 year olds are best, with my 8 year olds very close to the 7yo. There might be something in changing NH so that Novice races are restricted to 5Yo, because clearly they are way inferior to horses 6 and above. Even my 10yo will easily beat a 5YO no matter how good the 5yo turns out to be. This is a great change in SO7. Also in breeding some sires are better at siring Nh horses. 3 of my horses in the NH trials were by Svengali ( never won a race on the flat ) In fact most of my Nh horses were sired by horses that never won on the flat

And yes flat cast offs just aren't any good. In my combined game I have noticed this. Its very rare that a horse is good over fences and the flat. Also horses have to run over fences. If you trial them without running them over fences they are useless even if the stats say they can jump, they don't have to run well over jumps to trial well but that have to have run. Learnt that already

My horses were exactly where I expected them to be, they were, almost without exception, tailed off at the back. The only race where they finished mid division was the 2m4f race and I have several of a similar standard so I may concentrate on breeding them.
I do think I have found a very good flat stallion in the barn but he keeps producing horses that want heavy ground and that may take a lot of breeding out (more time than I have).
Big congrats to Leon, those jumpers are phenomenal. The flat looks more balanced.
A big thanks to Gray for all the organisation.
And last but not least, A massive thanks to Martin for running horses that kept mine company and prevented me from finishing last in every race . Can me and martin please have some 0-40 races just for us?

I wouldn't worry about ground, my dirt horses seem to want slow/dirt soft ground but I just keep breeding the best to the best plus if soft ground comes up on the flat u'll have a advantage. Most of my jump horses want faster ground. I'd say instead of trailing over good ground try good to soft. Thanks Martin for the comms.

Very true John.
It is possible that I will have a stable full of low grade handicappers that will suddenly bolt up when we get heavy ground.

Darren I think it's worth between 7 and 10 pounds. In SO6 my soft ground jumpers and only with each other and the same with the good ground and if I ran my soft ground horses on better ground i'd say they would be well over 14 pounds worse off, actually they would be useless. I think it can help if u horses has a bit off both in its pedigree.

Heavy ground 2m4f horse will normally will be a really good jumper from 7 onwards.

I really enjoyed Martin's commentary, really makes the races way better to watch and thanks Gray for all the time you put in to making the races happen.