Yeah but to be fair, if it had come up on my trainer screen and someone had told me I would have ctrl-alt-deleted that day anyway. I like this particular game to be perfect. I have another game for 'realism'.
ANYWAY to update you all on my horse that passed on, it turns out that the idiot trainer actually retired it along with a load of other horses to add to her game with a schedule for all the horses needing odd or poorly catered for distances 2m2f, 2m3f, 2m4f, 3m handicaps etc. So this horse is in fact safe and sound with a whole group of mares in the transfer pool. He wrote me a postcard which is how I found out, he said he's having a wonderful time, him, another very promising 2m4f colt and another 10 mares. He said he now can't wait to begin his second career!
