I am curious how others choose the horses they breed with.

Do you go soley on G1 wins? or combined Group total wins? how important are Group wins compared to stats to you

Do you try to match up stat bars with 2 horses or try to mix and match? (ex being 2 horse both the same strengths or mix it up each horse strong in the others weakness)

Do you cross breed your lines, breed back off-spring to parents or full on inbreed each off-spring with each other? Do you breed your homebreds back to any gamebreds for any reason?

How do you do determine which off spring is the best of the bunch when your 2yo crop comes in?

Do you keep horses that have a max or near max potential bar but less than appealing stats in other areas like confidence or consitency?

I ask these questions more as a guidline to get a discussion going. I am curious how others handle there breeding when they move through seasons. My results so far have not been stellar. In my tests so far i've had some stallions and mares with really good potential bars but awful stats elsewhere. I have yet to see a gamebred with the battleing bar higher then 1/8th full.

I have 2 stallions and 2 mares now that each have 20 group 1 wins i am going to start breeding them but some of their stat bars like cruising burst or finish application are on the low side as well as battling ability.

I know people don't want to give away secrets or to much information due to the league but any general guidelines or advice is welcomed to get a discussion going.

I don't mind letting people know what I do. I base it all on the CK or game times as to whether a horse gets to the breeding barn.

Then I breed fairly randomly, I try and give my mares at least one attempt with all my top stallions although their first attempt will usually be with the one I think will do best. If that doesn't do very well then they go on the watch list. I don't tend to breed too far beyond their preferred distances. Like a 5f stallion would breed with a max 1m4f mare.

I find horses with high battling abilities to be pretty poor, finish application seems to be fairly important and I like confidence to be high.

For me past breeding performance is the most important factor.

From what I've seen all the stats but potential seem to completely redundant. I've got horses with good stats that can't win group races, horses with poor stats that are unbeaten.

I have never entered the league so I've never bred for it. I just go with the horses most successful in game. I do however look for horses that post quick times for the ground condition, particularly at Ascot or Newmarket and breed with them as much as possible. I rarely breed with computer barn horses though because they are almost always shite. Only when they have beaten my own horses a lot will I breed with them.

Every year I evaluate the horses in my barn and if a mare has produced 3 or 4 foals and it's never been up to much she is retired, I give stallions more like 4 crops to give them a chance. I try not to retire too many to stud each year, 5 max fillies/mares and 3 max stallions to make sure that only my best go to stud and so my stable doesn't become unmanagable next season because I find it too time consuming and annoying, even if it probably does cost me some monsters!

i think the new stats are completely irrelivant
i have seen horses with amazing stats struggle to win a listed race
and some of my hombreds have 70% pottential bar win 10s of g1s

The old bars are pretty mediocre as a indicator but I find the new bars really useful.

Some of the bars aren't static. The jumps bar is an obvious one but another is the potential bar. ( I'm not talking about the light green piece ). The potential bar can be at 70% ( including the light green piece ) at 2 and full at 5. But a high potential bar has prevented me selling horses that have turned into superstars ( More than 10 group 1 wins ) later in their careers.


I find the ground and distance adaptability bars really useful and really help with breeding. I also avoid breeding with horses with low confidence or low constitution. The extra speed bar rating seems to be really important. Yet to see a good horse with a low speed bar rating.

For Jumps a high jumping speed potential is brilliant.

Anyone ever seen anything on the maturity rate bar.

Anyway my results are the best they ever been. Running faster times in the ck after only 24 seasons than last year. Not sure if that is because of the new version of SO or just better breeding. Any way for game purposes never had as much success as I'm having now. New game is brilliant especially happy with the hold up horses not running into pockets. Best improvement in the game in my opinion