Just a few major notes to look for in the schedule (most concern California):
-Santa Anita meet extended to mid July (The Gold Cup will be later now)
-Los Alamitos summer is now in April, as will be Los Alamitos Derby
-American Oaks at Santa Anita will be in December
-Futurity and Starlet won't be run at Los Al in 2016. No decision on where they will be held so I just moved them to Santa Anita.

Also, made a new race course for Santa Anita. Will post pictures later.

The New Santa Anita:

Can you please release the schedule

Not yet. I'm currently testing it to make sure that it works properly. Should be released by the middle of the week if all goes well.

Could you please post a pic of the derby winner from one of your tests of the new schedule

Graded Stakes Changes for 2016 have just been released. I am editing my schedule to reflect those changes. Expect everything to be posted later today or tomorrow.

Can't wait MJ. Just curious will all the new content be on a seperate download? Or will you have the new content plus the old on the same download? I think i might be missing a few things so i was just curious.

Thanks

All of the data files are all new. Santa Anita will also have a new map (I will post steps to setting that up). All of the gfx that are new will be in a folder as well. This will be one download that will encompass all that. If you have any courses that you think you may be missing, I can make you a zip file for download that has those.

Ok great. Thanks MJ really appreciate all the hard work you put into keeping this game at the top.

Start It 2.330 has now been released. This is version 1. It contains a brand new schedule for the 2016 calendar year for North American racing. It is fully prepped (even the listed races are prepped). There is a bug in it that will have 3yos run very aggressive schedules compared to other aged horses (like running 22 times a year). I will report this bug to Mark. The bug is not the schedule but rather the game (doesn't happen with older horses are 2yos). You can add more horses (maybe like 5000 more in the game pool). There are over 40,000 new names added to the database based on real names from the past 15 years. I have more to add, so there will be larger databases of names in the future.

Due to the vast amount of races, there is no international racing outside of racing from Canada, but you can easily add races in. DON'T use the editor to add races, used a program like Notepad. The editor has a max amount of races that can be in the schedule but the game does not, so Notepad will let you add more races to the schedule.

Now, for downloading instructions. Download the zip file on the first page. BEFORE putting the zip folder contents into your Starters Order 6 folder, back up all files and then delete the course named 2_Santa Anita from your 3D>Courses folder. Then, you can overwrite your files with the files in the folder. There shouldn't be any problems as the game will run using just these files as well as courses from past downloads, not any other data files. If you are having any problems, feel free to contact me.

If you find any bugs in the schedule (which can occur... when you have 1,800 races, it is pretty easy to make a mistake and a lot harder to catch said mistake), just comment and I will update the schedule.

Hope you enjoy! Once a month (just about), I will release a new version of the schedule to reflect the changes to the track schedules for 2016 (once they release them). Most of the schedule is purely speculation as well as some creative license (mainly with Southern California schedule, which will be vastly changed in 2016).

Great schedule so far MJ. I noiced that in last years schedule there would be a few horses that would run both days of the breeders cup. Were you able to address that issue with this schedule? Im only in February and everything looks great so far.

Thanks

Sadly not. It's something Mark will need to address. The game mechanic is not giving horses enough time off if the purse is high enough for the race.

Mj can you please make Indiana grand for your schedule

Rename the maps file from Indiana Downs to Indiana Grand and the folder from 2_Indiana Downs to 2_Indiana Grand. Sorry bout that. Thought I added the course to the download.

CORRECTION:
Indiana Grand was in the download and should appear in game if you are using all of the data files that were attached in the download.

OK I'll check the next time I play the last time I played was the day the new schedule came out just to look at it. And I didn't notice the Indiana oaks or derby so I thought I would let you know thanks for the reply