No worries Kev

I'm avoiding putting in real horses names (past and present), so I am weeding out the "Kauto Star's", "Refuse to Bend's" etc as well as taking out crappy names like "Flossy", "Billy" and "Bobby" etc.

I have recorded just in excess of 1,200 new names that I have input myself, so estimate I will have added about 1,350 new ones by the time I am finished. Quite a task!

Panther I have a question. I am adding jumps from USA, Japan and NZ and I was goin to edit the Natspread on the jumps schedule to include a small number from each country. But I was wondering will this create a problem with their trainers and their jockeys as their jockeys are only flat and so are the trainers, or would the game put British/Irish jockeys on their horses or would it just make their jockeys carry more weight, and would the trainers who are normally flat train the jumpers as well?

The numbers determine the amount of horses from each overseas country in the game at any time, and the countries are in the following order in the file:

UK (always leave this as it is in the default file), USA, Australia, Ireland, France, Japan, UAE, Germany, Canada, New Zealand, Hong Kong.

Changing the numbers for each overseas country in the UK schedule files means the following:

0 - Country not represented (no horses, no trainers, no jockeys)
1 - 22/23 horses
2 - 45 horses
3 - 90 horses
4 - 135 horses
5 - 180 horses
6 - 225 horses

You can't go any higher than this. These amounts are a guide only - you may find that it's plus or minus one or two horses in any given season. When you include horses for an overseas country, it means that all jockeys and trainers are activated for that country.

For any overseas country that you include in your UK game, you will find their horse pool is divided in four, with the same number of 2yo, 3yo, 4yo and 5yo. Overseas horses automatically retire after their 5yo season, to be replaced by the new 2yo. This keeps the overseas pools at the same size throughout the game.

Does this mean the Natspread is set for all countries? (ie I am using a full UK flat schedule.) Or do I change the Natspreads for the Frecnh races, Dubai races etc?
Or do I only set it the once for the game overall? Hope that makes sense.

Ok, so that means that on my UK schedule if I select "Ireland" to X5 I will get about 225 Irish horses in my UK schedule?

And will those 225 horses mainly race in my scheduled Irish races rather than French/Dubai/N American races etc?

So that means the N.American races should fill up with N. American horses first even with a low "Natspread"? Except for 3yo only races which just fill up with any top horses?

Is that right?

I've finished updating my horse list - 2 months work and in excess of 2,000 new names added!!

Now I can start a proper game at last