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I am doing the French schedule currently, I am looking specifically at the Prix De Ris-Orangis. In the link you gave it says it is being run at Deauville, but every other link I look at refrencing it says it is run at Maisons-Laffitte. Is it being moved just for the 2014 season, or is it a mistake in the the link you gave me?.


The link is to the official European Pattern Book for 2014, so it won't have any mistakes, although details of races are always subject to change. I know that a few changes were made to the French pattern this summer, with the Prix Jean Prat moving to Bastille Day being an example. Not sure about the Prix de Ris-Orangis, to be honest.

One thing to note, however, is that Longchamp is closing for work to be done after the Arc meeting, so the races it holds after this meeting have been temporarily moved for 2014, but will return to Longchamp in 2015.


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Just starting the Australia portion, renamed their Ascot to AU Ascot, to ensure the game didn't go bonkers. It probably would have been fine, but I just didn't trust it. Also in cases of race name duplicates, everything but the UK will have titles such as: US Champagne Stakes so that if used as preps the game can figure out which I am referring to.

Also should I start the year off with Australia's fall campaign changing the August races to January? Or should I just leave it as is? Since they age in August instead of January I think I'll make August be January, if I don't the prep schedule will be wacky, it'll also solve Dubai's NH/SH issues through this adjustment.

Edit: Now I am just not sure about doing Australia for now, the data I found didn't seem entirely trustworthy, looking for new data, but will need more opinions on if I should make August be January.

I can assist you here if you provide your email address I can provide a correct and up to date spread sheet of all the stakes races in Australia except the magic millions carnival which is in January.
The way SO6 schedule is designed, it has to start in August and end in July.
Can't avoid this.

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Also should I start the year off with Australia's fall campaign changing the August races to January? Or should I just leave it as is? Since they age in August instead of January I think I'll make August be January, if I don't the prep schedule will be wacky, it'll also solve Dubai's NH/SH issues through this adjustment.


You really have to put Australia's races on the correct dates, as the Melbourne Cup is a target for some European stayers at the end of the season - races like the Ebor and Irish St Leger could be used as preps. It's really the only Australian race that northern hemisphere horses would regularly target. The main issue with adding an Australian season to a UK-based schedule is the 2yo and 3yo races, as the 2yo and 3yo seasons are six months out of sync. Probably best just to leave those races out, and maybe only put races for older horses in.

There isn't really an issue with the Dubai races. Just put the northern hemisphere age restrictions in. The southern hemisphere age restrictions are irrelevant in the context of the game. All races should be 4yo+ apart from some of the sprints that are 3yo+ and obviously the 3yo-only races.


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Yeah I realized that the dates can't be changed, which is why I delayed it. It just wasn't working out properly in the beginning. I will pm you my email scatters, I am just not feeling the schedule I found, maybe it was correct, but it seemed weird over 1/2 the races were just open as in 2UP races, but when I checked wikipedia it would say that they were 3UP races, with a select few actually being 2UP.

I am testing what I have thus far, making sure it all runs right, seems to be going relatively good, have to edit the US schedule a bit more, I think MJ included some sponsor names and I try not to include those if I can help it. Weird problem though (I think as I have never played a UK game before this) there are no maidens for 2 yo's before the Coventry, so the field is always empty. I am going to try starting the game in the US to see if it is solely a UK thing, but it just doesn't seem right. I don't know how I could have possibly caused maidens to be removed from the schedule up until that point (I wouldn't even know how) all I can think of is that it happened in Mark's patch to correct the lack of stayer handicaps. Either that or somehow I messed up, I'll check in the US to see if it's weird there too as I am not really familiar with the UK, but I can't see having no maidens until after a stakes race being normal. Worst comes to worst I will manually enter in some maidens up until that point.

Edit: Realized I don't know how to pm people, maybe I have to add them as friends first? idk. I trust you guys anyway, alexis_taylor92@aim.com


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I wasn't aware we weren't allowed to share our email addresses. Why is this?


It's so the bots at the bottom don't pick it up and spam u a lot.


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I wasn't aware we weren't allowed to share our email addresses. Why is this?

Also, I can't even start the game in the US, pretty sure it must have something to do with the nat spread, seeing as how I have no idea how to edit that, when the rest of the mod is finished perhaps someone could edit it for me?


Image There's my nats spread.

1 England
2 US
3 Aussie
4 Ireland
5 France
6 Japan
7 Dubai
8 Germany
9 Canada
10 New Zealand
11 Hong Kong


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Why are they all 0s but with Australia a 5, I'll try it, but I'm just trying to figure out the whys of how it works.



O means no horses in that country
1 means a few
2 means more
5 I think is the most a outside country can have.

But I've seen 7 on one of the new schedules so perhaps it's goes up that high in this game, I think 5 was the most in SO 5.


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I always thought changing nat spreads was a lot more difficult :lol:. Seems rather simple when you figure out exactly what you are doing. Maybe that's with SO6 though and SO5 was more difficult.

Edit: The US has maidens from the first day of the season onward, I guess it's just a UK thing, kinda messes with the Coventry though, so I'll add some maidens into the UK schedule only when the time comes, sick of the first batch of UK stakes for 2 yos being a series of walkovers.


Our maidens kick off in March, the nat spreads are the same as last SO.


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I'm not getting any maidens until after the Coventry (June). I'll try fiddling with it to see what I did, I can't figure out how I could have changed that though...


I just had a look at the Uk one and found a lot of maidens at the end of march and beginning of April but not that many after up until June.


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You don't get 2yo maidens in the UK schedule until after the first feature race. It was specifically set up this way, as the Brocklesby Stakes at Doncaster in late March is traditionally the first 2yo race of the season, but prior to this new rule being added there would be lots of 2yo maidens from January onwards. If you remove the Brocklesby Stakes, you won't get any maidens until later in the season (after your first 2yo feature race).


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Ok I am caught up to the current 2014 US races, what have been ran thus far. I cannot seem to find a reliable source listing the upcoming races, even the bloodhorse 2nd quarter book has some issues, I do not believe there are two Firecracker stakes, and yet one was just ran on June 27, but the book says another will be run on July 2, with a different age requirement. The book also lists all races to December that have a set date, yet June wasn't even included in the first or second quarter book as if the month does not even exist. I am so confused. And if we are going in quarters (as the book title implies) wouldn't June be the end of the 2nd quarter?

I think I am just going to go with the 2013 schedule for the remaining races, unless someone can give me a source that actually makes sense.


The Firecracker stakes are two different races, one at Churchill and the other at Mountaineer. There is about 4 or 5 races called the Inaugural Stakes. The bloodhorse is as good as it gets, u could check them on each Tracks web site.

The tracks that open up at the end of the year like Tampa and Sunland will not have confirmed it's stakes calendar yet.


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any update on the us schedule part ax thanks for the hard work


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no rush im still playing my old save while I can


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Can we start your schedule in the us yet


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Ax thanks for the response i started a game last night and noticed that the dubai carnival races arent in but the german and irish are and i put the showcase file in


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