Re: Good young horses but no chance at the Triple Crown
Hey Jango, thanks I appreciate the feedback! Not done videos in a long while (job promotion, moved home, etc... life has gotten busy lately) but want to get back to that by the summer.
This is actually 12-13 days into the season, and those 2yo's have only ran their maiden so they are (were) pretty new. The StartIt is a US flat modded schedule and there seems to be a lot more short distance horses in that than a UK sched. I fell in love with a 1973 book (
The Race, and a 2010 film (
Secretariat both of which deal with the Kentucky Derby/Triple Crown. I watched a few Grand Nationals etc but never got into British racing much (originally from Wales, moved stateside to marry an American woman) so that's why I play 99% US - and the best for that is the StartIt Mod imho.
I've had quite a few great horses that won the Triple Crown fairly easily in past versions, but since the game updated 4-5 versions ago (and the mod updated 1-2 times in that period too) I just haven't had success breeding past 1m which is just a little too short for the first two Triple Crown races, and a half-mile under the third distance. It sucks because that's my main focus in the game, but I still enjoy breeding some sprinters as they are as good as ever.
Just wanted to vent mostly, and see if anyone else was finding similar issues.