I agree that Group horses should be able to change distance as it would be good to see horses stepped up to face a different challenge, but I dont agree with the last bit. You would just end up with everyone having false ratings, making maidens somewhat pointless in the first place.

but I dont agree with the last bit. You would just end up with everyone having false ratings, making maidens somewhat pointless in the first place.

Without a handicapper you will get false ratings any way so all maidens will be pointless.

Not necessarily, the top trainers wont be interested in getting a handicap mark, if they have a 1m2 horse it will be in a 1m2 maiden, maidens could be split between horses who are there to win and those who are out for a mark as in real life, if the "top trainers" horse dosent make the grade they will have to go for handicaps against the smaller trainers whos horses might be well handicapped. So it might be a little leveller between the division of trainers that people are assuming there will be.

I think if it was allowed, everyone would have a good chance of a winner at some point and as ive said, it makes the league more realistic.

Just to be clear, there has never been any restrictions on distance for graded and listed races. The restrictions were only for handicap races. Graded horses can fluctuate and run any distance they want any week.

This is right, Guineas winner can definitely run in the Derby.

I would be very surprised if a horse won both in the League. If you have a horse that is your best one at a mile and 1m4f then it's more likely your other horses are poor.

This schedule thing is very tricky

I think that last seasons schedule needs a bit of trimming and refining, can you use that as a base to start with? Or is it a whole new schedule?

will there be real commentary because that would be amazing

I think that this is probably the way to go. Is everyone happy with me cutting down on the "weird" distance races like 9f, 11f etc?

Its a big yes from me...

Absolutely

There has been in previous seasons but need people to step up and do it now as all of the trainers have retired or taking a break.

i would love to do it but i just dont know how to commentate in horse racing..im just a newbie.lol...hope some people will commentate though this season that would be great..

I will do some comms, enjoyable!

Always good getting real comms done. Really adds to the race. I hope to do more of that this season, if we can cut the schedule down a bit it's makes it a lot quicker to run and therefore leaves more time.