Ignore me at your peril

Been a strange season for me. Lots going on outside of here and very busy with work.

Thought I had fallen behind a bit but I think its more others improving and coming in. Especially on NH where I kept finishing 5th in wins (4th once) but Daniel and John coming back, Paul, Del and Matt improving, Vinny joining the NH and Jim and Padraig dropping in and out has really taken a chunk of races away from me that I used to quite often win over the past couple of seasons. Also not getting the quantity of hunter wins I used to get. The fact that Darren Thompson who normally finishes 4th is down by me again this season bears this out. All good for the league in the long run though.

Bizarrely, Annie Golden has turned into my best ever horse really winning Irish and American Gold Cups and the G3 Hennessy at Newbury. I probably owe John Morgan a drink for those wins as I am sure his pacemakers set her up for the wins. Other strange thing is she is by far the 'oldest' horse in my stable and could have been in before. Sire and dam both won in Season 1 of SO7 if memory serves.

Flat has been mostly a disaster but did win my first ever proper level weights/wfa G1 on the flat last week when Harq won the Racing Post Trophy. Never saw that coming. I don't count those odd lower rating G1 races as proper G1 wins. I don't think anyone else does either and they really were a bit of a condescending addition to placate lower trainers when the minimum rating for some G1s came in. Glad to see that was either forgotten or scrapped this week at Breeders Cup as at least one lower rated horse won and quite a few got placed.

Full season evaluation when season end. One last thing to try and achieve next week and then will see where we go from there.

A more group1 races. There’s not enough

If we get another season in So7 then I'm having a full flat team. I'm coming for U and Josh

We can swap, you can go full on and I shall just pop in for the odd G1

Those front runners will be tough to catch on the dirt! I’ll be disappointed if they’re not Grey too

I have been trying to work grey and white into my NH lines for ages, it never sticks. Colour far more useful as a horse indicator than it should be.

I have it in my flat game but it’s a NH line.

And I won’t be hard to catch, no new games for me and those I have are on or approaching their ceiling.

Has expected a bad season was expected after a year of Health and life problems and moving back to Wales and no playing the game with lots of things happening but did better than i expected in both codes on the flat to stayers already in my saves.

Hoping to get some decent Jumpers for next season which i am hoping Alex can arrange it for November for six weeks then Christmas Break before the rest of the season in January because even if the game come out later this year we would need at six months before all the bugs are sorted in the new game before O8 season starts.