1 winner so far this week but a few encouraging runs but unfortunately my stable is what it is a load of cast offs but do have 3 or 4 good uns

good to see a tight battle at the top congrats all runners

Paul u are on to something because I've done the same as u , most of my horses on the flat are now dirt breed and have amazing bars but are rubbish . There must be something to it. Gray can u turn all the races to dirt races

It was great to have the Pardubicka but what an earth happened at the first bend. Everything on the outside got shuffled way back and almost half the field were effectively out of the race by third fence which was a shame.

Yep - that was crazy. Great looking track, Gray but that first bend needs looking at. To the eye there didn't seem much of a bend in the first place so it was quie a surprise seeing half the field get almost abruptly shuffled back and strung out.

My National Number 1 trailed in second last I LOVE THAT BEND

For me it's the opposite - last season and already this season I am getting the message that my horses don't like 'kick back'. Which sucks for me as a lot of races are on dirt and AW in the lower handicap races. Not sure what has happened but the three seasons before that none of my horses had problems on dirt.

LOL yeah I did notice that

Do you trial on the dirt Doug? I had some good horses on the turf but left them out because they performed poorly on dirt. As you said a lot of our standard races are on dirt so made sense to leave them out.

I think there's more holes in the game than a Swiss cheese, I think if u run say 11 grass horses against u best dirt horse on dirt they will look better than if u run 8 dirt horses against 4 grass horses. The make up of the field changes the trials. I really hate this game because a horse I bred over 2 years ago bridled turn won and yet ny new hurdlers suck. Another thing I hate is that 2 or 3 horses will run way below form in every trial, just look at the horses who finish in the last 2 or 3 and how far behind they are compared to how good they are.

Most courses in the game need looking at, kempton is the worst course of them all, have a look at mine and Kev horse in the kauto chase, they loose ground for no reason, it's another flaw in the game.I just shrug my shoulders now when it happens because u know it's going to happen otherwise u could pull u hair out and I don't have a lot to pull out

What also needs to happen no matter if it is Mark or any other player building race tracks (especially if used for the league) is they need to google that track and build it to spec. 2000m start at Flemington in the league is on the apex of the turn when in real life it is at the top of the back straight. It is not the only track in the league where a race starts on the apex of a bend. I know it's a small thing but it gives me a twitch.

This season i didn't have time to trial at all. I will make a note of my horses who don't like kick back and keep them away from dirt over the course of the season.
It's the reason i pulled my American game - I transfered some Aussie horses with nice bars to kick start things and most of them didn't like kick back - strange as in my Aussie game it doesn't seem to happen when i race in America or Dubai. So now i juggle my Australian game with an English jumps game and seed my jumps game with cast off horses from Oz.

That can't be changed because it's the computer program that does that, to build a course u actually use the track picture of Google maps but the program works out the size of the course. I built a 5 furlong US course that the computer thought it was around 4 furlongs. Mark has said he's not looking to mess with the game play so I suppose it's going to stay the same. I think mark changed the way the bends work in game before so perhaps someone should tell him about the problem.

Maybe something to do with MODS in general, this is the same game we have played for 8 seasons and it does not have AI so it cant learn to get progressively worse or better, its possible the updates from SO have caused all these foibles....

So suggesting this season is worse than any other doesn't make any sense, the RK/CK hasn't changed, is it peoples individual set-ups on their computers for Race Runners ? I doubt that also, as most of the Race Runners prob trial with the same RK that they run the league races with.

Perhaps the Race runners could maybe look at the league races they run and see if their horses run to form, then check when they run in a league race run by someone else and see if the problem arises, which would point to individual set-ups. (which also makes no sense)


This post has nothing to do with courses, that's another issue entirely & needs addressing