Breeding for the league is the worst thing in so5 and must be changed for so6. Well it's a tie with the racekit.

Paul I cant remember who said it but someone made a remark perhaps a month ago, perhaps it was tongue in cheek.

Breeding is the most important part of the game (and fun as well like breeding a 2 miler with a 5f sprinter what will you get in a couple of season's time).
Ive just looked through me old paper records and found out Funkmaster's breeding nothing special He came from a filly called Steve's Crown who was average build average distance was 1m2f and liked good ground the father was called Real Onion who was small build average distance 1m2f and liked good ground.
When Funkmaster arrived he was a small built colt who's average distance was 1m2f and liked good ground.
In game Funkmaster earned me £18,686,365(before 5th place prize money).

Topiths came from a filly called Pie In The Sky who was a small build average distance 1m2f and liked 1m2f the stallion was a horse called Topethos who was also a small built horse who's average distance was a mile and also liked good ground.
In game Topiths won 21/29 races picking up £20,009,515 in prize money.Won the Judmonte Stakes at York aged 8.
Only saved her till 5 though:\
So is there an advantage with your horse's build small.average.large? I have tried to train the large built horses and it normally ends up pear shaped:smokin
Steve C

maybe tongue in cheek mate.

i think i have bred well over 100,000 horses in so5 could be alot more
i empted my recycle bin the other day and there were 13,000 in it
i think i only empty it a few months ago

Paul there's nothing better than winning any race with a horse u spent a lot of hours on.

I hope u gave them 100,000 horses a good home.

also found that one of the best horses ive had came out of a game bred x home bred(average) shoot the pot from last season won 2 G1s food for thought as for shortcuts I have none just bred best with best (ck) and gradually improved although this was cut short by andys advice to just breed 3yos with max potential think the shortcut maybe finding a fresh line (gamebred) to keep the lines fresh only theory and I wont be trying now as I am all SO5D out

agree with everything you have said mate good points there
i also took andys advice and just kept breeding 3yo and that cut down some time

Also your point on using gamebreds to freshen lines up (tried it and did not work it was a backward step once you get through several gens in
your breeding its a rarerty that a gamebred will make any difference in my experience it was a big backward step in CK anyway)

Maybe worth throwing your best lge horses into a uk game and breed a couple gens you could have g1 horses
you have already done the hard work breeding your lge team
would love to see if i am right that your new UK breds would be a couple lengths clear of your USA lge horses

Well I bred a few from my best small builds and raced in the US schedule and came up with some useful horses. No top trialers.

Then I took my best small build sire and my best mare of all-time (average build) and bred them in the UK schedule using my all group 1's schedule. So far I've got 3 killers (out of five foals) who have shaved half a second off my best trial times. Each foal dropped is a small build from the two mixed build parents. I find that interesting because the mare (average build) is by far the more genetically special horse. You'd think she would drop an average build at least once.

Looks like I'll have some handy subs.