Horse Racing Fantasy Community

Hi theoph1000 i do not have any horse as yet but from reading a few blogs in community forum it seems that your problem is quite a common one and there are extra factors involved in race tournaments like horses competitiveness, heart etc and whether they are getting boxed in or cut off or caught wide on the turns or if they are front runners they may pack it in if taken on for the lead etc. hope this helps as i am only new see ya

What I also think these super horses who are no longer super horses when they go in a tournament brings up the fact that maybe those 80s horses you have in your own game are better than you thought because they have lots and lots of courage and that makes their legs move faster and beat those 120 horses in the tournaments.. So, not only is the 110 horse who has no courage a disappointment, people very well could be retiring horses who have lots of courage because they run like slugs in the game but then eat their spinach on tournament day.... Aint that a kick in the head..

Alot of people in there testing are testing in practice verus weak horses or none. Some people only test there horses under ideal conditions for there horse. Some people don't know there horse exactly based on puddles blog or when I made the please read post.
Right now the learning process takes time an even with my 42 horses I can't say if there G1 or Claiming on most of them until they run a few tournament races. Just be patient an have a plan for each horse.

A bad horse is a bad horse, Puddles has stated numerous times if the horse trains poorly the courage and consistency will not improve him enough to be a good horse, however a great training horse could do poorly in tourneys...

Are those results based on one race? If so well... your horse could've been one or more of the following-

-Lacked courage. Did he/she back down when approached by another horse during the race?
-Lacked consistency. Your horse could've just had a bad race. The only way to figure out if this was the problem is to run more tournament races and compare the results.
-Had a bad trip. Was your horse bumped or blocked during the race? Did he/she get caught wide on the turn and never recovered? If so, don't give up on the horse-just try again and hope for a better trip. Or try giving different jockey instructions.
-Inflated speed rating. Are you running the horse in the mud or on off-tack?(soft turf and anything below fast dirt counts) Is so, you could be getting an SSR that does not accurately reflect your horse's true abilities.

From what I am hearing... I am beginning to believe that the hours upon hours that I have devoted to evaluating my horses through training races are just hours & hours of wasted time!!! Come on, guys...there has to be some reasonable correlation between training races & tournament races. If it is just going to be a crap shoot then we can enter any horse without evaluating it first. That is not how the game should work. If that is going to be the case then people will lose interest in a hurry. PERHAPS YOU HAVE TOO MANY HIDDEN CHARACTERISTICS THAT DO NOT SHOW UP IN TRAINING RACES. Perhaps you should rethink your method.
Jim