Why You Want to Read the Simperior Edge Newsletter

Original article written by Regina Moore posted 10 years 3 weeks ago

If you are serious about breeding horses in SIM, you need to be reading the Edge weekly newsletter. To have access to the Edge, you need to be a SIMperior subscriber. To purchase a SIMperior subscription, you need to buy game points.

It just so happens that Game Point and a Half Day is coming up on Tuesday, Sept 10th. That’s where you get 1500 game points for every US dollar spent, rather than the normal 1000 game points. Or, put another way, a year’s subscription to SIMperior, which costs 45,000 game points, will only actually only cost the equivalent of 30 U.S. dollars, rather than 45 U.S. dollars, if those game points are purchased on Game Point and a Half Day.

What’s so special about the SIMperior newsletter?

Where I have found it to be most valuable in recent game years is in how often The Steward points out stallions that can be useful at other distance or surface categories than is obvious from the stallion’s own race record. This can be especially helpful with the mixed breeds, where pedigrees aren’t always filled in for three generations.

For example, if you have a dirt miler mare, you’re likely going to be looking to breed her to a dirt miler stallion. What you’ll therefore miss are the dirt route stallions that are capable of siring successful milers.

If you have a Paint 400yd mare, is seems perfectly logical to breed her to a stallion that was successful at 400yds, and whose own parents were successful at 400yds. But that stud (and presumably his parents) might have been just as successful at 870yds, had anyone ever tried him at that distance, so you might want to breed some 870yd mares to him, too. That’s the sort of thing that the Edge points out.

Each issue of the Edge features an article about a Thoroughbred stallion. The stallion must have a headshot, and the owner be a SIMperior subscriber, to be in the Edge. Beyond that, I think the selection of stallions is very fair, in terms of covering the obvious popular retirees, as well as bargain stallions with less than stellar earnings that a lot of players might otherwise overlook.

Each issue also includes a paragraph about a mixer stallion. Again, these stallions can cover quite a range of player appetites.

I keep a list of stallions featured in the Edge, along with any notations about any bloodlines the Steward thinks they might cross particularly well with, as well as other distance or surface categories the stallion is capable of being successful at, beyond the obvious. This list is my starting point during breeding season, when I’m trying to choose stallions for each of my mares.

Each weekly issue of the Edge also includes an interview with a player, a blurb about a youngster in the next Steward auction, and highlights a particularly impressive debuting two year old.

It’s important to note that each issue of the Edge is only available for a week. So, once you're a subscriber, you need to save it while it’s available; otherwise, it’s forever lost.

If you want to be heads-up about the finer nuances of breeding horses in SIM, get a SIMperior subscription, so you can have access to the Edge.

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