Festivus...how'd you do?

[Dylan Christensen]

Posting this in advance but how did everyone's crop gallop? Was it better or worse than expected? Share whatever you like about this year's yearling crop

[Brandon Schultz]

4 freaks 8 stakes and the rest allowance. Not too bad...


EDIT: This is some sort of sick, self-inflicted joke now... uggghhhh. What a terrible Festivus

[Rochelle Bos]

8 out of 294 yearlings galloped and I bred a Freak TS!

WEEEEEEE

[Cleo Patra]

Awful

[Nena Olson]

Titanic gave me a claimer. That pretty much sums up the whole crop!

ETA: My last year garbage crop didn't improve either.

[Oncu Kaan]

1 Arabian Freak (Legacy of Charly)
3 TB Stakes
Horse 1 sire; Kingdom Come
Horse 2 sire; Prodigal Sorcerer
Horse 3 sire; The Best Of It

gallop change
Forever Summer Stakes > Freak
Miguelito Allowance > Stakes
Gracie's Dream Allowance > Stakes
Tobu's Shadow Stakes > Freak

[Brian Leavitt]

I was due for a meh crop.

I think the brightest spot as far as yearlings go might actually be Pismo Beach, who could potentially be a multi-surface miler and actually ended up galloping stakes late bloomer

My only other TB stakes yearling is turf router Krakatoa who is a niece to Antares. Also late bloomer

Now, the older horses on the other hand, heheheheh...

Utahraptor, Kiss From a Rose, and Santa Fe Springs (yes, an Appy) all improved to freak!

Also had a couple more non-yearlings improve to stakes on top of that

[Cleo Patra]

Okay maybe not so awful now I’ve done the older horses. I’ll post them later when I’m not on a phone but I had a large number go allowance to stakes or stakes to freak

[Danny Derby]

[Dylan Christensen]

3 stakes for me 2 DR and 1 AWS which is pretty exciting! Also had 21 other allowances which is pretty solid and unsurprisingly I only had 3 claimers from my chasers, rest were DC.

[Sara Julin]

For my small breeding operation, I couldn't be happier ^^
20 Yearlings
- 2 Stakes/ 10%
- 6 Allowances/ 30%
- 4 Productive/ 20%
- 1 Solid/ 5%
- 7 Claimers/ 35%

And the Stakes are;
https://www.simhorseracing.com/horse.ph ... ID=1195264 (Home bred)
https://www.simhorseracing.com/horse.ph ... ID=1203556 (Steward bred)

I couldn't be happier with the years crop ^^
(and I also got 6 new stakes in my older horses through gallops, no downgrades!)

[Art K Stables]

2 stakes went to freak.. couple of allowance went to stakes. thats about it..of the yearlings no freaks.. 10/74 stakes.. WGM was a bust, nothing better than allowance..

[Erin Sanderson]

I went through my yearling gallops alphabetically by dam's name for each breed. My mixers are God awful. Not a freak among them, and only a couple stakes. Then the first half of the TBs started out so bad I was ready to chuck the whole lot of them on the sales page. Second half of TB gallops miraculously turned it around. And I saved Cursebreaker's foal for last.

Chainbreaker is a freak (Pinatubo x Cursebreaker). And I got two more freaks: the Dave Matthews Band x Lady So Divine colt and the After the Disco x Maps From Memory filly. This is the first year I've had three freaks in a TB crop. Ever, in 38 SIM years. Only 35 of 76 are allowance or better, though. Hoping some of the late bloomers come through, because I seem to be very good at breeding those.

I had quite a few older horses improve. Leave a Whisper, Lady So Divine's four-year-old, went from stakes to freak. I had a few others go from allowance to stakes, including Longtime Lonesome, a half sister to Antares and Minior, and Sura, a half sister to Marrakech, Aleppo, and Soundscape. I even manage to breed turf sprinters that don't want to be runners until they're four, like Time for Winning, who went from allowance to stakes.

[Lee Tuttle]

Yearlings were the worst that I've ever had.
1 Freak, a dozen or so stakes.
And a plethora of claiming crap. But of course the majority of them are late developers. So we have a reason to hold onto them.
I give this Festivus a full meh.

One of my few older horses that doesnt suck went Freak. So maybe another 8+ weeks of him being able to bring in some cash.

[Glenn Escobar]

Overall crop was good..........fun fact for the Crop is that Saturanlia produced a Stakes TB Filly in each one of FIVE different divisions (TS/TM/TR/AWM/AWR).

Fun fact #2 is that I did manage at least one Stakes+ Yearling in 8 of 9 TB Divisions as well. Sorry AWS, maybe next year. First time for me at least that that's happened.