What's the most disappointing common experience in the SIM?

[Rochelle Bos]

I agree that a bad yearling crop is but after a few weeks you’re over it.

When you have a freak, you spend their whole yearling year dreaming of their glory (and sometimes pet of their 2yo year if they are mile/route) and it runs like you keep having some hope that they’ll run better next time…until your soul is devastated through and through

Looking at you Arthur, Starboy, and Tell Her About It…

[Nena Olson]

For me it is definitely a bad crop of yearlings because then I have nothing to look forward to. A good yearling sparks my interest in the game so when I get none or even just one (if they are a slow working freak) then I lose interest and forget to enter things LOL

[Nick Gilmore]

My first thought was ‘all of the above’. After some thought, for me it’s a toss up between a sad freak and a good race mare who won’t produce (even when she’s listed as blue hen). You have time and effort invested in both options and they throw blanks…kinda sucks.

[Fanta Arcadia]

I agree that a bad yearling crop is but after a few weeks you’re over it.

It's been a few weeks and I'm still not over Luxuria giving me a peak claimer, after all of her other foals were freaks

[Gwayne's World]

Other type: Buying a headshot for an underachiever

[The Steward]

Having a good horse reaching his peak and pointed him toward a very lucrative race only to find out the race requires pre-entry and I'm out of luck. Big ship to nowhere, then no where to run.

I said this to you in response to your email, but the Chimbo does NOT require a nomination! viewtopic.php?f=20&t=19463

[LA Pepper]

Having a good horse reaching his peak and pointed him toward a very lucrative race only to find out the race requires pre-entry and I'm out of luck. Big ship to nowhere, then no where to run.

I said this to you in response to your email, but the Chimbo does NOT require a nomination! viewtopic.php?f=20&t=19463

Sorry I had myself all worked up over that one only to find out I had nothing to be concerned about.

[Brandon Schultz]

For me, it's got to be coming to the forum with a great idea on how to take money out of the game only to have other players claim that the idea is taxes and thus shoot it down.

[Lily Wilkins]

I am a very impatient person, so it's definitely a combo of waiting all week for an exciting horse to run, only for it to stink, AND waiting for a Stakes/Freak to come of age, only for it to not run well.

[Tim Matthews]

For me, it's got to be coming to the forum with a great idea on how to take money out of the game only to have other players claim that the idea is taxes and thus shoot it down.

Many are saying this.

[Craig Mcgee]

Baaaaaaaaaaaaadddddd yearling crop...... wait all night for festivus dreaming of freaks and Steward Cups and getting claimers in return. lol

[Laura Smith]

I don't get too worked up about my yearlings as a whole, but I get really * at those high hypoing BHs that just refuse to produce a damn thing. Yeah, the yearlings have a lasting effect on your barn, but that unfounded hope you have for the sad BH, year after year, foal after foal? Do not like.

[Ali Sills]

I can see the foal crop crushing me! I’ve acquired some really nice mares, done a lot of research and bred them to expensive studs. I will be ruined if all I ge this claimers

[Gwayne's World]

I don't get too worked up about my yearlings as a whole, but I get really * at those high hypoing BHs that just refuse to produce a damn thing. Yeah, the yearlings have a lasting effect on your barn, but that unfounded hope you have for the sad BH, year after year, foal after foal? Do not like.

Imagine for a moment, you breed your finest producing blue hen to the premier stud in the game (DMB) and as a result wind up with a 'productive peak?' It was a full fledged outcross breeding and obviously not a very good one!!! That one still smarts!

[Cleo Patra]

I think mine is having played for SO long and I still don’t have a decent female line in my barn. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve had some real luck with breeding colts but good lord I’m useless at breeding a good mare who can then produce good mares.