Help?

[Rochelle Bos]

Between Y56 and Y59 my horses were winning on average 10 G1s a year. In the last two years I’ve won 2…total

It sucks being in the low, especially when life is being bleh and you just want something for happiness I have all my hopeful joy pegged on my LB boy Nyx, no one else in my racing barn has any hope

You know I’m always here to chat

[Brad Fabman]

I have never met my expectations in this game. I keep looking to improve every year. My stock seems to be better and the horses I feel can't do, I quit racing them. What do I have to show for it? The exact same stats every year. I have learned to just shrug my shoulders and move on. I would go crazy otherwise. I'm never going to be a top trainer. I have excepted that. The sun will come up tomorrow.

[Carolyn Eaton]

We all have some lousy years:
58 303 : 74-63-58 Win-24.4% OTB-64.4% 18 1 21 22 $2,543,180
57 285 : 77-50-50 Win-27.0% OTB-62.1% 24 3 15 16 $2,813,670

- year 57 only ended up that good because Laura F helped me out about 10 weeks that year while I was traveling; year 58 I only had 18 stakes wins out of 303 starts and over half of those were sponsored. A lot of the OTB's were allowance runners dropped to low level claimers

Then year 60 came along and I have several freaky freaks (and they're not always consistent) and things are better - until the next downturn I'll ride my trainer's high. I went years without a homebred freak and then had three in one crop. Keep your stars, cut everyone else so you're not wasting time on horses that only frustrate you and hold on for a couple of Sim Years until things turn around.

[Burgundy Hill Farms]

61 94 : 19-17-11 Win-20.2% OTB-50.0% 3 0 6 1 $679,970
60 176 : 25-31-36 Win-14.2% OTB-52.3% 9 2 8 4 $1,468,420
59 119 : 20-18-25 Win-16.8% OTB-52.9% 5 0 10 9 $828,610
58 100 : 19-11-17 Win-19.0% OTB-47.0% 5 0 7 3 $596,090
57 121 : 25-14-10 Win-20.7% OTB-40.5% 8 0 8 1 $691,310
56 86 : 16-16-10 Win-18.6% OTB-48.8% 2 1 8 6 $594,000

My last 5 1/2 years...so yeah, I understand the frustration...

[Burgundy Hill Farms]

...BUT...I still love looking forward to each results night and holding onto the hope that I'll find that barn-making super horse.
Like a great philosopher once said, "just keep swimming, just keep swimming..."

[Stormy Peak]

......... "just keep swimming, just keep swimming..."

I had the theme music to Jaws in my head right after reading that.

Stormy

[Erin Sanderson]

Appreciate the encouragement, guys, but I think it's time for a step back. I've put up a big chunk of my mares and racers for lease for the rest of the year. Not looking to get much out of the racers since there'll be only 6 weeks left for them to run, but hopefully they can go make some money for someone for not a lot of investment.

I'll still be around to run my pacers and paints, since those two strings in general make me fairly happy. There are a few of the more "special" TBs that I may lease out privately or may still run, I'm still undecided on those.