Interesting Find about my Racers

[Tammy Fox]

Maybe it happens like this all the time but I always thought improvers happened after their second race, at the beginning of the new sim year, after Week 8 Day 7 Barrier Trials, I did not realize some happened after Week 16 Day 6 Races were over. I have had 2 or 3 that I checked week 8 Day 7 after barrier trials with no change then I checked them again around Week 15 Day 3 just trying to keep them fit with no change then I checked the same racers today and now they are Peak, so I guess I missed that there was and additional improvement check that happens at year end. So I decided to go ahead and check others that I did check Week 8 Day 7 after barrier trials and sure enough they have also become peak now even though they were not peak at mid-season festivus.
Now none of my yearlings and 2yo arabians have changed from Progressive or LB to peak as of today so maybe it is something that only affects racers.
I did discover a couple of new stakes-peak that I expected and one Stake-LB that became a Freak-Peak Turf route 2yo filly(I had a feeling she might go freak based on her doing winning 2 of 3 starts and coming in 3rd in her third start but I feel like the third start was a third place finish because I raced her every 2 weeks and she was tired from that and I should have given her a 3 week break instead of racing her, granted her wins were in a maiden and an NW2 and her 3rd was a stakes race plus who knows she could have been racing against some Freak fillies in that race and she was still waiting to improve).
Anyway, I thought it was interesting to discover that and like I said maybe it is something that has always happened and I didn't know about it until today.

[Lily Wilkins]

Interesting that you bring this up. I have noticed that a handful of people gallop/talent check their horses Week 16 Day 6, but i've always just shrugged it off. I just went through and checked a few of my current racers, and indeed, I have a horse that was Freak Progressive at the mid-season gallop change, who is now Peak. We have only had Day 6 racing during Week 16 for a few seasons now, and I'm wondering if perhaps this is a bug associated with that change.

[Andrew Chillin]

It’s not really a bug. Before the day 6 races were added the admin said that the gallop changes happen after the last races of the season. That would’ve been South Pacific before giving you 1 hour before the season changed to break. Not you have 11 hours before that change over. This feature has been here for long time.

[Lily Wilkins]

Ah, good to know! All these years, I could have been checking my runners before break started

[Nicole Marie]

Ooh I didn't know this! I just checked Pleakley and he's now freak peak (has been stakes LB since his first gallop as a yearling).

[Meghan Kingsley]

Rats. I was super-busy yesterday, didn't get on, and now it's break and I can't work anyone.... *sigh*

[Kelly Haggerty]

This saved me so much time! Now I just have babies to do when the year turns.