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Hello admin, wanted to post here an idea I was thinking on:
Sending the horse for a spell is just the label I've attached to having the ability to once per season exclude a horse from being able to be entered into races, and during this time have unlimited training turned back on for it ( was thinking a period of 10-14 days ). One of my frustrations is that after a horse is 'dialed' in initially, it's difficult to go back and try new combinations with each new timed work having to be 2-3 days apart. Especially given that we're led to believe a horses preferences can change distance, surface and tack wise when it undergoes an age change, it would be beneficial to be able to start over and try all of the various combinations like we do with fresh 2yo's, but that would take months with the 1 train a day limit. I can see this being an advantage in 3 ways:
1) Stables like myself who have just returned mid-season, have horses in the stable that conceivably want different distances/instructions/adds than when they were run last. To try and do a thorough job of sorting that though will take me until the end of the season, or what is more likely I'll just run them at what they liked previously, they'll lose, they'll get shot. Being able to send them all out and get them dialed in over a 2 week period would be much more enjoyable than that.
2) As previously stated it would be beneficial at the age change. Taking the time to re-set up the horses best combinations is going to save a lot of horses from the shotgun I feel both in their 2YO season ( being kept around to see how they age ) and once they age to 3YO people would potentially expend the effort to see what they have.
3) The claiming game. There have been times where I've seen a horse in a claimer that I think has potential because I believe something has been missed in the way the trainer worked it, but I haven't pulled the trigger because it would take too much training time to see if I was right training wise. Being able to place a claim, send the horse out to spell and get a chance to work the horse up 'YOUR' way I think could see an uptick in claims.
On the housekeeping side, you'd either need to allow it to be 1 spell per horse, per stable the horse spends time in, otherwise you'd need to have some physical marker on the horses profile to indicate if it's available to be sent for a spell this season. I'd leave it up to the admins' discretion as to whether sending them out does anything to the 'hidden' values a horse carries. Could be a chance to kill 2 birds with one stone if a horse is experiencing a slump.
I have no idea whether this is possible code wise, but I think it should be. Hopefully the community comments. No need to rush it, think on it some and see whether people would utilize it.
Sending the horse for a spell is just the label I've attached to having the ability to once per season exclude a horse from being able to be entered into races, and during this time have unlimited training turned back on for it ( was thinking a period of 10-14 days ). One of my frustrations is that after a horse is 'dialed' in initially, it's difficult to go back and try new combinations with each new timed work having to be 2-3 days apart. Especially given that we're led to believe a horses preferences can change distance, surface and tack wise when it undergoes an age change, it would be beneficial to be able to start over and try all of the various combinations like we do with fresh 2yo's, but that would take months with the 1 train a day limit. I can see this being an advantage in 3 ways:
1) Stables like myself who have just returned mid-season, have horses in the stable that conceivably want different distances/instructions/adds than when they were run last. To try and do a thorough job of sorting that though will take me until the end of the season, or what is more likely I'll just run them at what they liked previously, they'll lose, they'll get shot. Being able to send them all out and get them dialed in over a 2 week period would be much more enjoyable than that.
2) As previously stated it would be beneficial at the age change. Taking the time to re-set up the horses best combinations is going to save a lot of horses from the shotgun I feel both in their 2YO season ( being kept around to see how they age ) and once they age to 3YO people would potentially expend the effort to see what they have.
3) The claiming game. There have been times where I've seen a horse in a claimer that I think has potential because I believe something has been missed in the way the trainer worked it, but I haven't pulled the trigger because it would take too much training time to see if I was right training wise. Being able to place a claim, send the horse out to spell and get a chance to work the horse up 'YOUR' way I think could see an uptick in claims.
On the housekeeping side, you'd either need to allow it to be 1 spell per horse, per stable the horse spends time in, otherwise you'd need to have some physical marker on the horses profile to indicate if it's available to be sent for a spell this season. I'd leave it up to the admins' discretion as to whether sending them out does anything to the 'hidden' values a horse carries. Could be a chance to kill 2 birds with one stone if a horse is experiencing a slump.
I have no idea whether this is possible code wise, but I think it should be. Hopefully the community comments. No need to rush it, think on it some and see whether people would utilize it.
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