DU - Forum should pick up with a great title race, the breeders, SOPL and Loveday cups to come and lots still to play for champion novice, top 5 top 10 etc. I hope so anyway!
JV - whilst not ideal what I have been doing is entering a jumps horse in a flat race the furthest possible date in the future, handicap/claimer/seller whatever for £50 then using the skip next button takes U to the day before race - then withdraw the horse(remove from race) and repeat 4/5 times - your at the end of October, like I say not ideal but much quicker than skipping day after day.
Am now starting to enjoy my game 5/6 seasons in have started breeding my own - my line starts with a great gamebred sprinter I picked up at auction - managed to win the Nunthorpe by 4 1/2 lengths and the kings stand at 5yo under G1 penalty - bred it with CPU miler and resulting Colt flew from miles behind to win Golden Slipper by a length! Also had my first jumps G1 winner in the Powers Gold cup, a real 2m4 specialist, annoying though that seems to be the only race for her(No Ryanair chase??). Game seems to be getting a real kicking on this and the other forums but have to say despite some obvious glitches that are sure to be ironed out with patches I am starting to get into it. The graphics are much better once your used to them(could do with horses having eyes though!) and the training is a huge step up on So2 - id be worried about the league if using automatic training! - you can manipulate a lot more about horses stats through training(especially jumpers - said jumps winner almost never makes a mistake now thanks to intensive jumping training) than previously. Overrall I would say give the game time and it will become clear that it is clearly superior to SO2.
