If a horse is on the auto-train option and is scheduled for a workout on a day it races, does the auto-trainer know not to train the horse on that day? Or as an owner do I have to manually go in and suspend the training schedule before a horse breaks his/her leg?
It automatically checks if the horse has already been worked out (by you) or is entered in a race (on any day). If either of those things are true, it will not work the horse.
Good to know. =) One thing to be careful, however, is if you are on a mix of auto/non-auto training…the fields are still pre-set to work the horse i.e. if you don’t catch it and you go in to hand train and don’t change the raced horse’s workouts to none, you run the risk of training that horse by accident… I think.
No…like I just said - if the script sees that the horse already has a workout done, even if there’s a scheduled workout to be auto-run, it won’t run the auto-workout because the horse has already done whatever you manually made him do in his workouts.
Basically - as long as the horse is 1) at the track 2) not entered in a race, the auto-workout script will work out the horse…unless you’ve already done something with him that day.
Once the auto-workout script runs, the training workout page should show the workout that happened via auto-run, so you wouldn’t be able to manually select another workout for him to do. (If not, that’s a bug.)
Hey just FYI,(I will check the dates tomorrow) I worked out a bunch of my horses on their scheduled day and got double worked. Actually I believe it was the 15th? Luckly no one was injured but I stay away from the manual training if I’m using auto training…
I’ve had this happen to me more than once as well, so I stay away from it too.
I don’t think I’m making myself clear–I’ll work on getting a screen shot when it happens again. But let me ask another question (if you’ll indulge me), if I race my horse on Saturday could I hand train my horse on the same day? (i.e. go to Training–>Training Workouts) In that case, it appears as if I could. I haven’t tried it, because broken legs suck and I really don’t want to risk it. Is there anything built into the training code that will catch my mistake? If so, there’s nothing indicating it on the front-end.
Am I making sense?
I don’t think there’s anything preventing you from racing and working out on the same day, other than risk of injury. There’s no reason why it wouldn’t be allowed if someone wanted to do it, I suppose.
Okay, then allow me to move on to my second question. If I had horse A on an auto-train schedule and I’m hand training horse B. When I go to the training workouts page, horse A will have his auto-train workout already selected in the drop-down menu (e.g. walk 1 mile on the turf). Thus, if I don’t change Horse A’s workout, when I choose Horse B’s workout and press the button to run the work out, Horse A’s workout will also run. Normally this would be fine because it would just mean that Horse A’s workout ran sooner. The problem occurs when Horse A ran in a race and I go to hand train Horse B. If I don’t catch Horse A’s presets (even though the auto-script would), Horse A will run when I run Horse B’s workout. Does that make sense?
My request (and I should probably bug report this…I’m sorry) is one of two things: 1) Make it impossible under any circumstances for any horse to be trained on a day he races or 2) Don’t have the scheduled/auto training preselected on the Training Workout Page. That way, if I’m stupid/blind enough not to catch Horse A’s auto workout before I run Horse B’s workout, Horse A won’t run as well. Does this make sense?
Or does this fall into the category that FF is going to give you enough rope to hang yourself?
Like I said, I’m more than happy to do a screen shot of this when it happens, if that’ll clear things up.
Ahh, I see. Yeah, that makes sense. It can go into the rewrite, if you (or someone) writes up a feature request for it so I remember. 
Following on from what Cat’s asked, if you have a horse on auto train but you notice that they’re energy is a little lower than you’d like is there anyway to stop that workout from happening other than deleting their entire workout schedule? I realise if they’re scheduled to gallop three miles you could change it to a lighter workout e.g. walk one mile but I’m wondering if, at the moment, there’s anyway to miss a workout completely other than deleting their schedule then having to restart it maybe a day or two later if their energy comes back up.
That, or ship them back home.
In the rewrite of training, I’m hoping to figure out a sane way to add in conditions on training…i.e. if energy is A/B, train, otherwise skip…if fitness is D/F, train, otherwise skip.
Hey, Cat, I see that your question looks to have possibly be answered, and in that case would like to add that in your senario the horse on auto-training that got worked early would get worked twice in one day,as well. That’s all I was touching on because I know one of your horses broke her leg due to a similar error. And this is just a simple FYI post, not trying to answer a question.
Also, on modifying autotraining I was thinking it would be AWESOME if we could modify stable workouts so that when they are changed all the horses assigned to that schedules workouts would change. i.e. Stable workout “Get-in-Shape” is assigned to horses A, B, and C. “Get In Shape” is modified from its original form so in turn horses A, B, and C’s workouts are updated to reflect this. Just a thought.