Which makes me think of another definitely fun feature to add (but maybe not such fun to code ): what if horses at farm could have different kinds of workout than at racetrack? Or maybe “activities”? Like outdoor riding or longeing or groundwork… perhaps there could be some fee to pay for groundwork, which would increase horse’s happiness / Natural Energy / obedience… but there would have to be a horse whisperer hired to do that so we’d have to pay him / her (and there could be a number of them, like jockeys, with different fees etc).
And outdoor riding could change other stats - like horse could become less responsive (amateur / random riders), could get tired without getting fit, etc., but also could become less spooky for example.
The schedule for that could be less detailed than for workouts at track; for example we could just set “3 hours of outdoor riding on Mondays” or “30 minutes of longeing on Wednesdays” or “groundwork session each Friday”.
Actually, I used to ride at a riding school which was next to barns for racehorses, and they were separate businesses but at the same racetrack, so often same people worked here and there - and sometimes horses from racing barns were sent to riding school to be “calmed down”… which was dangerous sometimes because clients of the riding school were not always aware that they are riding actual racehorses… and the trainers / instructors probably thought that just the routine of riding lessons and the company of older and calmer horses will calm down the racehorses - which sometimes worked, and sometimes not
I feel this would be quite a monster to code and integrate into the game (and a bit too Horseland with all these additional attributes to code for). Difficult enough to figure out a training/rest system that seems to work for everyone without adding at-home workouts, too . I figured a horse at home is inactive and recharging, sort of in “hiatus” and one less thing for us to tackle until they return to the track. Same for boarding, as they also don’t record workouts during this time, and just recharge much slower.
I don’t know if this qualifies as “fun” but I’d love to be able to change the order of Stable Notes… like now I’m writing a separate note about each horse that seems more promising than others, but it would be easier if I could keep these below other notes… or arrange them by importance.
I sort of “fixed” the above problem for myself by installing a Firefox add-on called “sticky notes” (there is a number of them), which can be added on stable home page and on individual horse pages… that’s useful although I’m not sure which one of these works best yet.
As many of us have lots (lots!) of horses, it becomes quite hard to keep track of them and their training, would it be possible to have an automated e-mail sent after the stable has worked each day with a print out of each horses work outs?
Sometimes if you don’t log on for a day or so you can miss that there has been injuries etc and with the daily notifications you could quickly sent a horse back to the farm or adjust a horses equipment, running position for it’s next work out if the jock advises.
You can already see a day’s workouts using the “Stable Workouts” page, if you ask it to display only one date and choose “All Horses.” How would an email be different?
9 years of playing and I had no idea this was a thing.
Andy - You can always just back track and check those days. And if a horse is injured their training schedule is removed so they don’t risk working while injured. That’s usually how I find out if I didn’t catch it on the main page (or their name simply being red on the actual workouts page).
If an email option is added, I would prefer it to be that: an option. Nearly-daily emails for 50+ horses worked would drive me batty. I just check periodically, see how their comments have been, update race setting if anything new has come up (ex: running on the lead), when was there last race, and enter or keep working from there. Or send home if the jockey keeps having his pants ripped off.
(Like everything else, though, I’ll add…not sure when. I don’t think this would take too long, so I’ll try and get it in soon. I know I’ve said that before, though…)
I find it more reliable to go to my Training Summary page and sort by Injury. That shows all your horses in order of the most recent injury, with anything that happened within the past 30 days in red. I find that to be a quick and easy way to check for any missed Injuries.
As far as the emails are concerned, like Shelbie, I don’t want to get daily emails for all my horses workouts for the day. What might be more useful is if we could get emails (or PM’s if that was any easier to code) for any Stable Alerts and/or Retirements/Deaths. I looked at my Stable Info page about 3 or 4 times this morning before noticing that one of my retired Broodmares had died. And, as for the number of times I have checked my Training Summary page and seen that one horse or another had had an injury within the past few days and I had either missed seeing the Stable Alert for it or I had seen it on my phone while I was out on the road but, by the time I was at a place where I could do anything, I had forgotten about it, and, the next time I looked, the Alert was no longer there.
Another suggestion, depending on how easy it would be to code - Move the Retirements/Deaths section either into (or right below) the Stable Alerts section.
I agree I can do that but when there is over 300+ in the stable and if you don’t check every day … you get my drift. I’d love to be able to filter by ages etc, so I could just see my say 2yr olds or 3yr olds or even SC etc.
It would be like a print out from the stable foreman reporting in.
I’d really like a way of separating out SC horses from flat runners on the training summary page. Most of my best runners ar SC horses and it’s a pain picking them out from the rest of the runners when i am deciding where to send them nex
I would love if the list of stallions said what country/state they were in. Right now I’m having to keep my own FYI list of locations so I’m not shipping my mares all over the place.
Thinking of the racing schedule - apart from adding a “steeplechase day” - I thought it would be a cool idea to have a “Final Furlong Triple Crown”, a set of races that are only in the game and perhaps named after famous FF horses - “What’s It Worth Stakes”, “Highland Rogue Stakes”…
Could we possibly have an “Expected foals” page/popup? I find myself often forgetting who exactly is due from any leased mares and sometimes the lease ends before the foal is due. I know I can figure it out via budget history, but a single page to view for sire/dam/dam owner/due date would be nifty.
Tacking onto Shelbie’s post from last year, I’d love to be able to sort my broodmares by due date. With roughly 100 ladies due all over the place, it would be amazing to organize them that way - with current year due dates first, then next year’s.
): what if horses at farm could have different kinds of workout than at racetrack? Or maybe “activities”? Like outdoor riding or longeing or groundwork… perhaps there could be some fee to pay for groundwork, which would increase horse’s happiness / Natural Energy / obedience… but there would have to be a horse whisperer hired to do that 
. I figured a horse at home is inactive and recharging, sort of in “hiatus” and one less thing for us to tackle until they return to the track. Same for boarding, as they also don’t record workouts during this time, and just recharge much slower.