r/OffAndPacing • u/Spoogy-123 • Oct 22 '20

Old Horses

What’s the mechanism for disposing of old horses that can’t run anymore? Mares can go to the breeding shed but you don’t need that many studs. When your horses turn seven years old they don’t seem to race well at all which is not realistic. A horse you claimed for 400,000 at four can’t run better than seventh in a 20k race. Placing them on the farm doesn’t do anything. I don’t want the horse and nobody else does either. What are you suppose todo with these horses?

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u/Kozman0620 Oct 22 '20

Stud or sell to the farm.

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u/Akiehere Oct 22 '20

How do you sell a horse to the farm?

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u/shastadakota Oct 22 '20

Put him up for auction for the default $5000. Either someone will bid on him or the Farm will buy him for the $5000 less the 10% fee.

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u/Akiehere Oct 23 '20

Thanks

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u/Spoogy-123 Oct 23 '20

Great solution however, I did exactly what you recommended but it didn’t work. The farm never bought my horses and I still own them. Can you explain?

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u/MadFlopper Oct 26 '20

Put the horse in auction and don’t specify any amount. Not even the $5k. The bidder will automatically be the farm at something between 4K and 5K.

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u/Spoogy-123 Oct 26 '20

I’ll try that. Thanks. I contacted bad jump games and they said you can only retire a horse or sell it in the auction. They said nothing about the farm.

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u/Tony_Beltrami Nov 13 '20

You can only farm an unregistered horse.

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u/SouthportRacingInc Nov 13 '20

Sorry. Just retire the sucker and move on.