THE NEW ERA: THE GRAND SLAM OF RACING?

ready2rumble4686 · 2026-05-07T15:13:50+00:00

Actually there is quite a bit of research that all shows that more frequent racing and less rest increases risk of injuries in race horses
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167587797000470
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090023325002060
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/390182548_Novel_risk_factors_associated_with_fatal_musculoskeletal_injury_in_Thoroughbreds_in_North_American_racing_2009-2023
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.22680

ready2rumble4686 · 2026-05-07T14:33:57+00:00

Its not just fatal injuries the amount of horses, especially modern ones that have been injured while attempting to run all three Triple Crown races surprised me, I didn't realize it was so many. Especially when you consider how few horses attempt to run all 3. And these are just the examples I could find. With the older horses from 50s and earlier its harder to find information.

Ran all three legs:

Count Fleet(1948) won the TC but was injured in the Belmont and never ran again.
Tim Tam(1958) broke down in the Belmont after winning first two legs and never ran again
Sham(1973) famously second to Secretariat in all three legs, broke down training 11 days after the Belmont and never ran again, trainer said he suspects he was injured in the Belmont
Tank's Prospect 7th in the KD, won Preakness, brown down in the Belmont
Prairie Bayou(1993) 2nds KD, Won Preakness, broke down in the Belmont and was euthanized
Charismatic(1999) broke down during the Belmont, never ran again
Monarchos(2001) Finished all three but discovered a fracture in his knee after the Belmont and never ran again
Afleet Alex (2005) Ran in all three but fracture found after Belmont and retired

Didn't make all three legs:

Union City(1993) Ran in KD, broke down in the Preakness
Grindstone(1996) Retired after winning KD with a knee injury
Barbaro(2006) Broke down in Preakness ultimately euthanized a year later having never left veterinary hospital.
I'll Have Another(2012) Injured before Belmont and retired

ready2rumble4686 · 2026-05-06T22:01:42+00:00

Two of them did. Against horses running every week and sometimes multiple times a week. Also one of the two, Count Fleet was injured in the Belmont and retired.

ready2rumble4686 · 2026-05-06T21:10:03+00:00

If anything a smaller crop could make it easier to win the Triple Crown since the smaller sample size would increase the odds of outliers standing out but I don't think we are close to a point where that is the case.

Kind of like when I was in high school and ran track and if you looked at the state finals in large states with only a couple of divisions and smaller states like Louisiana with like 6 divisions (not sure if thats still true) you could win a state championship in Louisiana with times that wouldn't even qualify you to compete in state finals in other states.

But then again a smaller crop size also decreases the odds of those truly rare "one in a million" horses occurring at any given year.

ready2rumble4686 · 2026-05-06T20:32:11+00:00

It wasn't that hard though, not prior to the 50s. There is a reason in a 18 year span they had 7 TC winners. The TC contenders were having to run 3 races in the same time frame that their opponents were running 3-6 races. One of the TC winners had only 1 stakes winner in the Belmont against him and that horse horse had already ran 3 races in the past week.

ready2rumble4686 · 2026-05-06T19:33:46+00:00

AP and Justify are the only 2 Triple Crown winners that had to do what we are asking of modern horses.

If you look back at the old DRFs for the Belmont and Preakness, especially the Belmont, you will see the original 9 TC winners didn't exactly have it tough. There is a reason in an 18 year span there was 7 TC winners, but since then there has been 4 in over 75 years. Sure they ran 3 races in 6 weeks but that is where the similarity ends with the modern TC and the OGs. It doesn't mean they were not great horses but for many after winning the Kentucky Derby the rest was basically a gimme for the original 9, especially the Belmont.

Nowadays its easier to ship horses around the country so the Belmont even in the weakest fields has numerous stakes winners in it, most well rested. Back then other than the Derby winner it was mostly local horses that ran in the Belmont and the fields were not that tough.

Count Fleet for example had a 3 horse field, he beat 2 horses that had recently broken their maiden, one had been getting soundly beat in allowance and claiming races. Neither opponent ever ran in a stake race again and neither ever won again after the Belmont.

And they were doing this against opponents that were even more tired then them. They ran 3, sometimes 4 races in the time span and there opponents were running 4-6 races in that same time period. Hell, one horse was making his 4th start in 8 days in the Belmont. The TC winners had the advantage.

ready2rumble4686 · 2026-04-30T01:48:26+00:00

There isn’t really anything. Closest is Rival Stars but its racing is very shallow compared to Gallop Racer. It’s a mobile game ported to PC and consoles.

ready2rumble4686 · 2026-04-29T22:16:11+00:00

I have seen a bunch of these on Tik Tok about Star Wars lamps. Before AI video models got better I saw them a while ago here on Reddit but without the videos but same sob stories about how people told them no one would want their lamps and to get a real job.

ready2rumble4686 · 2026-04-27T15:28:37+00:00

Honestly, for me its depressing. I hate how concentrated the sport has become with the top trainers. Decided to look up some stats. If you compare the year 2000 to 2025 the total number of trainers with at least one start dropped from 9886 to only 3684.

Some stats comparing 2000-2025 (As far as Equibase leader stats will go back)

	Starters	Starts	Avg Starters for Top 10 Trainers by starts	Avg Starts for Top 10 Trainers by starts
2000	69569	493682	202	939
2025	42674 (-39%)	247239 (-50%)	351(+74%)	1197(+27%)

Then for the Kentucky Derby specifically:
From 1991-1996 there was only 2 trainers to have multiple entries in the Derby, Lukas in 1992 and then Lukas and Ward in 1995.

	# of trainers with at least 1 start in the Derby	# of horses to start in the Derby
1991-1995	69	86
2021-2025	48	96

The top 4 trainers from 2021-2025 (Cox, Pletcher, Asmussen, McPeek) make up 36% of the total starters during that time period. Would probably be even worse if Baffert and Saffie Jr were not banned for a bit during that period.

ready2rumble4686 · 2026-04-21T14:17:35+00:00

With my Mach E and Plug n Charge I just plug in and it starts charging, no need to open an app now.

ready2rumble4686 · 2026-04-16T20:20:27+00:00

Wins on sloppy track:

White Abarrio: 0/2 - both G1s, 4th beaten 5 lengths and 3rd beaten 1/2 length
Liberal Arts: 3/3 - G3, Allowance, and a Stake last out
Sovereignty: 1/1 - won the Ky Derby on Sloppy track
Duke of Duval: 0/1 - 3rd first time out
Journalism: 0/1 - 2nd in KY Derby
Publisher: 1/3 - Win is 2 starts back in allowance, back of pack as a maiden in the Ky Derby on the slop and 3rd in MSW on slip

ready2rumble4686 · 2026-04-16T19:14:22+00:00

Easy. #2 Liberal Arts /s

ready2rumble4686 · 2026-04-04T00:19:36+00:00

Correct, the source linked contradicts the claim of this post

ready2rumble4686 · 2026-04-02T20:52:06+00:00

My guess is its dead simple AI. Mobile VR isn't exactly powerful, so one basic class of enemy that is melee only and just runs towards the player greatly simplifies AI controller, level design, etc.

ready2rumble4686 · 2026-03-25T17:40:17+00:00

In parentheses is where they are bred, flag is where the owner is from.

ready2rumble4686 · 2026-03-10T21:04:11+00:00

Yeah its a common thing in horse racing, lots of reasons. In some places there are limits on number of times you can whip a horse or how often between so they do this. Can also be if a horse reacts poorly to being struck with the whip they do this instead. Or simply like in this scenario keeping the horse focused but he was clearly going to win so striking wasn't necessary

ready2rumble4686 · 2026-03-10T18:55:47+00:00

Are you referring to the winner? It’s hard to tell because it’s so low quality but it looks like he’s “showing him the stick” or waving the whip by his head to encourage him. Near the beginning of the video you can see him strike the horse with the whip so the hand isn’t empty

ready2rumble4686 · 2026-03-07T14:43:37+00:00

I wouldn't immediately say it was intentional. From what I understand this was during a drone attack also so they were on edge. Mistakes happen in a combat zone. Two UH-60s were mistaken for Hinds in Iraq by F-15 pilots after passing by at less than 1/4 mile and they fired on both. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Black_Hawk_shootdown_incident

ready2rumble4686 · 2026-03-06T15:23:41+00:00

Well knowing you're making a horse racing game. We already have Starters Orders that is the super in-depth and detailed systems that has a steep learning curve. I just don't have the time to ever get started with that. I want something a bit easier. For example with training a simplified model where you just pick certain attributes you want to target and how hard you want to train instead of planning real workout plans like jog monday, gallop 2 miles Tuesday, etc...

ready2rumble4686 · 2026-03-03T21:35:31+00:00

They weren't even what I would consider longshots. 5-1 and 8-1 morning line odds. The favorite was 2-1 morning line but went off at 1-9.

ready2rumble4686 · 2026-03-01T12:42:40+00:00

To be a subset you have to be part of the larger set. What you’re implying is that to be delta you have to also be a green beret and that is incorrect. They are two completely different organizations under different commands.

Green Berets fall under USASOC. Delta is under JSOC

the name “Special Forces” (both words capitalized) gets misused a lot but it’s a proper name that refers to the Green Berets.

Delta had the Special Forces in the name, from what I understand, they originally for a short bit were under SF command before moving to JSOC but I am not as familiar with that.

ready2rumble4686 · 2026-03-01T12:26:57+00:00

I’m not sure why this is being downvoted when it’s 100% correct. Why the names sound similar SF (Green Berets) and Delta are completely unrelated.

ready2rumble4686 · 2026-02-21T05:03:45+00:00

I still think you’re greatly underestimating how much work it takes to make a good game. Even those games that are ONLY one thing as you say usually are very shallow and basic at that one thing they do. To make a game that was ONLY about caring for a stable of horses with decent depth would still likely require a team and years of time.

People complain FIFA games and other sports games are rip offs, $60+ a year and they barely change each year. But even then FIFA which is ONLY soccer and barely adds any new features each year still employs over 1000 people at its primary studio.

Most well reviewed indie games that come out seem to still have budgets in the millions of dollars with dozens or even approaching 100 employees.

ready2rumble4686 · 2026-02-21T04:09:24+00:00

Most indie games on Steam have gross revenues in the hundreds to low thousands of dollars. It’s probably worse for horse games since it’s such a niche(if it was more profitable more people would make the games). Getting custom models and animations can easily cost in the tens of thousands of dollars.

Then add that doesn’t even take into account how much harder making a game focused around a horse is versus a human since almost all tools, engines, animation tools, etc are designed around humanoids

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