The Final Episode

Of the Yellow Dog Racing Bargain Bred Saga

A brief recap, I decided to select what I considered were our best brood mares (mainly of less than average quality) that were available from way back when I started playing (2005 – 2010). Note: a lot of these mares were still hanging around in their stalls when I recommenced in 2017, and were instantly retired, when our stables were emptied to make way for a new beginning. Once the brood mares were selected 9 sires were selected from the range of 10 to 40 BP’s and one “expensive” sire in the 200 – 220 BP zone.

The story that transpired can be found in 3 articles written back in 2018

Can you solve the breeding puzzle dated March 21st 2018

The Breeding Puzzle – Solved? NOT Likely dated March 26th 2018 and

Breeding Puzzle – Continued dated April 24th 2018

Just recently I began clearing out a bunch hay thieves from my stables, you know those horses that accumulate having run 30 40 or 50 races and no longer earn their keep. The ones that you no longer set a train for date and every time you see them say I must get around to sending them to the farm and retiring them. (Note: As I keep a spread sheet on all my stables retiring a horse for me is more than a couple of in game clicks – it also means having to transfer the horse and all its stats from a current to retired status so that my stable cumulative stats remain correct)

So I get to my stable YDRacing23 the original stable of the “Terrific Ten” and I was reminded of the series of articles I wrote back in 2018 describing the experiment. The aim of which was really just to see if spending a very small amount of BP’s and Credits could be profitable. So how did the experiment turn out you ask? Well if you didn’t I certainly did so after looking briefly at the results I thought it may be worth sharing.

How much did we spend Initially?

The 9 Bargain Sires bred to 1st time Mares cost 330 BP’s and 12 Credits

Our Expensive Sire was Duke of Marmalade costing 212 BP’s and was Bred to a Mare who had been used before so a total cost of 424 BP’s.

This meant an initial outlay of 754 BP’s and 12 Credits

How did we fare?

Lets look at each horse individually from worst to best using BP’s earned as the criteria.

	Horse	Top SP	Starts	1st	2nd	3rd	Prize Money	Cost	Earned	BP Pr/Loss
10th	Tryst In A Forest	74.340	29	1	1	1	$24,986	52 BP’s	114 BP’s	Pr 62 BP’s

	Horse	Top SP	Starts	1st	2nd	3rd	Prize Money	Cost	Earned	BP Pr/Loss
9th	Screaching Cyclone	74.464	28	1	4	1	$18,763	52 BP’s	124 BP’s	Pr 72 BP’s

	Horse	Top SP	Starts	1st	2nd	3rd	Prize Money	Cost	Earned	BP Pr/Loss
8th	Lord Of The Canyon	87.205	34	1	2	2	$33,391	20 BP’s	149 BP’s	Pr 129 BP’s

	Horse	Top SP	Starts	1st	2nd	3rd	Prize Money	Cost	Earned	BP Pr/Loss
7th	Straight Drive	90.644	38	1	2	4	$42,278	20 BP’s	164 BP’s	Pr 144 BP’s

	Horse	Top SP	Starts	1st	2nd	3rd	Prize Money	Cost	Earned	BP Pr/Loss
6th	Breakfast Dancer	94.233	39	2	1	3	$41,875	424 BP’s	176 BP’s	L 248 BP’s

	Horse	Top SP	Starts	1st	2nd	3rd	Prize Money	Cost	Earned	BP Pr/Loss
5th	Turtle In A Spin	85.212	50	1	2	5	$35,767	30 BP’s	214 BP’s	Pr 184 BP’s

	Horse	Top SP	Starts	1st	2nd	3rd	Prize Money	Cost	Earned	BP Pr/Loss
4th	Sneaky Princess	96.010	55	4	4	5	$118,992	36 BP’s	420 BP’s	Pr 384 BP’s

	Horse	Top SP	Starts	1st	2nd	3rd	Prize Money	Cost	Earned	BP Pr/Loss
3rd	Hid In Clear Sight	99.863	50	5	5	11	$169,129	46 BP’s	568 BP’s	Pr 522 BP’s

	Horse	Top SP	Starts	1st	2nd	3rd	Prize Money	Cost	Earned	BP Pr/Loss
2nd	Collect The Vig	95.497	49	6	13	4	$185,685	12 BP’s 12 Cr’s	627 BP’s	Pr 615 BP’s

	Horse	Top SP	Starts	1st	2nd	3rd	Prize Money	Cost	Earned	BP Pr/Loss
1st	Axe Scar	93.883	59	4	11	14	$158,024	62 BP’s	640 BP’s	Pr 578 BP’s

Wrap Up:

Total BP’s earned was 3,196 for a BP Profit of 2,442 BP’s, with the only loss being by the “Expensively” Bred horse. Taking them out of the equation the 9 Bargain Bred horses earned 3,020 BP’s with a profit of 2,690 BP’s,

That is an average profit of over 380 BP’s per Bargain Bred. This is a very pleasing result as most of my normally bred horses do not return a profit on BP investment.

Forgetting Breakfast Dancer who was an obvious failure let us look at some of the facts and stats that appear from studying the above results

• ONLY ONE horse won a Non MCOS race (2 in fact)
• NOT ONE Horse broke triple digits for their best SP (Best was 99.863)
• From 392 Total starts we had 24 wins 44 places and 47 shows Giving us a win percentage of 6.12% and ITM Percentage of 29.34%
• Our 9 Bargain Breds earned on average 7.70 BP’s per start
• They also earned $787,015 in Prize Money or just over $2,000 per race.

By selecting small fields and racing as close as possible to your last race (same track if you can) it looks possible to get a decent BP return on a very small BP investment

The BP’s earned have allowed me to breed 5 horses

King Cnut

Make A Coarse Joke

Iga Ninja

Smarty Spinner

War On Tyranny

These all are progressing along nicely with the possible exception of Iga Ninja. War On Tyranny after 9 straight losses won his Maiden Claimer, so I backed him up into what I thought was a safe $75000 Claimer which he duly won but player cwk5 saw something there and spent his 150 BP’s and claimed him, gelded him and he jumped 15 SP points and has put in 3 solid 100+ SP’s in allowance class (BUGGER!!)

Overall I would definitely class this experiment in Bargain Breeding using whatever old mares you have hanging around unused out on the farm with bargain sires quite a SUCCESS!!!!

Would love to hear the views of the readers on if you think it was a success or a waste of time.

Cheers

Linton (aka dingo333 of Yellow Dog Racing)