Breaking down the Equinics: A recap by the Numbers
First off this article couldn’t be possible with the monumental efforts from the people over at Vermont! THANK YOU! This has to be the best equinics ever with turnout and publications at the BTB. A very exciting time in our simulated universe, indeed. To start, let’s take a look at the main focus behind the equinics and that is the people of this great game and the residencies they are a part of.
Gallop Racer Simsters (GR Simsters) stole the show. Taking home a monstrous 42 points winning the gold medal 13 points (Two Golds and a Silver). They truly had a very strong overall team, competing well on both surfaces (Turf 20/Dirt 22), genders (Male 20/Female 22), all distances (10 sprints, 12 mile, 9 classic, 11 Marathon) and showing only slight weakness across age (11 Three year olds, 31 Older). Congrats to Given and GR crew.
All Star Racing took home the silver with a total of 29 points, largely influence by girl power! (18 Female/11 male). ASR also was strong at the classic distance winning a majority of points between 8.5-10 furlongs (5 sprint, 5 mile, 11 classic and 8 marathons).
Empire State Racing was the only repeat medal winning team narrowly missing the repeat silver and finishing with the bronze at 28 points. ESR strong performance was due in large part by their older performers (4 Three year olds, 24 Older).
| Turf | Dirt | Sprint | Mile | Classic | Female | 3 YR Old | |
| First | GRS (20) | GRS (22) | ESR (11) | GRS (10) | ASR (11) | GRS (22) | VT (15) |
| Second | BS (16) | ASR (16) | EAAA (11) | URC (9) | BS (11) | ASR (18) | MIDAS (13) |
| Third | ESR (14) | MTB (16) | GRS (10) | BS (8) | GRS (9) | ESR (15) | GRS (11) |
| Fourth | MIDAS (14) | VT (15) | MIDAS (10) | VT (8) | MTB (8) | MTB (13) | URC (9) |
| Fifth | ASR (13) | ESR (14) | NWRC (9) | EAAA (6) | Queen (8) | BS (12) | 5 Tie (8) |
The community aspect of this game is what makes it so great, so I encourage the readers to participate in the Best 2014 Equinics Moment Thread here: Click here for MB Thread. Of course the community aspect wouldn’t be around if it wasn’t the love of the horses, specifically the love of breeding new horses.
Top Sire of the game was a tie between two members of the Mr. Prospector family. Unbridled’s Song (Gold 2, Silver 1, Bronze 2) and Distorted Humor (5 bronze) both took home the most medals. Pivotal and Galileo took home the most Golds with 3 each. Twenty-one (21) total sires took home more than one piece of hardware. Again Mr. Prospector family stole the show, his influence is directly related in the sire line in 5 of the listed horses, not to mention another 3 with female influence.
| Sire | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| Unbridled’s Song |
2 |
1 |
2 |
5 |
| Distroted Humor |
5 |
5 |
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| Medgalia D Oro |
2 |
1 |
1 |
4 |
| Bernardini |
1 |
1 |
2 |
4 |
| Dynaformer |
1 |
3 |
4 |
|
| Pivotal |
3 |
3 |
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| Galileo |
3 |
3 |
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| Montjeu |
2 |
1 |
3 |
|
| Awesome Again |
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
| War Front |
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
| Sea the Stars |
2 |
1 |
3 |
|
| Street Cry |
2 |
2 |
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| Kitten’s Joy |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|
| Oasis Dream |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|
| Curlin |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|
| Encosta Del Lago |
2 |
2 |
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| Deep Impact |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|
| Raven’s Pass |
2 |
2 |
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| Frankel |
2 |
2 |
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| Monsun |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|
| Dubawi |
1 |
1 |
2 |
A.P. Indy stole the show for dam sires bring home an astonishing 10 medals (5 Gold). Kingmambo also had a very good showing 8 total (3 Gold) and Storm Cat finished third with 6. Below is a complete chart of dam sires with two or more medals.
| Dam Sire | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| A.P. Indy |
5 |
2 |
3 |
10 |
| Kingmambo |
3 |
3 |
2 |
8 |
| Storm Cat |
2 |
2 |
2 |
6 |
| Sadler Well’s |
2 |
2 |
4 |
|
| Rainbow Quest |
2 |
1 |
3 |
|
| Danehill Dancer |
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
| Mr. Prospector |
3 |
3 |
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| Seattle Slew |
1 |
2 |
3 |
|
| Montjeu |
1 |
2 |
3 |
|
| Dynaformer |
2 |
2 |
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| Nureyev |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|
| Gone West |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|
| Bernardini |
2 |
2 |
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| Miswaki |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|
| Ghostzapper |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|
| Speightstown |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|
| Seeking The Gold |
2 |
2 |
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| Smart Strike |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|
| Alydar |
1 |
1 |
2 |
Breakdown of Sires (total points)
|
Division |
Turf |
Dirt |
Sprint |
Route |
Long |
|
First |
Galileo (15) |
Medaglia (14) |
UB Song (15) |
MDO (13) |
Pivotal (10) |
|
Second |
UB Song (14) |
Pivotal (10) |
Pivotal (5) |
Street Cry (10) |
Montjeu (6) |
|
Third |
Montjeu (10 |
Awesome Ag (9) |
Exceed & EX (5) |
Galileo (10) |
Galileo (5) |
|
Fourth |
Sea The Stars (7) |
War Front (9) |
Zabeel (5) |
Bernardini (9) |
Curlin (5) |
|
Fifth |
9 Tied w/ (5) |
Bernardini (8) |
4 Others (5) |
War Front (9) |
AA and KJ (5) |
Breakdown of Dam Sires (total points)
|
Division |
Turf |
Dirt |
Sprint |
Route |
Long |
|
First |
Kingmambo (15) |
AP Indy (21) |
Miswaki (8) |
AP Indy (21) |
AP Indy (10) |
|
Second |
Rainbow Quest (13) |
Storm Cat (12) |
Speights (6) |
Kingmambo (19) |
Dynaformer (10) |
|
Third |
AP Indy (11) |
Kingmambo (11) |
Dane Danc(6) |
Storm Cat (13) |
Sadler Well’s (8) |
|
Fourth |
Mr. Prospector (10) |
Sadler Well’s (8) |
6 others (5) |
Mr. P (10) |
Ela-mana-Mou (8) |
|
Fifth |
SW and Nurey (8) |
9 Tied (5) |
Sadler Wells (8) |
6 Tied (3) |
Great effort, another good insight to what works around the breeding aspect, thanks Cadet
Interesting Post Cadet. I enjoyed reading it and hopefully will learn from it.
Great stuff Cadet, thanks for the effort and time!
Good job Cadet..you can now be a full-time BTB writer!
wow, you have grasped the concept of numbers and words!
You truly are edumacated 😀
Congratulations Cadet. Fine research here.