Players emigration to Derby Fever

Back at the beginning of 2013 a group of players from another platform emigrated to Derby Fever and the rest is history. My buddy Greg (Gcliffo) invited me to join Derby Fever and I did not regretted as I’ve been enjoying the game since then. Greg was a member of ESR back then. The beginning was raw and clueless, I was totally lost breeding, trying to watch the races, even trying to enter my horses on the right race. The load of players (Summerset, Harrylan, among others) who joined Derby Fever were hungry and trying the learn the game to compete. We started buying sires and claiming mares, starting from scratch.

I started reading any article in the Forum, Denovo pages and a long gone website “Hall of Fame” where you could has read about the greatest horses of the game, Basketball Jones, Allied Assault, Sunnybank Memorial (The best horse on the SIM in my opinion), I seek you (The only triple crown winner), you could find the different records for the SIM (Derby Fever) … unfortunately the website went down and that rich information is gone.

I remember after a month of two I decide to join the chat and that was a fascinating experience, some member gift me some horses (All new players will get those gift) and welcome me and others to the game, wow I felt really welcome. Later on I joined the ERS residence.

I started breeding and racing, winning here and there, no a great performance, but a learning experience. I changed my approach to the game and I started looking around and see what the best players (Given, Cadet, Lenny, trotter…..) were doing, even without a good base of mares to start breeding, started looking on claiming races to try to get good mares with a good back end to the best of my knowledge during that time.

One year playing the game I had my first G1 winner scratched breed Legends Blend – Shanghai Boddy x Joannesburg x Street Cry he won his first three races after that was a disappointment, never hit the winner circle again.

My second year was better still without good mares I keep scratch breeding and I hit the jackpot with a couple of horses and I was lucky enough to breed to Scat Daddy x Saint Ballado x Broad Brush a Queen was born, Swapsco Kitty, she won her first three races including a G2, it’s hard to describe my joy at the moment, I wasn’t listen the advise of veteran players to rest my 2 years old more than 30 days, I was running the Kitty quick and often , 30 days and less. She lost the two next races and was wondering about what happened to Legends Blend. I was wrong, the Kitty has a full tank and started amazing the SIM, she won four G1 straight , including an open G1 Movieland Futurity against Deadmoney Cadet (EOY), where she still own the record for that race with 1:41 3/5.

Since I started playing the game every single player was talking about the Bluegrass Derby, I was so excited my mind was focus on the “Bluegrass Derby” with the Kitty and enjoying a pair of newbies Dubalaal, Makfi x Caerleon x Lyphard, who won his first 7 races, and Lady Attica, Excelebration (IRE) x El Prado x Red Ransom, both of them EOY. Well was a real rollercoaster, one of my dreams in the SIM come through, have a horse on the Bluegrass Derby, the Queen made it possible when she won The Sand Castle Derby, beaten the boys again. The Derby distance was a little too much for for the Kitty finishing in 5th place.

The Queen made it to the “Hall of Fame”, wow what a great filly and what a great 2016, a HOF (Three G1 records holder) and two EOY. Just two weeks ago the Kitty has her first Black type winner, Mrs. Kitty Big Brown x Scat Daddy x Saint Ballado. Hard work, some credits and a little bit of good luck paying off. If I could do it, anyone could do it…. enjoy Derby Fever!!!!!