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Shawstead Racing

Update 01.11.2007

Shawstead Racing is currently coming to the end of its 3rd full season of Virtual Racing.

In that time we have seem the demise of many stables at raceclubs but also many who joined at a similiar time to myself beginning to flourish. Whilst we have not hit the headlines like our web hosts stable "bigboysteve" we have been accumulating winners fairly steadily and the current total is 208 wins from 1437 runs, a 14% strike rate, not too bad, and coupled with a place ratio of 38%.

We are hoping to get a 100 winners this season, 27 needed in November.

Currently Shawstead has 42 horses but most are being hibernated for age changes and the racing number is just below 20.

We have some lovely G2s both young and old, who steadily accumulate wins for the stable, but the new star this season is Harry Hatchett. Harry is a classic distance horse who figures very highly against the TT charts but more to the point I think has a good inate ability as well. He has won some nice WFA races this year and has run horses like Cozmic Millenium close in an eclipse race.

I plan to sup him if he gets an average to good age change and go after the Derby next season. Hopefully that will signal the beginning of shawstead climbing the ladder to become a slightly classier stable than it currently is.

On a different note to end this update, I would just like to say that I felt it is very sad to lose the likes of meat and I am hoping that the proposed handicapping system will not cause disruption amongst the playing members and lead more to leave.

It is great game and I still enjoy it immensely.

Update 29.04.2007

On 26 April 2007 - 23:44 Puppy Love won for the 32nd time giving the Shawstead Stable its 100th winer from approximately 750 runs.

The stable currently is operating at about 20 horses but unfortunately continues to have a high turnover with many horses either being claimed out the stable or retiring to the glue factory.

I would just like to thank Gary Barr for selling me Puppy Love which was a great help to a new stable.

Good luck with your randoms.

Update 01.04.2007

Well objective achieved. 54 winners in the season just gone and basically breaking even.

Still really lacking class in the stable and having to swop and change via the claimers.

My best G2s remain productive without hitting the randoms in the big races, Keep on Losing and Puppy Love have both made the G2 hall of fame (quite chuffed with that actually) and were both unlucky with Lady Jocks in the World Challenge Races, although Keep on Losing still placed 4th on very unfavourable ground.

Sales ring has been worse than rubbish for me, thus far I think about 80 horses and I am still to hit a good grade 1, let alone challenge.

I have used mostly credits although like most people in the early days fell into the trap of spending cash.

I am awaiting bonus credits from the recent promotion, I bought 32 (most could not beat the barrier) so I will have credits for another 16 and that will be all for the time being. Hopefully with fingers, toes, ears and eyes crossed I might pick up something raceable from those.

Anyway a new season dawns and the age change whilst certainly not being spectacular has not been awful. So my aims for the season are to increase on 54 wins (i think 100 is too far this season but maybe next) and to add some class to my stable even if I have to pay for it. I realise I am not a seasoned pro but am still happy I know what to do with a good horse if I get one. In fact last season I did bid Ł240 for Run with the Wolf and Duopoly Yard outbid me in the dying seconds to snatch it for Ł244. He ran a good second in the Cesarewitch so my judgement cannot be too far astray.

Anyway good luck to all.

Cheers Phil

Call My Name.

I am a 35 yr old recruitment consultant who likes racing. I have owned shares in a syndicate before. It was called Steadshaw and had horses with Tony Newcombe in Barnstaple and Bridget Nicholls in Somerset. No stars I am afraid and the people who ran the syndicate had more ambition than people contributing to the horses, so after a couple of years it ceased to exist, it was good fun though. One of the horses certainly still appears, she is called Miss Skippy and she is still trained by Tony Newcombe in Barnstaple.

I have played a couple of other online games Reality Racing and LogicalSoccer both of which were good fun, but you may be surprised to read the reason I like Raceclubs better is the Random Factor.

In my first season I got 23 wins which I was happy with and on a reasonable budget, of course like most people starting I did not break even and have no illusions about doing so in the near future. I do aim to make my 50 wins this seasons and at the time of writing have 17 horses.

My best horse by far is actually a G2 called Keep on Losing. Well he was badly named, as now I realised he is a stayer not a middle distance horse he should keep winning.

Updated by owner 06th February 2007

Shawstead Racing has today achieved 50 wins when Black Roses narrowly held on in C and D 4-7 yr Novice Race.

Black Roses.

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