Please help! New player struggling for in game money

[lukehawkins96]

I am new to the game and I enjoy it when I am playing. However I always seem to slowly run out of money before I can buy any horses that would be able to boost my income. Any suggestions? I have lowered the grade of my feed, the staff wages and nothing seems to work. Betting isn't exactly reliable for income either! I have also managed to squeeze wins out of some horses that cost around £20k but again it isn't sustainable. P.S I regularly watch and follow racing so I understand grades, weights etc.

[jakemann52]

I play on Normal difficulty and ive found the best thing to do is to try and get yourself a standard breeding mare and a high fee stud and if the potential bar is low when the filly/colt is 2 years old, sell them straight away. On my Jumps save, i make 5million a year breeding 6 mares

[lukehawkins96]

Thanks for the help. I will look at getting into breeding as soon as. I start the game with £100,000 and I think the most I got up to was £165,000.
I feel like I am missing a trick. I have taken out loans but the interest just speeds up the loss of money. is there a routine to follow at the start of the game to build your money properly?

[Draa]

I'll give you a few tips that might help.

I play as an owner instead of playing as the trainer. It's important as an owner to be able to breed and develop bloodlines. Playing as a Trainer doesn't allow you to do that because someone else owns the horse.

It takes a long time to do develop good horses, and even longer great horses, so be patient.

Playing on Easy is probably the best when you start. Easy mode doesn't make the AI easier to beat. it just handles training your horses so that you can focus on racing and breeding them.

The starter horses usually suck so sell them. Unless there's a super horse in the starter horses, I usually sell them. You can often expect between $1M and $2M (or more if you get lucky) for all of your starter horses. Then you'll have a little money to play with.

I usually take the money from selling my starter horses and then start a breeding program to breed horses to sell. I don't really worry about racing the first 3-4 years until I can have 20-25 cheap mares breeding each season. They can make me a lot of money and then I can concentrate on finding my own quality horses to breed and race.

You have to fund your eventual racing barn somehow so breeding and selling horrible horses works best. You can then sell their offspring to fund the main stable. Selling 20 horses each season could be $5M-$20M in your account. That money can be used to build a nice stable of racers.

I follow every listed auction looking for horses to buy. I'm looking to breed quality horses to race myself and develop bloodlines. Auctions are color coded. Learn what colors mean what (a Blue Symbol means breeding mares). And visit each auction when you have the money. I've found some superstars in those auctions, but be prepared to pay.

Learn the levels of races. If you don't know them already it would benefit you to learn them if you want to be successful in SO7. You don't want to put a horse in the wrong level race. Depending on their confidence you could damage your horse like that and make them worse.

Learn to read the speed ratings of your horses. The speed rating helps you understand what potential your horse may have. Generally, the higher the better, but sometimes if you have a green(inexperienced) horse they may have poor speed rating/s until they figure it out. It takes some time to be able to read that.

I'll try to think of a few more and then post them tomorrow. Good luck.

[SouthernPitBuII]

The best way to start a new game is by selling all the horses you are given at the start of the game. Just selling the 2yo horses should net you nearly 2mil. Once you've done that you'll want to immediately buy the stud barn and the breeding barns. Goto auctions and buy up as many ***CHEAP*** mares as you can and place them into your breeding barn, once you've done that match your mares to the highest level (RTG) / lowest cost studs that are similar in preferred distance as the mare you are breeding it with. Once you've got that all set up you will never have another worry about money again this game again since every season you should have several million dollars in yearlings to sell at the beginning of each season. Really by the end of the first season you should have around 20-30 yearlings ready to rock and roll. Just make sure you keep up with your breeding's because early in the game that is going to be your most lucrative form of income.

[SouthernPitBuII]

Draa I just realized I more or less just said exactly the same thing you did before I even saw your comment. Glad to see I'm not the only one who uses that little loophole in the game.

[Draa]

Originally posted by SouthernPitBuII:

Draa I just realized I more or less just said exactly the same thing you did before I even saw your comment. Glad to see I'm not the only one who uses that little loophole in the game.

Lol, great minds think alike.

[lukehawkins96]

Thank you both that really helps :)

[SLambo01]

Hi,don't know if this is relevant to you or if you've discovered it by now BUT if its Money your after to set your Stables & BUY Horses then you should try the BETTING Hack/Cheat I'VE just Started & i sell any horses in the stable i don't want or you can choose to sell them all its up to you What you do then is GO and Watch a days racing Make sure you know all or as many results as you like ,Note them down if you want Then once you got enough Info Or the days racing is over What you do is push the Control ,Alt & Delete Keys together which brings up Your Task Master Options right click & end the SO7 program now load it up again through your last save & what should happen is you faced with the same days racing you now know most of the results for i say most because they do occasionally change but you then want to whack a nice wager on the horse or horses you know should win & at a good price & job done LOADS A MONEY done right & on a few occasions & its possible to earn Many Millions Personally I've just bet on a Reverse Forecast R/F witch in valved two horses either horse can come first & second in any order my two horse witch i knew should come first & second @ 40/1 & 9/2 id put a decent amount of money on it too so banked from that bet around 47,000,000 all the best mate & ENJOY!!!!.

[exzazxe]

One of my favourite starts, Ownertrainer, simpletraining, Easy
Sell all the horses and you should net 2-3 sometimes 4+ million
At this point i sjip through the entire first year with no horses
Until the New pre seasojn 2 Yo auction
Now i decide what my auction cap will be i find 400k means you can buy 1 horse for each year for 5 years
When buying a new 2yo i look for a g1 in the range of 100-350k
I start buy getting sprinters until i have a 3yo or 4yo sprinter i ike
26 march Doncaster, the Brockleby Stakes is a good start point for a 2yo flat sprinter

[Silly]

Easiest and quickest way is to save game, load it up again, go to race day, skip race too result, check the result and once you get an easy winner, close the game via Task Manager (very important to close this way) load game again and back on horse then save your game and repeat. If it loses this time, Task Manager close game again and try again. I get 20m easy in less than an hour

[Anysport]

Real Life retired Bookmaker - So I will give you some pointers of how to beat the Bookie !
1. Do not bet in Handicap races, as by design {weighted penalties} they should all finish in a Dead-heat..
2. Always check the Graph of the horse that you fancy, only bet on improving horses, never bet on a declining horse.
3. Does the horse get the distance it is running at ? If the horse is running more than a furlong further than its stamina rating, it will struggle to get the distance..
4. The races I look to bet in are Sellers, Group Races, Stakes, Maidens with available form, Novice with previous form.
5. Play every day of the game, do not skip weeks. Look at making 2 to 3 bets per day only.
6. Always check the Horse Rating, although this does not tell you if a horse is in decline, this used with the Graph will give you an idea of the horses potential if it gets the right course conditions, luck in racing and a decent jockey.....
Good Luck, it can with practice be done.....

[exzazxe]

The quickest way to make money in a normal training on setup.
AUCTIONS YOUR 3 HORSES ON DAY 1
YOU NEED ABOUT 300-350K .
buy breeding Barn (200K)
REDUCE THE STAFF WAGE AND FEED LEVELS TO MINIMUM UNTIL YOU HAVE HORSES
(THIS REDUCES YOUR MONTHLY OUTGOINGS.
I lookt at the auctions 23 March, 3 May, 13 JUne
Buy horsex less than 50 k with a G1-3 rating.
its best to get 2 horses year 1. Spend less than 10k on each horses breeding.at the start of year 2 you will have 2 useless 1 yo's so auction them off for March 1st
You will have enough cash to buy another horse and or breed them
you can hold 1 of your 1yo for following season.
you can easily have in access of 1 million bucks by year 3 which yoiu can use to upgrade
swimming pool, dirt track and starting stalls all effect the quality of your training.

sorry bout caps i cant type and look at the screen, cant be bothered to edit

[fredreed2000]

What I do is sell all my horses and buy horses that have won stake races. I make a lot of money that way. But only buy horses who have won stake races and buy the young ones not the older ones.

[El Presidente]

1) - Sell all horses
2) - Buy as many yearlings as you can
3) - Go through the first season without ANY horse
4) - At the start of season 2 - Sell ALL your new 2-year old horses, Get a breeding barn and off you go.
5) - Using 2) more gives you even more money and if you concentrate on it before you know it you'll have £100m+.

[justus]

you can make millions of dollars on your first day if you follow this exploit
go to the races select a horse in first (or any)race bet ALL your money on it if it wins save
game if it loses crtl alt del to bring up control panel and simply end your game start your game and you still have your money do this as many times as you like