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0.9.3 - 2026-03-31

Added
- Sound for randomizing silks
- Championship page added, you can now see the current rankings for the seasons for the awards
- In horse detail now have in pedigree the breeding attempts as a table
- Localization option for time formatting

Improved
- In my employment, show the assigned horses chemistry level with you
- Negotiation skill now effects how many negotiation rounds you can do in staff hiring and also interviews
- Staff poaching can now have other than cash also
- Updated credits

Fixed
- Caretakers are now not reset for pregnant mares
- Some journalist answers were not giving prestige
- Some emails in jockey mode were targeted at manager
- UI layout for the potential and ability stars in person details
- Harness racing car and gate sounds
- When being manager, you can't construct racecourses or auction houses if they dont fit your budget
- In racecourse construction show for US city names the state
- When skipping auction, it did not pickup the current situation, so sometimes the last bid would be lower than what was happening live
- Bug in jockey mode, that when you started own stable, the sidebar items stayed hidden
- Staff comments now use barn name of horse
- Custom schedules main menu table would break when you used the toggles
- In breeding table, if you double click you now move to the horse profile
- Winning any graded race (G2, G3, Listed) incorrectly awarded Grade 1 prestige (100 points); now awards correct amount per grade
- Breeding standings never counted graded wins (was comparing integer to string)
- Some race creation paths did not set races_grade, so wins from those races never awarded prestige
- When you were jockey and had own stable, the race page would break
- Some social emails fixed
- Harness race times are now shown as an average per kilometer or per mile, depending on the selected measurement system. NOTE: For now, all race times will be shown as harness race times if the Race type option is set to Harness Racing.

[0.9.2.9] - 2026-03-30

Added
- Ability to work as a jockey in road to owner (WIP)
- Nickname feature for persons

Improved
- Responses to events can sometimes now give prestige
- You can now open the breeding page if another stables horse is standing stud/leased mare
- Staff now have ability and potential stars

Fixed
- All of the cities from custom race schedule were not being included
- Entry fees being in other category
- Counter offer recepient name should be fixed
- Staff conflicts should now have a slight cooldown
- Estimate for condition should work a bit better
- Auto race invite resetting
- Don't allow rival challenges from the same stable
- Aligns auctioneer lines better with the situation, also fixed some typos
- Both parents now get initial relationship when child is born or adopted
- If horse is dead, don't animate it
- When accepting offers don't get negative social relations
- Emails requiring actions are now blocked from deleting before action has been taken
- Probability for colic decreased
- The racecourse economics page should work a bit better with bigger fonts

[0.9.2.8] - 2026-03-29

Improved
- Show birth date in person description
- Fixed term contract staff can also train now

Fixed
- Probability of foal syndromes divided by 10
- My Employment tab content now scrollable so buttons are accessible on smaller screens
- In cheat console now show also racecourses under venues
- Job applicant email not working

[0.9.2.7] - 2026-03-27

Added
- Horse builder added to developer tools settings as toggle, when toggled adds a sidebar item where you can create your own custom horses
- Jockey silks added (flat racing), you can change these for your stable in the company -> silks
- Added to settings (interface) toggle to also show horse genotype in the horse description
- In horse filter also added ability to search genotypes
- In bookmarks you can now create groups, you can also bookmark horses to different groups via context menu
- In stables now show prestige tab, and also backfilled data (not perfect) for old saves

Improved
- Added for context menu and staff dropdowns also their skill stars
- In standings also show prestige points
- There is now a toggle to keep doing DYI shoings on default
- Fallbacks in trades are now manager -> owner and not other staff
- Get notification when sponsor pays you win share
- For better UX brought starting year to the first screen

Fixed
- When you had multiple counter-offers you could get multiple payments, added more trade safety
- Auction houses now needs to be built before you can create auctions
- Auction funds were not visible in finances
- Job applicants were converting twice their age, resulting in age 59 for all participants
- Name merging was not considering prefixes, resulting in some horses having names e.g. (fat
- Show on map racecourses even if city has under 100K people
- Trying again to fix the monthly cost tooltip being sticky
- A long stable or character name should no longer make clicking the 'Load game' button impossible
- Player's first and last name are now limited to 20 characters each. Stable name is limited to 50 characters. This was changed to avoid hitting the operating system folder path character limit and therefore breaking the save system.
- The estimated condition should be a bit more accurate in race registering
- In interaction scene sometimes you would see wrong options available, should now work better
- Cash accumulation in the trades should now calculate correctly
- Saves where you use say 1900 as starting year, horses should not have negative ages anymore

[0.9.2.6] - 2026-03-26

Improved
- In market made offers table now have withdraw button
- Ability to participate in races as spectator, similar to auctions
- If you bet on a race it also auto-participates you (you can change this behaviour in settings)
- In pedigree view now show small icon of horse

Fixed
- When person applies for job, you don't get poaching penalty anymore
- For lower tier races, name them simpler
- Add age limit to job applicants
- For graphs the tooltip sometimes became sticky
- Racecourse and auction house prices should now not be 0 in some views
- Faulty track assignment in race generation logic
- Jockey gallop highlight animation
- Horses can no longer pass through each other at the start of a race