[0.9.9.9] - 2026-08-28 | Sheep Meadow Road Games

Added

Unemployment benefits added to the game
In standings show jockey strike rate table
Writers (human) have started working on reformatting emails and making them more interesting overall, some new emails might also popup from time to time!
Stable detail pages now have staff history, where you can see history of staff and how they have effected the stable

Improved

As jockey/unemployed, you can now buy syndicate horses
You can now sell your syndicate horse shares (at a discount) to a random NPC
Auctionhouse and racecourse prestige now effects income/interest
If you buy a plane and car you can now use those for travelling
In negotiation screen for a position, show where the owner/manager is willing to go based on your reputation
The minimum amount of shares you can buy at once is now 1 instead of 100
In share buy and sell there are now quick amount buttons
You now need to wait 2 years before IPO of stable
Work on game efficiency
In automation settings for the stable you can now export and import the settings
Auction lot numbers balanced, and prized accordingly
When autoregistering players horses, it now also bumps CPU horses
In game rules there is now a setting for age jitter/uncertainty in potential and ability, default is on
Work on auction and racecourse balance in general
World generation is more efficient
You can now get children even if not married
You can now quick offer from context menu on venues also
For auctionhouses and racecourses, you can now use context menu to copy either financials or the recurring events, and then do a range select and paste these onto your other venues. This makes it super quick to setup multiple venues the same way
For stables you can now use the context menu to copy automation settings and paste them to your other stables, you can also with context menu set active stable now
With context menu you can now quarantine, quick sell, rehome, send to sanctuary and put down horses also in bulk
You can now give raise and bonus with context menu
Saves are a bit bigger but much faster since we changed compression level, example a large file took 1 minute to save with around 60MB now takes around 2 seconds with 70MB
Relative date unit can now be capped at weeks or days in localization settings, this helps in registering for races since 1 month is quite broad timeframe two races could be either 1 day apart or 29 days. Default is now week.
Automatic staff assignment has now been split from automatic training, the staff assignment should also better match the staff skill levels with the horses
Jockey conflicts are not anymore first come first serve, but the jockey tries to pick the best horse to ride
When searching persons now say what stable they work at since names are not unique
In tables if there are now multiple entities, you can double click the entity to go to it without a row being tiedt to just say opening a horse or race results
Made family asks a bit more reasonable
In horse description change change how the fame world gets assigned, and also a GOAT tag
In upcoming races you can now change the jockey and running style
In race live preview you can now skip to own horse
Spritesheet operation performance improved. Preparing horse animations for a race takes ~80% less time than before

Fixed

If a player controlled stable turned on automatic firing it did not work
A bulk firing path could leave ghost staff tied to horses
Tenure lowered from 180 days to 90 for the automatic firing functions
If a stable has 0 horses, the calculation how many staff to fire did not workjockey
Max auction commision now 25%
Jockeys also got a cap on salaries
Freelance rides are not all now 1K
When using custom horse names, remove the unkown stable from standings
As jockey you can’t anymore change horses or staff travel options in map
Travel cost has been rebalanced
Stale syndicate share prices
Jockey sponsorships now have a cooldown between offers
Items simplified to 1 brand per category of type
When company had public float, you could discount buy it from stable page
Removed some employee goals
For auctions apply the overcharge penalty
Balance auction sponsors
Betting generation now has demand response as the other sliders in racecourse financials
When a stable liquidated they did not release the auction houses
Fullscreen with “Minimize on focus loss” enabled should no longer bounce straight back to fullscreen after minimizing
Betting result email was not sent sometimes
Make cheapeast marriage option cheaper
Overlapping UI in Championship People tab and Horse page training tab
Featured market should work a bit better for younger horses
Finance page showed the wrong value for your owned racecourse asses
CPU had horses with wins in maiden races
Table remembered the previous search but didn’t apply it when moving back to the scene
If the CPU has put an horse or venue on sale, it is now the final price without premium
In email for economic result, the market value is now 12 months, same with training emails to see longer history
Ratings are displayed as ints now uniformly
When you got staff loyalty email and pressed an options, the buttons did not disappear leading to confusing UX
Form order fixed, not sure when this broke but it went left to right in recency instead of right to left like standard
When making a Stallion or Broodmare auction it wasn’t using the age limits you set
Time trial reference times list overflowing
Tooltip for person’s ability and potential referred to a horse
Travel costs are charged again
Coat patterns: varnish roan appaloosa, dominant white, blanket appaloosa, few spot appaloosa, leopard appaloosa not showing correctly
Road To showing Points Leaderboards and Direct Qualifiers as empty

Original announcement on Steam