The $410 Special
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2026 6:00 pm
It's been real guys, but you can find a ton of my horses for $410 reserves in the auction. Most are ehhh. Plenty are decent enough to win a few more races.
Despite comments to the contrary, I have been wrapped into the "scraping" conspiracy going about right now.
I created some tools that were either data managers or wrappers (re-wrapped the website in real time to be mobile friendly).
You can see them here. I released none to the public. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZOM ... cTqeUeWuQM
I admittedly did create one tool which searched claiming races and allowed me to claim a horse. This is actually what a scrape is. It is the same as clicking but gets the data for you in one place to deal with.
IMO Francua reminds me of my dad who was a machinist. My dad was great with a lathe, until machines did his job faster and better. Spent the next 10 years trying to convince people no machine could do it as well or error check, etc, etc. What he created was people thinking that there were people hacking the game which could not be more true.. I digress, I have nothing against the dude., (aside from the weekly twitch streams where they give away a years worth of BP sires to their 8 closest friends and now we have bluebloods winning $2000 claiming races).
This game, the only one I play on any platform anywhere, is stale, old, looks like my grandpas spreadsheets, and my attempt was to make wrappers to let me enjoy the game more and maybe play it on my smartphone since phones have been out 2 decades able to run apps. Instead, god forbid anything be made actually better, it got used to whip up fear amongst people who know nothing about tech or what was going on.
Anyways, I am going simply downscale for now, so pick my bones. $410 of the sim money that has been worthless for 2 decades each.
Despite comments to the contrary, I have been wrapped into the "scraping" conspiracy going about right now.
I created some tools that were either data managers or wrappers (re-wrapped the website in real time to be mobile friendly).
You can see them here. I released none to the public. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZOM ... cTqeUeWuQM
I admittedly did create one tool which searched claiming races and allowed me to claim a horse. This is actually what a scrape is. It is the same as clicking but gets the data for you in one place to deal with.
IMO Francua reminds me of my dad who was a machinist. My dad was great with a lathe, until machines did his job faster and better. Spent the next 10 years trying to convince people no machine could do it as well or error check, etc, etc. What he created was people thinking that there were people hacking the game which could not be more true.. I digress, I have nothing against the dude., (aside from the weekly twitch streams where they give away a years worth of BP sires to their 8 closest friends and now we have bluebloods winning $2000 claiming races).
This game, the only one I play on any platform anywhere, is stale, old, looks like my grandpas spreadsheets, and my attempt was to make wrappers to let me enjoy the game more and maybe play it on my smartphone since phones have been out 2 decades able to run apps. Instead, god forbid anything be made actually better, it got used to whip up fear amongst people who know nothing about tech or what was going on.
Anyways, I am going simply downscale for now, so pick my bones. $410 of the sim money that has been worthless for 2 decades each.