Showing Your Horses

Introduction to training, showing, and points.

• Training Your Horses
• How to Enter a Show
• Earning Points & Your Daily Showing Bonus
• How do Shows Work?
• Important information about geldings and spayed mares!

Training Your Horses

Manual training vs. auto training with upgrade. Foals can start training when they turn 2 years old and can continue to train until they "level off." What does "leveling off" mean? The show grade/levels? Altering (spaying/gelding) your horses and the training bonus.

How do I train my horses?

• • Training, just like in real life, helps prepare a horse for their show career, and to progress up the various levels in shows.
  • Free account members can train their horses once a week.
    • Go to the navigation panel and click the Showing link
    • From the drop down menu select “Train This Horse”
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  • Training is done automatically for upgraded accounts. Please be aware that, due to the number of horses in the game, auto train may take up to 24 hours to complete.

What does "levelled off" mean?

• Levelled off means the horse has reached the limit of its training.

  Horses usually level off roughly when their age is around their PT (Performance Testing) score. A horse will still continue to train and increase their show score but the score won’t raise as fast as it used to and will eventually taper off to earning less than 1 point per training session.

  This does not mean the horse is no longer useful, far from it! Horses that have levelled off continue to hold their total points, and will continue to EARN points as they place in their classes. Just because their training points have levelled off does NOT mean that their performance in the show ring is lacking!

How to Enter a Show

• How do I enter a show?
• Free Accounts - simply find the small blue flag icon next to the horses name on your barn page, or on each horses individual page, and click it.
  • You will be asked to select a show from a list of the available shows. Remember, all of the classes on the list will be appropriate for your horse!
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• Accounts with a Basic Upgrade can enter a full barn at one time using the "Enter this Barn" button, below the list of horses in that barn
• Premium Upgraded Accounts have it even easier! In the Showing section of the navigation panel select Auto Show, and the game will automatically enter your horse in the best class available twice a week!

Earning Points & Your Daily Showing Bonus

How do I see how many points my horse earned from a show? Why do I want to accumulate points? About the daily showing bonus as your main stream of income and the lifeblood of your stable.

~How to read show results, and what they mean. I still struggle with this. ~Follies

Current Lifetime Payout

About the current lifetime payout. This is an estimate of the amount your horse will earn you in its contribution to your daily showing bonus based on the number of points it has currently accumulated. This amount can go up as your horse earns points, as it's a percentage (how much?) of your horse's total points. But it will also go down as your horse ages and has fewer days ahead of it to be contributing to your daily showing bonus. Once a horse reaches 17 years old and is in danger of passing away at rollover, the current lifetime payout will only show a total of it's payout through to the end of the month, since anything more than that is not guaranteed. If the horse survives rollover, the current lifetime payout will go up again from zero to the total amount the horse will earn you over the course of the month.

How do Shows Work?

• How do shows work?
  • Horses on Hunt & Jump earn points for every show they enter. Those points earn your barn bonus cash that is added to your balance every day; extra money on top of your weekly paycheck!.
  • To make money you just have to show your horses. You should show every horse you own in order to earn points to increase your daily showing bonus!
    • Any show will do, the game automatically lists classes that will be a good fit for your horse. Don't worry if your horses share or even fill up a whole class. It doesn't hurt your winnings and is perfectly ok to do so. Horses can show up to twice a week.
    • Foals/Yearlings do not train until they turn 2 years old. Since they don’t train, they won’t improve. Their training scores will stay the same until they turn 2
    • Horses living in pastures do not show.

What are showing levels?

• • • You can see a chart of all the levels and grades if you click on "My Show Entries" under Showing in the left menu bar. The levels are sometimes referred to by number and other times by their full name. Here is a list of the available levels.
      • Level 1-- Inhand (Horses are shown in a halter class, not ridden)
      • Level 2 -- Green under saddle (horses are being ridden, but not jumped)
      • Level 3 -- Green over fences (horses are now ready to be jumped)
      • Level 4 -- Training (horses are being schooled to improve the height and complexity of the jumps)
      • Level 5 -- C Level (more difficult, higher jumps)
      • Level 6 -- B Level (even higher jumps and more complex patterns of jumps)
      • Level 7 -- A Level (increasing difficult of jump courses)
      • Level 8 -- Grand Prix (the highest, most complex jump courses, done by the most talented horses and riders. A horse would have to be competing at this level to qualify for the Olympics in Show Jumping, for instance.)

Why aren't my foals doing well in shows?

• • In foal/yearling classes (horses less than a season old) showing is literally a coin flip. They can’t train yet and there are only two horses in level 1L classes, so winning is totally luck based and has nothing to do with Ability.

Important information about geldings and spayed mares!

Important information about geldings and spayed mares!

While they may not be able to procreate, spayed mares and geldings are the backbone of your program! As soon as they are spayed or gelded they begin to earn extra training points with every training session. This gives them the potential to be better show horses, so they earn more show points. Recognize their value and don't just toss your spayed and gelded foals away. Running out of space? Use that showing bonus to buy more barn space for them. While your breeding herd may be more fun, your showing herd is how you maintain your breeding program!