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Some Tips for Better Showing
January 20, 2010 11:17:11 AM
1. make sure all are in rank 10 stables - and keep up on board payments - any one not paid even if the fee is zero can be kicked out at any time - remember that other players are fighting to get their horses into rank 10 stables too.

2. do not breed horses until age 22 or older. Any with breeding fees put back at the default 5,000,0000 with out the commas.

3. use lessons to make sure your rider settings are correct - do not assume because you found a chart that the chart is correct; many are not.

4. do not train young foals. Your job when a foal turns 2 or when you acquire any horse that is over the age of 2 is to learn its best event not to train it into a best event. Once you train a horse out of its natural event it quite often never does as well. When a horse has poor performance consistently in its natural event that is why you consider re-training.

5. make sure your horses all have mixed feed.

6. not all horses are great show horses but the better your care the better they do overall. So to put it simply - spoil your horses, give them the attention they need.

7. Play consistently - meaning try to play every day. Don't skip about. Show at least in dailies seven days a week even if you can't find stable shows for all of them that often. Consistency often brings better results than concentrated showing one or two days a week.

8. keep your lines clean - inbreeding sometimes does affect show performance.

9. Don't get discouraged. Every horse, every account has "bad days" even sometimes a "bad generation" so keep working with them. The next group of foals might do better. Especially if you breed at the end of a horse's life. Foals pick up 1/3 of the parents points. When you breed early you don't get the quality in your foals that later breeding would.

I hope that helps some. Good Luck!! ~Sunny

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