Is that your net profit or your show income? I would say that is probably a reasonable profit but it depends on how much you are spending on entering shows.
For example my showing the other day:-
You entered 187 horses into reg. shows for 107600.
You had 187 horses compete in reg. shows earning 170772.
Profit: 63172. Profit per horse: 337ebs.
I have nearly 500 horses, this was quite a good week and I could show a good proportion of them but last week only 100 of them were worth entering into shows - i.e. the majority of the time, horses won't place well in shows.
I would really recommend reading the showing guides on the forum as they are really helpful.
The main problem is that showing is really competitive and horses only place well and earn money for a week or two before they level up - if you look at some of the shows the first 6-8 places all have a perfect score which is actually a bit ridiculous.
Added to the fact that often you end up competing against your own horses, it can be difficult to place well.
So whilst showing is a good money earner it is incredibly competitive and you can only really earn lots of money when you have lots of horses. I do find it a bit frustrating that some of my horses will only place 7th or 8th before they level up and essentially seem to make no money at all, which is balanced out when you have lots of horses showing but is a lot more noticeable when you only have a few.
The main things I have found from starting fairly new a couple of months ago (although I did play the game several years ago so kind of remembered how to play). I do spend a bit of time entering shows and do it individually from horse pages which may not work if you are time pressured. Eurynome's showing guide is really good at explaining how to guage show entering from the showing barn page, I would highly recommend looking at that.
- Try and max out your riders - try to get each rider assigned to 8+ horses, particularly at higher levels.
- Train horses in AD and go for geldings with a different ratings for the different disciplines. I am experimenting but I suspect that SPE equivalents may be the best show geldings as you can show them for longer; you can show in the E rated discipline until they level up there, then show in the P rated discipline, then finally the S rated discipline, by which point the E rated discipline will hopefully be able to be shown again. Having a horse with perfectly even traits mean they level up in everything at once and they spend most of their time stuffing hay while they train up and not earning any money! Alternatively you could train in a single discipline for a few weeks to give a "head start" to a discipline (if that makes sense).
- Get rid of horses with a low Hrt relative to other traits, they always refuse even if they should place well in a show so they are useless apart from for dressage.
- To place well in a show, horses should have 2 training bars per level in each of the traits for that particular discipline and then an extra bar or so in one or two of the traits. It isn't a perfect system but works pretty well.
For example
Horse Eden - Online Horse Game is placing well in jumping as he has an "extra" bar in 2 of the traits. I suspect he will level up shortly.
I think the barn manager can be quite helpful if you don't have a lot of time but is better for single discipline horses, as stated above it is better IMO to micromanage AD horses and get the most show profit from them.
Hope some of that may have been a bit helpful!
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