@WH, I have tried that and while it is ok, I still have horses who appear ready to show based on their training that do horribly. Part of me thinks more stables are showing which means it is generally just more competitive.
Hm. I just went through by hand earlier and entered shows(I use easy enter days 2 and 3) and a lot of my SD boys didn't go up week 3. I also forgot to geld before some of them got their first two weeks of training so I'll give this first batch a pass.
I think I tried following some of the guides that were out there in 2016 when I originally started playing and nothing seemed to work until I just went horse by horse and looked at the training bars
I have done both. My old account I had probably 800 showing horses that were a mix from all my different breeding programs. I just restarted so I'm going to play around with SD while I build back up
I don't really want to cull all my geldings as I think I will lose a lot, but maybe I need try SD. I have noticed training seems frequently skewed with my AD horses.
I haven't used that method before but my guess would be as the horse goes up levels it gets less accurate. When a horse is level 1 or 2 and weak in movement for example it's probably only down 1 or 2 bars comparatively and will still do well. But when they get to level 7 they could be down in mvt by 3+ bars and it gets skewed