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So I would like to start by saying any advice is more than appreciated. Next, I had a couple accounts a while back.. years back.. and always found this community to be an awesome more than helpful bunch. That being said I quit being involved before because I never got the hang of it and I am trying to avoid that this time. Alllll of that being said...
I am trying to do things right this time and not be intimidated to ask the questions i need to ask soooo..
I keep reading the forums and checking out any posts that have to do with showing and training and keep seeing people mention following a horses weekly progression.. and in my own case i have purchased a horse with weeks listed in her bio.. how do we know these numbers??. I am assuming you watch the bars on each horse page and each bar represents a week??
Also in showing I have read the new member help guide and other posts that say to start with showing previously trained geldings and maybe level four and above geldings... wheres the best place to search for these seasoned gentlemen. I have tried multiple options in the actual search tab and came up empty..
I really want to make this work this time so again any info is so very much appreciated! |
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Hi, welcome back! The training tracking tripped me up too, but now I definitely see how helpful it is. Usually people will list tracking like "wk 4: 222222" or something similar. The numbers represent the bars for movement, intelligence, etc. listed in the little graph on the horse's page. Each week when the horse trains, ideally some or all of these numbers will go up. However, there's no way to predict exactly how these will change because each horse has different strengths/weaknesses and then they have varying strength within those characteristics (i.e. a horse's strongest trait might be heart but they may be weak in comparison to other horses). Your strongest horses, at least eventing wise, will go up in each trait by weeks 5 and 9 (I could be wrong, but it's something similar to that). Some horses will have great training and steadily go up in all or most of the categories regularly. Others may be weaker and go up one in only one trait a week. As the horse gains more bars on each category, they level up. The tracked training is good because it shows you the horse's strengths and weaknesses for better breeding matches, or if you're more focused on showing, it will help you determine what to show the horse in and how strong they are.
As far as geldings go, I usually will go to horse search and choose any breed, geldings, age less than 15 (just because I like to at least get 2 months out of them for showing before worrying that they may pass away), and then level ____ or above in whatever discipline you're aiming for. Also make sure you click the for sale box or else nothing will come up (I forget this step a lot lol). Sometimes there aren't any for sale, so you have to check periodically. The auctions can also be a nice way to find horses that are relatively cheap and a lot of the times there will be geldings with some training mixed in.
I've only been here for a short time, but that's what I've learned so far! Hopefully it helps some! |
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