Newbie Tips
There are many ways to play this game but the two main goals are ratings and/or color breeding.
It's understandable that you want to buy every pretty pony you see but this is pretty bad for your wallet
❥ Do NOT capture!
Whaaat? You can capture wild horses? Awesome!
Yes it is! But the chances are low that you get something worth keeping, besides it's pretty pricey!
You shouldn't capture horses until you can afford to lose a couple of bucks. Until then get yourself some nice horses from the market.
❥ Get PPP Show Geldings (you can buy colts too and geld them yourself)
Showing your horses is the best way to get money. You can show any horse; foals, mares, stallions but geldings (and high ratings) will train up faster
and the higher the level of your horse; the more money they get from winning shows! You can enter a horse three times a week in shows.
You can put mares on Cycle Suppressant at the vets office to get the same training effect as geldings, but this costs money and your mare won't be able to breed that month.
❥ Every monday the game starts a new week. This means you can feed / train and show your horses again!
Your horses won't starve if you don't feed them, but you will be unable to show them.
❥ Regulary check the contest forum
Many players and clubs(us too!) hold contests or giveaways now and then. Contests vary from art to naming to trivia's ect ect or just plain giveaways!
Other TipsHarvest Hay
In a 100 acre pasture with 20 quality you get 6000 haybales or 200 round bales
Use all discipline riders:Each rider can train / ride / show up to 10 horses.
So especially for newer stables it is important to safe money and keep the weekly costs as low as possible.
You can do this by using only all discipline riders and assign as many horses to them as possible. So you keep the costs low and they still earn a pretty penny, because riders count less than 10% in the show results.
Using single discipline riders with only 1-5 horses assigned to each cost way too much for a new stable!
When you start off your stable, you should try to get e.g. one level 4 rider and buy / assign up to 10 level 4 horses to him.
You can find such horses quite cheap ( <5k ) in the horse sales.
It does not matter if those horses are mares / geldings / studs and it does not matter which ratings they have as long as they have the right level and are cheap.
Additional you can hire a level 5 rider and assign up to 10 level 5 horses to him.
Stay away from capturing in this time!
They are only level 2 and take up to 6 weeks training before they will start earning money for you!
99% of the captured horses are lower than SSS rated and will take 8-12 weeks before they earn any money!
Then show and train those leveled horses for 1-2 months to build up decent funds for your stable.
If you have soem PPP mares among the show squad, you can brood them out in these first months.
After some weeks you should be able to buy another barn, build up more show stock and earn even more money to get you some really decent and high rated & colored breeding stock!
And once you have more than 3 barns and are settled, you can start to use single discipline riders, if you still want to!
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