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Kashi · Jul 12, 2016 8:13 PM

This might sound dumb but how and who does the judging on the horses. How can you have your horses do better at shows. Is it based off who enters there horses first in the shows. Please just give me the scoop on the horse shows ect......... Thanks

RoseFlute · Jul 12, 2016 8:57 PM

Not a dumb question at all! Each horse has a point system (separate from the accumulated show points) that determines how they'll do in a given show. Every time they train, they'll gain a few points, depending on what their PT is and whether they are Altered, and every time they show, they'll roll dice to see where in a small range of their points to see what their precise score will be. Consistency determines how big of a variety each horse will roll through.
I've heard that every time their score reaches certain numbers, they'll jump to the next showing level, which is why your horse might do well in shows one week and terribly in shows another week, despite their score rising. :)
There are only two ways to help a horse show better: training, and altering while they can still train so that when they train, training will do more. :P I love how simple it is. We can focus on the really fun stuff. :D
Oh, and hand entering your horses so that they don't all go into the same shows does nothing whatsoever. In fact, if you have all of your horses in one show, you get all the points and prizes from it, when if you had separated all of them, the sizes of the shows might have been smaller, thus giving out fewer points. :) Any confusion? :P

Kashi · Jul 12, 2016 11:01 PM

Thank you so much. You explained it so well. Thanks again

RoseFlute · Jul 13, 2016 7:34 AM

Thank you, you're welcome. :) Anything for clarity.

SandycreekFarm · Jul 13, 2016 1:32 PM

Here's more specific information about the showing levels.

There are eight show levels, with four grades in each. The grades are Local, Regional, National, World. A horse starts out in the Local grade (except for Level 1 which I'll say more about in a bit), stays there until they gain enough score points to "Level up" to Regional in that level, and so on until they get to National for the level and add enough to their score to level up to the Local grade in the next level, when they will repeat the sequence of grades. All horses will eventually reach a point where they will start to gain only minute fractions of a point with training. We say that they have "Leveled Off" and don't expect them to advance much farther up the showing ladder.

Level 1, In-hand, has a very narrow range of scores in each grade, and horses may start out higher than 1 Local if their base score is high enough, which most of them are. There are only 10 score points for the whole of Level 1.

After the horse gets to 2 Local (Green under Saddle), there will be 10 points in each Grade for every level, though level 5. After a horse gets into Level 6, there will be more than 10 points in each grade, but I'm not sure exactly where the leveling up point is. If a horse gets to 8 World, it will stay there until it ages out of the game.

Level names:

Level 1--In Hand
Level 2--Green Under Saddle
Level 3--Green Over Fences
Level 4--Training
Level 5--C Level
Level 6--B Level
Level 7--A Level
Level 8--Grand Prix.

In some places the name of a specific Level/Grade will appear as a number and letter--1L, 2W, 3R, and so forth.

In other places the name of the Level and Grade will be written out--A Level National.

Kashi · Jul 13, 2016 6:30 PM

Does it matter if they have tack? Does it help? I laugh when my foals get put into a jump off class. They must be frisky little buggers. Thank you everyone for the scoop on the shows.

Salvistar · Jul 13, 2016 7:34 PM

Tack does not help or hinder a horse in the shoes. It is just for fun to fancy up the horses.

ConfluenceFarms · Jul 13, 2016 8:18 PM

Wasn't Ammit, at one time, when tack first came out, really evasive about whether or not it helped?

SandycreekFarm · Jul 13, 2016 8:19 PM

At least that is the current status of tack. I think Ammit has occasionally mentioned that this might change in the future, but she has so many upgrades going in right now, such a thing might not happen soon.

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