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How do you know when to stop showing?
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Sorry I know this has been asked previously but I am not sure what to search for. How do you know when to stop showing a horse? I heard its when they place in the lower 1/2 but what if they place in the lower half the first show and the top half the 2nd show? And if they're not leveled off yet?
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This is what I do - someone else may have a different opinion, or has a method that works well. I show everything, except pasture mares. If you wanted to stop showing a horse, I would at least wait until it leveled off to see how it was doing. Once or twice a month, I check to see who my bottom point earners are, and if they are outrageously, stupendously bad, I may cull them, but otherwise I leave them. Checking some of my top point earners, some of them have had spells where they did really poorly, but picked back up at a later time.
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I do not even look at how a horse is doing until after they have leveled off. Once a month I do a search for horses sorted by points this year. If they have zero points or only one or two, I move them to a barn that is never shown. I keep them, as the points that they had earned up until then still add to my daily bonus.
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If a horse levels off in a bad place and is getting dead last in almost every class, it still contributes to your show bonus, assuming the horse has already accumulated some points. Even if you never show the horse again, it still adds to your show bonus. Let's say you have a horse with 500 total points that has leveled off and keeps getting last place in every class. A horse contributes .75 times its total number of points to your show bonus each week. So even if your 500 point horse never earns another point for the rest of its life, it will still earn .75(500)=375 hbs each week in show bonus. This is about 53.57 hbs per day in case you like to think about daily show bonus instead of weekly. This happens even if you stop showing the horse and never enter it in a class again.
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I don't look at any of my show horses past putting them in barns to generate points. I have over 2k horses, I take my show ponies, put them in barns, set them to auto show and forget about them.Thanked by 1ConfluenceFarms
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That's what I do, too, Kassie! On WHG we managed the 'show careers' of the horses, and while it was fun, it was a LOT of work! Of course it helped keep my barn smaller, but that didn't stop other people from having mega barns!
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I'm too lazy to do all that work lol.
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I also don't look at how a horse is doing in shows until it's levelled off - it takes too much work to keep up with them, and unless they place dead last they still gain points.
Once they've levelled off, I take a look periodically to see how they're doing. If they've been placing dead last for several weeks or more, I stop showing them (but keep them for their points). Otherwise they keep showing.
I show everything from birth right up til death unless it's levelled into a crappy spot.Thanked by 1HeritageStables -
Since the show system was updated to be cheaper and and the daily show balance added I never look at my horses to cull or pull from showing unless I absolutely fill my barns to bursting and need to make room for a few more babies before year end roll over. That being said my show horses have reached the size that by the time I've filled the show barn I've set aside enough IV's to buy another mega barn for more show horses and my breeding barns are rarely full as they are sorted by generation so I have 6 or 7 barns and my primary barn is more of a holding station when sorting incoming babies or creates for a few minutes or days at the most.
If you are running out of room and looking for ways to trim down your herd I used to use the search and search by age and overall points and cull the bottom few horses of each age bracket starting with the oldest and working down until I get through the levelled off horses. I never cull a training horse and also leave intact horses alone (before foal mare papering almost all my mares were spayed after they had 3 foals or before 10years old) a horse roughly trains until their age matches their PT score