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PaintsStables · May 23, 2016 2:32 PM

Hi Everyone :-h

I talked with Cheers after her first Barn Giveaway Contest. And decided to have a Second Round Barn Giveaway Contest. Mine will be a little different, since I thought a medium size show barn would be nice for TWO players. :D
So, I will be giving away a 90 stall barn for two lucky players, at Game Time Rollover next Monday May 30th.
The names will be drawn from a hat by my husband, just to make it fair, since his passion is old, old cars, not horses.

The same request applies for this contest that did for Cheers Contest please. It is for players that want to build their show herds, not to build up your breeding herds. If a couple of intact horses get in the barn it is understandable. I would like you to use this to begin, or further your show herd, and your show bonus!
Anyone can enter, all you need to do is post here.

Example:

Stable Name: PaintsStables
Barn ID #: 362
Number of Horses You Own: 4023 total
Weekly Show Bonus: 852516 hb's last week show bonus
Upgraded or Not: Level 5

And just for fun, check out the Available to Adopt horses also, to help fill your new barn. You will have to PM the individual owners for the Adoptable Horses prices.
http://hj2.huntandjump.com/adv_search.php?status=any&ageg=&agel=&agee=&erag=&eral=&erae=&heightg=&heightl=&heighte=&boneg=&bonel=&bonee=&f_basic=none&f_adv=none&tattoo=Available+to+adopt&f_limit=25&stallion=1&mare=1&gelding=1&spayedmare=1&name=&name_lm=like&color=&color_lm=like&bty=1&lined=lined&foundation=1&sire=&dam=&barn=&owner=&breeder=&e1=&e2=&a1=&a4=&a2=&a3=&f1=&f2=&p1=&p2=&s1=&s2=&s3=&c1=&c2=&c3=&d1=&d2=&g1=&g2=&ch1=&ch2=&z1=&z2=&sa2=&sa1=&kit1=&kit2=&kit3=&kit4=&kit5=&kit6=&kit7=&kit8=&kit9=&kit10=&sp1=&sp2=&sp3=&pax31=&pax32=&rb1=&rb2=&o1=&o2=&l1=&l2=&ice1=&icei=&ice2=&ice3=&ice4=&ice5=&ice6=&ice7=&ice8=&brindle1=1&brindle2=1&wf1=1&wf2=1&wf3=1&wf4=1&wf5=1&wf6=1

Cheers · May 23, 2016 3:18 PM

Yay Paints!!! Im building up my hb stash to run another contest soon too.

I'm not entering, but just for comparison purposes:

Number of horses: 4635
Weekly Show Bonus: 226,217 hbs and growing!

MoonAcre Stables · May 23, 2016 5:27 PM

I'm not going to enter since I just got a new 60 stall barn from the help of you both but I just want to say how awesome it is that you guys do this!

PaintsStables · May 23, 2016 7:06 PM

Great comparison Cheers! Thanks Moon!

Salvistar · May 23, 2016 8:12 PM

Stable Name: Salvistar
Barn ID #: 2358
Number of Horses You Own: 235
Weekly Show Bonus: 36492
Upgraded or Not: Free Account

Thanks for your generosity!

Ritsika · May 23, 2016 10:15 PM

This is so exciting. Thank you for the opportunity. :)

Stable Name: Ritsika
Barn ID #: 6247
Number of Horses You Own: 271
Weekly Show Bonus: 10248 hb's weekly show bonus
Upgraded or Not: Level 5

Maribo · May 24, 2016 2:41 AM

I will add three more barns to the price if you font mind :)

Maribo · May 24, 2016 2:42 AM

If you Dont mind I mean. Lol.

PaintsStables · May 24, 2016 3:11 AM

I don't mind at all Maribo, thanks for the offer!

Hey Everyone,
Maribo graciously added three more barns to the Contest. There will be five winners on drawing day. Thanks Maribo!

hiddenvfarm · May 24, 2016 4:08 AM

Salvister how do you do it? You have a huge number of points for a small number of horses. I have 1000 horses and my show bonus is only 40k.
I am so tempted to enter but I also was just graciously donated a 60 stall barn. A 90 is so tempting. Lol but I will see how many enter. Don't want to be greedy. Lol but wouod love to hear Salvister strategy. Do you have all show horses?

jailee · May 24, 2016 7:02 AM

Stable name Jailee
Barn id 5309
number of horses 476
Show bonus 17153hb
upgrade level Premium grade
Thankyou so much for your generosity. Thats what I love about this game. The way the player help each other.

frostyy88 · May 24, 2016 11:26 AM

Stable name frostyy88
Barn id 9438
number of horses 47
Show bonus 5047hb
upgrade level Basic

Hi im still kinda new and working on builting everything up.. thanks for being so kind <3

Rara007 · May 24, 2016 11:46 AM

Stable Name: Rara007
Barn ID #: 4699
Number of Horses You Own: 319 total
Weekly Show Bonus: 11179 hb's last week show bonus
Upgraded or Not: basic

SummertreeFarms · May 24, 2016 2:09 PM

Stable Name: Confluence Farms
Barn ID #: 1998
Number of Horses You Own: 338
Weekly Show Bonus: 12378 hb's weekly bonus/showing.
Upgraded or Not: Premium

Thanks guys!

Breezey11 · May 24, 2016 4:03 PM

Stable Name: Breezey11
Barn ID: 3394
Number of Horses: 627
Weekly Show Bonus: 14734 hbs
Upgraded or Not: Basic

kassierae · May 24, 2016 5:06 PM

This is great, I missed the last one!

Stable Name: kassierae
Barn ID #: 6224
Number of Horses You Own: 529 total
Weekly Show Bonus: 22756 hb's last week show bonus
Upgraded or Not: Premium upgrade

SummertreeFarms · May 24, 2016 7:12 PM

@hiddenvfarm - if you do a search of Salvistars horses, and sort it by All time Points, you can see that the first 30, or so, horses have over 500 points! You don't even get to the under 100 point horses until number 110! Many of them are older, spayed and gelded horses.

(I am a search fiend! I use the search for all kinds of stuff like this, and reccommend it to the new folks to 1. help them see this kind of stuff, and 2. get comfortable using the search.)

hiddenvfarm · May 24, 2016 7:26 PM

Sounds good:-) thanks:-)

Bourbon · May 25, 2016 5:46 AM

Thank you for the opportunity!

Stable Name: Bourbon
Barn ID #: 4519
Number of Horses You Own: 186 total (22 Show)
Weekly Show Bonus: 14869 hb's
Upgraded or Not: (Basic Upgrade) Level 4

Maddyhall · May 25, 2016 9:19 AM

Stable Name: maddyhall
Barn ID #: 7389
Number of Horses You Own: 53 total
Weekly Show Bonus: 2836 hb's last week show bonus
Upgraded or Not: Basic upgrade.
Thanks for the chance!

nycequestrian · May 25, 2016 1:48 PM

Stable Name: nycequestrian
Barn ID #: 2921
Number of Horses You Own: 28
Weekly Show Bonus: 1714 hb's last week show bonus
Upgraded or Not: Free Account

This is so generous! Thank you.

Salvistar · May 25, 2016 10:39 PM

@hiddenvfarm, Confluence is right. I have a really high ratio of older high point earners in my barns. I don't have tons of space, so I have evolved a few strategies to maximize points per stall being used in my herd.

Strategy 1: Show EVERY horse. Every single horse in my barn is shown twice a week except the foals. No exceptions.

Strategy 2: I spread out my horses to show throughout the week. I don't know if it makes a difference, but I hope that it helps so they compete against each other less.
I also limit the number of my own horses entered together into a show, for the same reason. To keep it easy to remember I only allow 2 of my horses to compete together in level 2 shows, 3 horses together in level 3 shows, 4 horses together in level 4 shows etc. I usually hand enter a batch of horses and then check the show entries page and scratch a bunch of horses from shows that are too full with my own horses.

Strategy 3: Since I have limited space I try to select for breeding stock that shows well and produces well. They have to do double duty! I know a lot of players can afford to keep low PT breeders, but I try to avoid it.

Strategy 4: Part of why I have so many older show horses is just because I have been playing long enough to have old show ponies that started out as little babies in my barn. The other reason is because I very strictly cull my showing stock. Players with lots of room will keep as many showing babies as they can, but I don't. So around the middle of their 3 year old year I look at all of my three year old spays and geldings and keep only the top 3 all time point earners, and everyone else gets auctioned or sold. That way I am keeping only the cream of the crop that will go on to earn lots of points throughout a long life with me. This results in mainly awesome showers in my barn instead of a mixture of awesome and just OK showers. I also like that it will keep my barn balanced with equal amounts of young and old so that I can keep a steady income even as my older horses pass away. Eventually as I get more room I would like to increase to being able to keep the Top 5 or Top 10 point earners of each showing crop. I know that a lot of good showers slip away from me since I am only keeping 3 out of 30 or more showing foals each year...

Sorry for the novel and minor thread hijack. Back to the regularly scheduled program. :)

hiddenvfarm · May 26, 2016 3:30 AM

That's wonderful :-) thanks for explaining :-)

pinestables · May 26, 2016 4:38 AM

Stable Name: Pine Stables
ID: 4579
Number of horses: 35
Weekly show bonus: 2980 hbs
Upgraded or not: no, just a free account

Thank you for this lottery! :D

PaintsStables · May 27, 2016 3:42 PM

Still open until Monday! Anyone can enter.

hiddenvfarm · May 27, 2016 7:23 PM

What the heck. I never win anyways.
Stable name Hiddenvfarm
ID:8013
Number of horses 1100
Weekly show bonus 50k

Dark Mist Farm · May 27, 2016 9:36 PM

This is so awesome of you! It would be nice to put some of my gelded and spayed horses into their own show barn! Haha! Thanks so much!

Stable Name: Dark Mist Farm
Barn ID #: 2310
Number of Horses You Own: 202 total
Weekly Show Bonus: 11272 hb's last week show bonus
Upgraded or Not: Basic Upgrade

hiddenvfarm · May 28, 2016 5:24 AM

Oh I am upgraded too. I for got to say that. I just started in january and I have sunk way too much of my personal money into this game and I just can't anymore. :-)

SkyeWA · May 28, 2016 6:33 AM

Player ID 11378
Stable name SkyeWA
2464hbs show bonus (only been playing for a week! :D)
Level 4 upgrade
#of horses 38

Think that's all required info. I'm trying to save for another barn to separate my show horses into this would be awesome!

Dark Rose · May 28, 2016 6:41 AM

This is so generous of you both, thanks for the chance. I do really need to get more show ponies.

Stable Name: Dark Rose
Barn ID #: 8258
Number of Horses You Own: 80
Weekly Show Bonus: 4596 hb's last week show bonus
Upgraded or Not: No Upgrade

PaintsStables · May 29, 2016 5:23 AM

One more day to enter. The drawing will be at roll over tomorrow night. Good Luck to all entrants!

Thunder Rose · May 29, 2016 11:08 AM

Stable Name: Thunder Rose
Barn ID #: 4149
Number of Horses You Own: 302 total
Weekly Show Bonus: 19342 hb's last week show bonus
Upgraded or Not: Basic

PaintsStables · May 30, 2016 5:48 PM

Still time to enter, the drawing will be at Roll Over tonight.

RoseFlute · May 30, 2016 5:59 PM

FINE okay I'll join Thanks. :P
Stable Name: RoseFlute
Barn ID: 3692
Number of Horses I Own: Around 1225
Weekly Show Bonus: 50k
Upgraded or Not: Basic

PaintsStables · May 31, 2016 7:18 AM

Hi Entrants,

Thanks for playing everyone. My husband drew the 5 names for the Barn Give Away Contest. Maribo and I will PM the winners. Congratulations! The winners are:

1. nycequestrian
2. Dark Mist Farm
3. Confleuence Farm
4. Pine Stables
5. Thunder Rose

RoseFlute · May 31, 2016 7:21 AM

Congratulations, everyone! :D

pinestables · May 31, 2016 7:22 AM

Oh my, thank you! I'm so surprised! :D
Congrats to the other winners!

Thunder Rose · May 31, 2016 8:23 AM

Thank you so much, this will help out so much to get a better show string going. :D

PaintsStables · May 31, 2016 8:30 AM

Your welcome Thunder. :)

SummertreeFarms · May 31, 2016 8:36 AM

Hot Diggity! Thank you, guys!

PaintsStables · May 31, 2016 8:59 AM

Your welcome Dena!

hiddenvfarm · May 31, 2016 9:29 AM

Congrats! Such an awesome giveaway.

MoonAcre Stables · May 31, 2016 10:41 AM

Awesome! Congratulations to the winners!

Rara007 · May 31, 2016 12:14 PM

GZ!

PaintsStables · May 31, 2016 4:25 PM

@nycequestrian and
@Dark Mist Farm.... Both of your new Show Horse barns have been sent to your stable ID numbers. Let me know you got them. I also PMed both of you.

SkyeWA · May 31, 2016 5:10 PM

Congratulations to the winners!! :D

SummertreeFarms · May 31, 2016 6:51 PM

FYI -

Ritsika · May 31, 2016 9:57 PM

Congratulations winners! :D

Thank you again for hosting this wonderful contest, PaintsStables.

Dark Mist Farm · May 31, 2016 10:00 PM

Oh my gosh! Thank you guys so much for doing this. So excited! Congrats everyone.

PaintsStables · Jun 1, 2016 7:14 AM

@Ritsika, your very welcome. There will be more Barn Give A Ways in the future.
@Confleuence, I love your barn name Dena! Very cool!

SummertreeFarms · Jun 1, 2016 8:37 AM

That's to help me remember to keep it for show horses!

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