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Lifetime payout is the sum of all the horse's current daily payout from the day you are viewing it until the last day of its 17th month (the minimum age horses are guaranteed to live).

Lifetime payout does not account for adding to the daily payout via showing and it does not account for any additional month over the age of 17 that the horse may live.

As Seaswell says, you may auction horses age ten and over and their starting bid will be their lifetime payout. It's a good way to cash in on a horse that isn't adding to its daily payout because it leveled off at the bottom of its class (or at a very low class level with minimal earnings and points).

If a 12 year old horse has leveled off placing 1st or 2nd in Grand Prix World classes, they may be adding a couple hundred points a month to their accumulated points, increasing their daily payout routinely (plus their hbs winnings). For these horses, the lifetime payout would understate the potential earnings of the horse. But if you needs the hbs now for whatever reason, it may make sense to auction such a horse. You'll get immediate (well, with 48 hours) hbs at the cost of future hbs in a couple months.

The same horse that leveled off coming in 4th in 2Local may actually cost you money (entry fees exceeding show winnings with no points being added). So it would benefit you to auction the horse now and get the hbs today rather than wait for them to trickle in over several months. Plus, it would free up a stall for a better-earning or younger horse.

Lol felding got to it faster than I could.