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Also dont forget, if you havent done so already, to join in on the New Player Discussion thread for the month you joined to get some free stuff! (Im pretty sure thats still a thing). And theres also a FAQ that has a lot of good info, and a forum post about information for beginners Pinned under Announcements.

Eight year player chiming in. :D

You've been given some great answers already, but I'll step in to add my 2 cents worth.

1. Papers are an indication of a horse's breeding ability. Breeding horses with same level papers (as VioletStables explained) makes it more likely to get intact foals, but since neutered horses get a showing boost, collecting and showing them is a good thing for your stable.

2. The recommended balance is at least 3 neutered horses for every intact horse in your stable. Raising the number of neuters per intacts is not at all a bad thing.

5. Performance Tests give you an idea of how long horses will add points to their show score before leveling off. Leveling off usually happens when an intact horse reaches an age that matches their PT score. Neuters keep increasing their show scores for another year. So, an intact horse with a PT score somewhere in the 9.? range will level off when it turns 9. A neutered horse in the same range will level off when it turns 10.

Every horse (almost) starts out with a possible show score between 1 and 10. Each time it trains, its show score will increase by a given amount. Horses are placed in their show classes based on their show scores. Except for the one that comes in last, each horse in a class receives a certain number of additional show points based on where they placed. These are the points that are permanently part of the horse's statistics and add to its owner's showing bonus. You need to train your horses once each real life week and can show them twice each week. If you go to the left menu bar and select showing, then My Show Entries, you will find a chart that shows the full range of shows divided into Levels and Grades. Levels indicate the complexity of the course horses will encounter in a class. Grades indicate the area from which horses come --Local (a county show), Regional (a state, for instance, in the US), National (draws horses from a whole country), World (draws horses from many countries).

6. Horses are entered in classes based on their current show score. Each level/grade covers horses within a 10 point range of show scores--11-20, for instance. This holds true until horses reach Level 6, when the point range of scores per level increases by more than 10 points, but I don't know any exact figures. Placing in a class is based on the horse's show score, not the number of show points it has gathered.

7/8. Perfect Foundation horses will have a Breeding Ability of 100%, papering C/Yellow, the top of that range. They will also have a PT score of 9.9. They will be 100% consistent in their show scores both times they show in a week. Exceptional Producers will have B/Red papers, but their PT scores can be anywhere. Exceptionally Perfect foundations will paper B/Red (top of the range, though the exact breeding score percentage is hidden) AND will have 10.4 PT scores*, and will have the same show score each time they show in a real-life week. Exceptional Show horses will have PT scores between 10 and 10.5. Their breeding ability is a toss up. Ordinary creates have highly variable paper and PT scores.

*Thanks to CeffylDwr for pointing out an error I'd made.

Thanks for that correction, CeffylDwr. I was working in something of a hurry to finish before driving my husband to a doctor's appointment. He could have driven himself, but I had my daughter's income tax forms to get into the mail, so it seemed best to make one trip rather than two.

I'll go correct my essay. :D

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