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Milestones Contest/Giveaway - Horses and Cash Prizes
  • So I've been thinking and thinking and thinking about how to celebrate my 2nd anniversary on this game and reaching 100K daily bonus. Both of these events occurred within a week and a half of each other in mid April, but it has taken me this long to figure out how to celebrate.

    Edit: I realized that I might have confused some people. All players are welcome to participate. I know that for newer players getting that basic upgrade is huge which is why I mentioned it, but anyone can play!

    For newer players, a prize of 375,000 hbs to go towards purchasing the basic upgrade. To enter for this prize, pick a number between 1 and 100 (please try not to double up on numbers), I will use a random number generator, and the person with the closest number will win. If for some reason there is a tie, the individuals involved will pick a second number, a second number will be generated, and the winner is the closest.


    I also am offering additional cash prizes for a different type of game.
    Look through my intact horses. I have 27 stallions and 582 mares that are of breedable age. Pick a horse that you think I haven't used as much as I should have and tell me what you like most about them and why I should use them more. The winner will be who presents the most compelling argument.

    Grand Prize: 100K hbs
    Second: 50K hbs
    Third: 25K hbs
    Honorable Mention: 3 prizes at 10K hbs

    Keep in mind that the younger the horse is the fewer opportunities I have had to use them, also 4 stallions and 26 mares are just now available for their first breeding seasons and may be at 0 foals, this does not mean that I don't intend to breed them this season.


    Finally, I have a number of horses who I think should be used more than I can or will due to where my breeding focus has been for the last several seasons. Here's a link to those horses: https://hj2.huntandjump.com/member.php?uid=29342&b_id=18827
    For each horse you are interested in, pick any card from a standard 52 card deck (again please try not to double up on cards for the same horse), the winner will be whoever picks the correct card.
    There are 20 horses available, and a chance to win at each. In theory, the winning card for each horse could be the same


    These contests will run through the end of the month, or for the card portion when someone guesses the correct card (this is reliant on me checking rather frequently, so we'll see how it goes during a busy month!). I also have already picked the cards and numbers, hopefully I don't lose the paper between now and the end of the month!

    Please use the following format:

    Upgrade - ID - Number

    Cash - ID - Link to Horse and Your Argument

    Texas Tea - ID - Card
    Storm Warning - ID - Card
    Fire of my Soul - ID - Card
    Autumns Arrival - ID - Card
    Stars N Stripes - ID - Card
    Cherry Drop - ID - Card
    Pocket Sun - ID - Card
    BBB - ID - Card
    Heart of Holidays - ID - Card
    BBTS - ID - Card
    Out With a Bang - ID - Card
    White Wedding - ID - Card
    All Washed Up - ID - Card
    Champagne Fizz - ID - Card
    Big Beaut - ID - Card
    Come to Mama - ID - Card
    SOP - ID - Card
    Gimme Basic - ID - Card
    Sparkling Cider - ID - Card
    Here to Help - ID - Card


    Happy hunting!
  • Upgrade - ID - Number

    Cash - ID - Link to Horse and Your Argument

    Texas Tea - ID - Card
    Storm Warning - ID - Card
    Fire of my Soul - ID - Card
    Autumns Arrival - ID - Card
    Stars N Stripes - ID - Card
    Cherry Drop - 47885 - 7 of hearts
    Pocket Sun - ID - Card
    BBB - ID - Card
    Heart of Holidays - ID - Card
    BBTS - ID - Card
    Out With a Bang - ID - Card
    White Wedding - ID - Card
    All Washed Up - ID - Card
    Champagne Fizz - ID - Card
    Big Beaut - ID - Card
    Come to Mama - ID - Card
    SOP - ID - Card
    Gimme Basic - ID - Card
    Sparkling Cider - ID - Card
    Here to Help - ID - Card
    This account inspired by Cherry Drops.
    Wild Bay Drafts with no w20.
    Reveling in bright darkness.


  • Upgrade - ID - Number- Have Premium Upgrade already

    Cash - 48800 -
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    RFA RS Cherry Drop


    She's a beautiful Cherry Drop Mare who's 12 years old and has never foaled. She's still scoring pretty well for her age in shows and earning points. Your primary barn is full of light horses frequently with double Sooty, white markings and have won awards for Sabino horses. How many of them have DP? Cherry Drop is double DP and would make a great base for finding out what DP would do to some of those coats in the absence of Sooty. She's also double wild bay which I've heard makes some unexpected and interesting results with darkening genes. She could give you at least 4 foals to play with, probably more eggs from a flush.
    Double DP, double Sooty is also pretty cool with the white markings if you feel like coming to the dark side. ;)



    Texas Tea - 48800 - King of Spades
    Storm Warning - 48800 - Ace of Diamonds
    Fire of my Soul - ID - Queen of Hearts
    Autumns Arrival - 48800 - 3 of Clubs
    Stars N Stripes - ID - 8 of Spades
    Cherry Drop - 48800 - 2 of Diamonds
    Pocket Sun - ID - 10 of clubs
    BBB - ID - 5 of Diamonds
    Heart of Holidays - 48800 - 10 of Diamonds
    BBTS - ID - Jack of Hearts
    Out With a Bang - ID - Queen of Clubs
    White Wedding - ID - 7 of Hearts
    All Washed Up - ID - 9 of Clubs
    Champagne Fizz - 48800 - 5 of Spades
    Big Beaut - ID - 8 pf Diamonds
    Come to Mama - ID - 3 of hearts
    SOP - ID - Ace of hearts
    Gimme Basic - ID - King of Clubs
    Sparkling Cider - 48800 - 4 of Clubs
    Here to Help - ID - 8 of hearts
  • Lots of stuff up for grabs! I don't want to keep it all to myself!
  • Congrats on making your milestones!

    Upgrade - 48504 - 17

    Cash - 48504 -
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    RFA Romulan Empire BS2


    Ten year old gorgeous bootstrap mare with only three foals. The het pearl and het satin would work nicely with many of your studs, and riding horses are lovely. Also, her name is Romulan, and with a name like that, there should be a small herd of baby Romulans running around, in the hope of establishing a New Romulan Empire.

    Texas Tea - ID - Card
    Storm Warning - 48504 - Ace of Spades
    Fire of my Soul - 48504 - Nine of Spades
    Autumns Arrival - 48504 - Five of Spades
    Stars N Stripes - ID - Card
    Cherry Drop - ID - Card
    Pocket Sun - 48504 - Ten of Spades
    BBB - ID - Card
    Heart of Holidays - ID - Card
    BBTS - ID - Card
    Out With a Bang - 48504 - Seven of Spades
    White Wedding - ID - Card
    All Washed Up - ID - Card
    Champagne Fizz - ID - Card
    Big Beaut - ID - Card
    Come to Mama - 48504 - Three of Spades
    SOP - ID - Card
    Gimme Basic - ID - Card
    Sparkling Cider - ID - Card
    Here to Help - ID - Card
    ~Purveyor of the finest riding horses in Rakia~
    Specializing in dun with the perfect amount of white.

    Always ISOs: Dun Splash Expros, show ponies, Onyx ponies, star riding horse straws
  • Thanks Felding!

    There's still time to get in on all this action!
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    RFA RS Fire Of My Soul
    ID: 47765 - I already have premium upgrade - this made has several years left but is beautiful and could have very pretty foals
  • Upgrade - Already have. :)

    Cash - 40763
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    RFA Empire Of Stars IV

    Poor Empire of Stars here has no foals at all at age fourteen! Now I understand how this lovely lady may have slipped past you. Her splash is covering up a lot of her shiny genes. But they're there - look at that lovely dapple butt! This lady is a line-bred Meteoric Milestone descendant with Pearl, Hom Sty, Hom Flaxen, Silver, W20 and (of course) Splash. She's 16.2hh, too.

    Now, I wouldn't exactly put her in my even/line breeding program - at her generation, I'd probably be looking for Blue. BUT I think she'd make a LOVELY bootstrap mare for you. With the right stallion, I bet you could get some VERY beautiful, tall, and high-PT show babies from her.

    For pure example, I think she might cross lovely with this stallion I found in public search:
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    Velvet Wine SB2 1

    That's just my opinion, though! (And I'm a little obsessed with Pearl. ;) )


    Texas Tea - 40763 - Knight of Spades
    Storm Warning - 40763 - Queen of Diamonds
    Fire of my Soul - 40763 - Five of Diamonds
    Autumns Arrival - 40763 - Three of Clubs
    Stars N Stripes - 40763 - Queen of Spades
    Cherry Drop - 40763 - Knight of Hearts
    Pocket Sun - 40763 - Ace of Diamonds
    BBB - 40763 - Ten of Clubs
    Heart of Holidays - 40763 - Knight of Diamonds
    BBTS - 40763 - Two of Spades
    Out With a Bang - 40763 - Four of Diamonds
    White Wedding - 40763 - Ten of Spades
    All Washed Up - 40763 - Two of Diamonds
    Champagne Fizz - 40763 - Six of Clubs
    Big Beaut - 40763 - Three of Clubs
    Come to Mama - 40763 - Ace of Spades
    SOP - 40763 - Ten of Diamonds
    Gimme Basic - 40763 - Two of Clubs
    Sparkling Cider - 40763 - Ten of Hearts
    Here to Help - 40763 - Knight of Clubs
  • Only a few days left!
  • Alright, I've got an update on the card guessing portion!

    @Spectrum , were you peeking at my cards? Because you guessed 3 correctly! Congratulations you won Storm Warning, Fire of My Soul, and Gimme Basic!

    Lots more prizes to be given out!
  • @RunFarAway

    No peeking, I promise! I had a lot of fun guessing, though. It's a pretty neat concept. :)
  • @FeldingFields is the winner of the upgrade!

    There was a nice selection of different horses picked for this segment, and some pretty good reasons why these horses should be used. I'm curious if while you were searching through my heard, if anyone noticed patterns or anything glaringly obvious.

    Here's a few things I know about my herd. Before roll over I had 108 *Gold bootstrap mares of breeding age and over 300 bootstrap Blues. With rollover I believe the *Golds now stand around 128. I try to stay under 200 breedings per season for herd management purposes aka my sanity. So I bred my highest quality mares and work my way down depending on what genes outside of my primary bootstrap line I want to breed that season. Which means a lot of horses don't get bred. Also because of my extensive bootstrapping and because I like the color... almost all of my herd is Hom Black, and Hom pearl, with about half also being Hom Sooty+ and Hom Satin. I also have quite a bit of Silver sprinkled in and only a few bays.

    Now to maybe some were curious as to why these horses don't get bred, I hope to answer that below. For the most part DP is wasted in my herd because there isn't anything for it to interact with as there isn't much red with my herd being primarily black based with no agouti. With bootstrapping as my primary breeding goal and so many *Golds, I stopped breeding foundations in the late summer of last calendar year. When I got into bootstrapping I lost a lot of interest in the other lines I had going. I got tired of Splash 3 and decided I didn't want to breed for it, but several months later I got lucky enough to get an intact colt with W3 from a straw breeding and have been working on a small Meteoric herd with him.

    Without further adieu, here's how everyone did! Also everyone is getting the horse they picked if they want them unless the horse was won in the Card Drawing portion!

    Honorable Mention - @Williams005
    3rd Place - @FeldingFields
    2nd Place - @Looper
    Grand Prize - @Spectrum


    Here's the Card Drawing results!

    Spectrum was the only person to correctly guess any cards. However, I want these horses to go to homes where they will be used rather than be stuck in a stall with next to no pasture time. So if you guessed the correct card number or suit, you win the horse!

    Pocket Sun - 9 of Diamonds - @Spectrum (Ace of Diamonds)
    BBTS - 6 of Hearts - @Looper (Jack of Hearts)
    Out With A Bang - King of Clubs - @Looper (Queen of Clubs)
    Champagne Fizzy - 7 of Clubs - @Spectrum (6 of Clubs)
    Big Beaut - 5 of Diamonds - @Looper (8 of Diamonds)
    Come to Mama - 10 of Hearts - @Looper (3 of Hearts)
    SOP - 10 of Spades - @Spectrum (10 of Diamonds)

    Congrats to everyone! I hope you all enjoyed playing! I will be sending cash prizes out later today and will also coordinate with the horse winner via PM.
    Thanked by 1Spectrum
  • Thank you RunFarAway! :) If no one won the Cherry Drop then I'd be interested in buying her from you.
  • @Looper , I'll send her over with the others!
  • Oh goodness, thank you so much, @RunFarAway!
    ~Purveyor of the finest riding horses in Rakia~
    Specializing in dun with the perfect amount of white.

    Always ISOs: Dun Splash Expros, show ponies, Onyx ponies, star riding horse straws
  • Thanks so much for running this giveaway, @RunFarAway! Congrats on your second anniversary. :)

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