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Training Tips
« Thread Started on Jun 5, 2008, 10:38pm »

When you join, you are given information about your horses that looks something like this:
TA Flying Colors 2 Ch C Red Ransom x Some Girl
That's obviously fake but, it's the general idea.
TA - This will vary from stable to stable, but it is your stable's abbreviation, and is how we keep track of who own's who.
Flying Colors - Obviously, the horse's name. Until you name it, your horse won't have one.
2 - This can be any number, it is the age of your horse. Remember that a horse cannot be entered in an event until it is 3.
Ch - This is the color of your horse. Ch - Chestnut, B - Bay, Br - Brown/Dark Bay, Bl - Black, Gr - Grey.
C - This is the gender of your horse. C - Colt, F - Filly, G - Gelding, M - Broodmare, S - Stallion, R - Retired Gelding.
Red Ransom x Some Girl - This is the lineage of your horse. It is read as Sire x Dam
Eventing Information
Eventing here is farily simple. Your horse has stats, but they are hidden, so you get to do some guess & check work.

A horse is given the stats of: Speed, Courage, Stamina, Consistency, and Talent. Each of the categories is as number of 1-20, which can add up to a grand total of up to 100, and that grand total is how your horse is "judged" in events. You won't ever see this, so don't worry about it. We just wanted to let you know that there is some basis for how events are judged.

Breeding

When you have a broodmare (M) and want to breed her, you should find a stallion off the stallion book. Make sure you can afford his fee, and then submit that to the breeding board. Most of the time your mare will get in foal, but occasionaly she won't. There are also times when she will miscarry or have a stillborn foal. This being said, foals are born each year sometime between January-March.

The stats of the foal are usually somewhat reflective of their parents, though of course sometimes you will use studs without stats. So, yes, sometimes foals are also random, but we try to follow bloodlines as much as possible

Gelding Information
I'm sure there will come a time when you decide you want to geld a few of your colts. Is this a good idea? Yes, and no.

Gelding a colt is a great way to improve his stats, particularily his courage and consistency. However, you should first seek out an evaluation. Try your colt in a few events that fit the evaluation before you give up and decide to make him a gelding. The problem could simply be that he has been in the wrong events, or against really stiff competition

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