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Can a free member account test for that?

Here is a link to a good discussion about levelling off: http://hj2.huntandjump.com/forum/discussion/comment/15178#Comment_15178

Free members can test for it, I think. PT= performance test. Your mare should gain well until she reaches 9 or 10 (ish) years old, then she will still gain, just not as quickly. I don't even fuss with my show horses. I put them in a barn and let them show til they age out of the game (aka die!)

Free members cannot PT test

One way to estimate their PT is if it appears that their show scores increase by about 3 points each week. Inconsistency may affect that, but if you are able to consistency test your horses, you will find that it is easier to estimate score increases.

If you right down the scores when the horse is just born or just created and keep a record for several weeks, you can do this fairly well.

Example:

A foundation horse starts out in level 1R after its first training.
The first show it scores 4; the second show it scores 6.
It is trained again the next week and levels up to 1N.
The first show it scores 7; the second show it scores 8.
It is trained again the next week and levels up to 2L.
The first show it scores 12; the second show it scores 10.

Based on this you can estimate that it's base score the first week was 5; the second week the base score was 8; the third week, the base score was 11. The horse is gaining 3 points per week and has a consistency of +/- 1. The horse probably has a PT score of 9.6 to 9.9.

The shift from Level 1 to Level 2 occurs when the base score is 10 or 11, depending on the horse, and 10 is usually more likely than 11 as the shifting point.

This example is based on my experience showing and keeping paper levels back in 2011 when knowing when a horse was likely to come in at the top half of its classes was very important, if not essential, to keep your stable afloat financially. When Ammit gave us the Showing Bonus system for showing income and released us from being tied to showing profit, which is based on the difference between the cash payout from placing in a show minus the cost to enter the horse. Only horses that placed in the top half of the class made a profit.

Any, after that digression, what I started out to explain is that it's been probably 4 years, at least, since I have done this, because I fairly soon reached the point when I had too many horses to have enough time to keep manual records on all of them, and I switched, with great relief, to what is now the Premium Upgrade so that I could have the auto-showing feature. I may have some of the exact specifics of the switch from one Grade to the next in Level 1 a bit off, since all four Grades cover only 10 points. But the principle stands.

Ok that does help. I have been keeping a record on each horse but was having a hard time figuring it out. This helps a lot. Thank you all.