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Welcome to Hunt and Jump, FieryDreams.

To answer your question about horse breeds. No, none of our horses are ever from real-life breeds. You can certainly breed draft horses that have the colors and patterns of real breeds, though their feathers won't be as luxuriant as those on Gypsy horses and Clydesdales. The breeds in this game are all specific to horses bred by players with an upgrade who have chosen a fantasy breed name for all their horses, whether drafts, warmbloods or light horses.

In my case, since my stable name is SandyCreekAcres in HaJ 1 and Sandycreekfarm here in HaJ2, I decided to choose a breed name based on Sandy Creek for both of them. I was a Latin major in college and also studied French for 3 years in high school, so it was natural for me to think of using a language other than English for my breed name. I looked up the words sandy and creek in many languages, using one of the online translation sites, then chose the ones I could combine into something unique yet fairly easy to pronounce. In HaJ1, I breed Bachsandigan horses of all kinds, from the German for creek--Bach--and sandy--sandig. In this game I changed to Norwegian and got Sandbuktian.

Your horses will stay in the National Stud Farm until you upgrade and create a breed name. I think there is, or was, a step in creating an account for choosing a location for your stable--Tonga was one of them, I forget the others. If you didn't have that option, or didn't select one, then National Stud Farm is the default. At least I think that's how it goes. I've been playing since 2011. It's a long time since I signed up. All new players are located at the National Stud Farm.

Horses age up when the game year progresses, on the first of every month, so your horses will age up 1 year on Feb. 1. If you create 2 year olds, yes, they will have longer to train before they level off and no longer add significant amounts to their show scores with training. If you want to have breedable horses and don't mind losing a year or two of training, create 3 year old colts and 4 year old mares, then they can be bred immediately, unless breeding for the current game year is over. The breeding season ends at the roll-over between the 27th and 28th of the month. It opens again in the next month--new game year--on the 2nd for players with upgrades and on the 3rd for players with free accounts.

The best financial strategy is to have many more neutered show horses than breeding stock, although it is also good to show your intact horses as well. Except for the one that comes in last, all the horses in a show are awarded a certain number of points based on where they placed and the number of horses in the show. These points remain in their permanent record and are used to compute the daily showing bonus. Creating your horses younger is good strategy for maximizing their potential income, but you may find it helpful to look for horses with high point counts to give you a boost to your showing bonus right away. You might search for the tattoo "available to adopt." And, if you'd like, I could search my stable for a couple of high point show horses to sell you.


Your colt sounds like he'll be good looking when he sheds out in the spring. I don't own any horses of my own, but work with a therapeutic riding program which helps me get a good horse fix from spring into autumn.