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One important thing to note when you are training your horses is whether they are hunters or jumpers. If you're training manually, you must select the correct discipline from the drop down box (H or J). You can change a horse's discipline at any time, but it is best to do that only when they are just getting started. If you have a hunter who has been training for a number of weeks as a hunter, and you train it as a jumper, it starts its training/showing points all over and loses all the points gained as a hunter. One week's wrong training won't do a lot of damage, but if you switch it permanently or train it in the wrong discipline frequently, it will be showing at a handicap.

Level 3 memberships and up have automatic training and you won't have to worry about this. However, you'll have to be careful not to hit the "Make Hunter" or "Make Jumper" links on the control panel by mistake, because that is the way to change a horse's discipline.