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When the game was very, very young, there were no tests to help players determine how good a horse would be. At that time high damages were a sign of a horse that wasn't worth much. At least this is what I remember reading when they were discussed during my earliest days of playing.

Since Ammit has created so many helpful tests to help evaluate our horses, damages have become just the random sort of thing that can happen even with real horses. Some horses almost never have damages. Others have one or two hbs of damage every month or so. Some have very expensive accidents on rare occasions. You never know which horses will pop up on the damage reports.

Since Ammit introduced the showing bonus, based on the points awarded for showing, I usually check horses that have 10 or more hajibucks worth of damage on a given day. I compare their total number of points with their total damages and usually find that even when I add up all the damages a horse has collected, the loss is completely overridden by their value to my showing bonus.

Here's a post I made recently about one of my mares that was assessed 21hbs in damages last April, and 28hbs on Jan. 21, for a total of 49hbs. She's still in my stable.

http://hj2.huntandjump.com/forum/discussion/46788/i-think-i-should-rename-her-little-miss-muffet#Item_2

Yep, as Sandycreek said way back in the dark ages the only way to test if a horse was good enough was to breed them.

Damages were introduced to indicate if it was a good horse or not. Some players would breed lines of broncs to see just how bad a horse could get and the horses would earn 100+ In damages at a time. Now a days with the increased testing infractions are mostly a bent bucket or hoof prints on the manicured lawn rather than the horse ran through a few fences or needed emergency surgery.