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wow when did you get to have that much show bonus? I have a ton of horses I don't get why my bonus is so so low. maybe because I started a month ago could that be why?

I think it costs me about 50k per week to show all my ponies. But then the show winnings usually cover that. I have over 1000 horses now, which I've slowly been collecting over the last 12 months.

Stick with it and you'll get there. Save as many hbs as you can and buy barns with IVs. I think some players even have a daily show bonus close to 1 million.

I'm earning 14k a day at the moment from show bonus alone. Rarely sell my horses, and most foals born are from pasture. I spend about 30k a week showing and get about 27-29k back from show earnings. I only get a short fall of just a few grand for the one day I show and then get a profit of about 95k a week.

I had a little look through your stable and your bonus is probably small since you have a lot of low earners. There was only a handful I could see with over 600pts. You have a lot of horses, but not a whole lot bringing in the moolah. It looks like you have some nice breeding quality and colours but not as many who have showing potential as well.

cheers hasn't logged into the game since feb 5th

Also look on tr auction. Do a search for auction horses and go down in advanced search and hit all time points and then search. I have found 3 of my last show horses there. All with over 200 pts. Look at their ages though. Try to find one less than 14 years old.

I've been playing for a little over a year and my show bonus is almost 40k a day. It takes time for your horses to build up points. And you need lots of them lol. The more horses gaining points the more your show bonus is.

Oh so very true.

Well I've put a ton into this game but am hardly getting anything back I've put in 1000$ in a month and am only getting back 1400hb in showing and I pay more then I get back

Oh ok I get it now thanks for setting me straight I'm new to the game and am not sure how things work yet I've been building my show string more over the past week and will continue to do so I have a lot of good quality gelding and spayed mares so they will make good money for me someday

You also need to keep in mind that real life money does not always transfer well into the game. You can spend a ton of real life money and not get much back out of it. You should never expect that jist because you've spent X amount of dollars on a game that it will automatically put you ahead. :)

And wow Sandy creek sounds like you are doing awesome in the game that's really great good for you. You must be rich in the game lol :)

My suggestion if you want to spend real life money on the game to help give you a boost is to spend it on some extra barns and then fill those barns with show ponies. Whether you breed the show ponies yourself or buy them to fill the barn. (I like Kassie's suggestion about using money to buy the pastures as well and then use that to springboard you to buying a few barns)

It may seem frustrating to spend all of that money at first because you won't get a huge jump to your show bonus right away, most of your show ponies will probably be young without a ton of points. But give it a few months and you will see a boost in your show bonus once those ponies grow up and start raking in big points each week. Once your show bonus gets large enough you will find that you have plenty of HBs (or real life money if you want to spend it) to buy more fun things like pretty colored ponies, limited edition genes, tack packs, GMTs, etc.

Ok thank you for the advise ill get more money and buy a bunch of show ponies and geld and spay some horses I'm not using :)

I also recommend that you save everything lol

I usually keep fairly inhouse other than using straws received as SS presents (keeping breeding costs down). I keep all of my horses I breed until I run out of room then I cull the horses with the lowest overall points earned per age group starting with the oldest and working down (I also only look at the horses who are older than their PT as they are mostly levelled off) Currently my barns are fairly empty as I bought a few more barns to be able to sort my breeders by generation and a 1000stall barn for my show horses (which I just filled thanks to the new papering) and I haven’t been breeding as consistently as I could be.

Next show all the things all the time!

By keeping everything for so long and showing everything twice a week my 1,271 horses (140 of which I bred today so are therefore not being productive yet) have the following stats from the last week. The difference between show entries and show pay outs varied from -38 to +544 and over the week they only made 1537hbs from shows pretty much chump change and I could breed more horse from it BUT my real money is coming from the showing bonus.

In the same week my 1,131 horses that only made 1,537hbs showing also brought in 221,751hbs in showing bonuses

36670 Showing Bonus 27/02/2017 3:00
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