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Strategic Showing
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Hey All!
I've been wondering what you all do with regards to showing, what are your strategies? I feel like mine is somewhat ham fisted and inelegant and was hoping to get some ideas from you guys :)
Thank you!
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My only strategy was only do a barn at a time. Then go to showing->my show entries and drop out of classes with more than 2 of my horses in the same class. Because if you fill it up with only your horses it's guaranteed one horse will get last.Breeder of any and all crazy colored drafts and RH horses.
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I have a premium upgrade, so all my barns are set to auto show. I have over 1000 show ponies. I fill up my barns with show ponies, set them to auto show and forget about them lol.Thanked by 1ConfluenceFarms
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Hunter that's a brilliant idea. I had been manually entering them but I have too many horses. Maybe your method will work for me.
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Thanks! Now my idea is even easier because of automatic showing. That doesn't enter all of the horses so last couple days of the week I hit "enter into show"
Then to get them into barns I sort them by era (eras show separately) then I go and look at their training level. I don't allow more than two of a certain training level in the same era in a show barn.
The other thing to do is add show horses to the leftover spaces in your herd barns. That breaks up the show horses even more (and no reason not to show all the intact horses too)
Ever since I've started these strategies I think I've been gaining points a lot faster.Breeder of any and all crazy colored drafts and RH horses. -
Sooo when I first joined, even though I upgraded pretty early on and had the ability to set my barns to auto-show, I used to arrange my show barns by sorting horses to spread them out by level. So like if I had three show barns and nine horses of one level, I'd put three in each barn. I would click "Enter This Barn" to enter them all at once, but then I would manually go and remove (scratch) any horses that were in a class with another of my horses, so that each of my horses were in their own class. It became a little obsessive... lol... and very time consuming.
However, as my barns grew and I gained more show horses, this REALLY became completely unreasonable to keep up with. Now I just have everything set to auto-show and basically "set it and forget it". I try to change up/spread out the show days a little bit, but in general I still want my main show herd showing at the beginning of the week. I have a lot of intact horses that show as well.
Every so often I take a look at my older show horses and if they're leveled off and placing at the bottom of their class each time, I put them into a separate barn for "Retired Horses" that has auto-show turned off. That way they're still contributing to my bonus but I'm not wasting entry fees on them. I also stopped showing foals because a) they don't really earn much if they win anyway, and b) whether or not they win is really more up to chance than anything so it just felt like overall more of a net loss to show them. -
With me everything is set on auto show that's it and my show bonus increases 1,000hb every week sometimes more sometimes less but my alters are half my collection so that helps
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Auto-Show is awesome.
Like Hunter, I do try to remember to go through my barns on Friday or Saturday hit "enter this barn" on every barn just to catch anyone who got missed by the auto shower. -
I still have a fairly small show herd, so I try to enter all of mine by hand. I don't want to run my own horses against each other. Sometimes it can be a pain, though...
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Ammit has said in the past that she did a test that proved that it doesn't make any significant difference in your point gains if you fill classes with your own horses, or spread your horses out so you aren't showing against yourself. The horse that comes in last against its barn mates, would most likely come in last against other people's horses as well.I was jllewis on the old forum.
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Oh interesting. But what I like to go and do is auction the ones that are placing near bottom.Breeder of any and all crazy colored drafts and RH horses.
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Oh ok. I didn't know that
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I just hit enter all barns every Sunday, generally twice, so that all my horses have added to their point scores early in the week and I get the benefit of that increased show bonus all week instead of just part of the week.
I don't pay attention at all other than that really. Once in a blue moon I'll check through my levelled off horses to see if any are consistently placing last for the last month or more, and then I mark them as NS for No Show and stop showing them. -
Meh, I don't even check to see who's placing where. I don't care if they're placing in the bottom of the classes, they're still adding to my show bonus. But I have the room to just "set it and forget it", I have horses I haven't looked at in ages. Too time consuming and aggravating to go through 1000+ horses.
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Personally, I am basic upgrade so I have the "Enter This Barn" feature but not the auto show feature. Throughout the beginning of the week I manually go through my horses that I know will place high in their current class and enter them in. The other horses I wait to see if they will drop down a level during the week. For example, if I have a 7N horse that I know will place at the bottom of that class I wait to see if they will drop down to 7R. Once I've weeded out the higher point earning horses I use the "Enter This barn" feature to show the rest of my horses.
Keep in mind I only have about 180 horses so this method works well and is realistic for me.
If you have a smaller sized barn and you are willing to take the time to go through your horses or know which horses you need to enter yourself, it helps a lot. -
Like a few others have said mine are on auto show so I dont pay attention to them lol. I try to go through on saturdays and hit the enter this barn button for each barn to enter the ones that auto show didnt catch (like Cheers had said she does) but sometimes...(a lot of the time) I forget to do that. :))
I also show everyone. Foals - oldies. Altered and intact. Every point matters! But theres really no strategy. I just let them do their thang. -
I "enter all horses" every Sunday. Every once in a blue moon I will sort my horses by points and cull any leveled off horses with poor performace and low points. Never cull a horse who isn't done training. 11 years old is the soonest a horse gets considered for culling. I have tons of horses who were poor performers leveling up, but finished in a great spot and rake in the points now.
It has taken me a full year, but I finally broke 100k daily bonus. I should be able to hit 200k before I start losing horses to aging out. I only started keeping a show string when I came back after my long break.
As far as I know horses never "drop down" a level. They only go up. If you have a horse who places poorly at their level and they are done leveling up, well... they are done. No point in showing them anymore.Thanked by 1supersarah -
Horses do drop down a level if they level out at the top of one class and the bottom of another. They will show a couple times placing last in the higher class, drop down, place at the top of the lower class a few times, jump up, place last a few times, place first a few times. I watched some of my old foundation stallions (who sat in my primary barn so I had to show them by hand and therefore paid a lot of attention) do this before I dispersed my herd. If you have a horse right on the cusp, it's worth it to keep showing them. It's if they're placing last, or second from last or third from last consistently that it make more sense to "retire" them to a barn that doesn't show.