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The basic upgrade is definitely a good stepping stone if you plan to get the premium at some point. Stallion papering is probably the most useful feature of having a basic upgrade. It really helps you to see that your lines are improving, even though there is a range out quality for each level.

Both lists are lowest to highest ability.

Stallion papering levels:

Showable Only
C
B
A
*Star

Mare papering levels:

Failed
Yellow
Red
Blue
*Gold

@SandycreekFarm

Ahh okay. So stallions are ABC, mares are blue/red/yellow. I'd seen both but hadn't made the connection.

@Alohomora

I think that's what's keeping me from showing and training my horses. I don't even have that many show ponies but it's so tedious doing them all. So I'm looking forward to that part! :)

(Also, five thousand??)

@Wolf735 sorry, I was failing at arithmetic last night. After my pasture foals were sold back to the game, I am currently sitting at a little over 3500 head. That's a much more reasonable number, right? ; )

RunFarAway is correct in differentiating between mass entering and auto showing. I have most of my barns set up to automatically show my horses, but I usually end up clicking the "enter this barn" button when I'm looking through my barns each week and get impatient.

I know that I have more horses competing directly against each other this way than if I hand showed like RunFarAway does with their top showers. However, once I reached 200+ horses, I felt like hand showing was becoming more of a chore for me than a fun brain challenge.

I play this game to have FUN, so if I discover a particular approach to the game isn't fun for me any more, I stop doing it! That's what drew me to Hunt and Jump over other horse games--I can play however I want to. I'm only competing with myself.