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The best advice for beginning will be found by following the link at the top of your stable home page that reads "Guide for New Members."

After that, I suggest starting your herd with horses from Foundation Rescue. You will find them by entering 13 in the Owner box on the Search Horses page. All of these horses will be perfect foundations, which means that they will be 100% breeders, 100% showers, (the best at both those things that normal creates can be) and perfectly consistent, meaning that they will score the same every time they show during a given week. There are a lot of results there, but you can find nice young horses by jumping closer to the end of the list (enter a relatively high number into the jump to page box).

If you plan on selling horses, try breeding even generations--foundation to foundation, 2nd gen to 2nd gen, 3rd gen to 3rd gen, for example. This will improve your odds of getting sound stock that will improve through the generations with careful breeding. Many experienced players do not buy horses with uneven generations.

Welcome to the game. It's complex and full of life-like randomness that is built in to the background planning, but this all makes the game fascinating and keeps people playing for years.