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Thanks. I am still a bit new to the game and was a bit confused on why some of my horses were getting points and some weren't.

This game is more of a long term strategy game and often you can’t really tell if a horse is going to be good until it has leveled off. (Roughly when their age is the same as their PT)

Yearlings you can’t tell at all because winning or loosing is pretty much a flip of a coin.

For older horses ones ones with low PT will level off earlier and often stick longer in the levels as they work their way up in the show ranks. Earning money as they go.

While higher PT horses often fly through the lower levels and rarely sit at one level long enough to be competitive (looking like they are just costing you money) but they will reach higher levels of showing and if they level off in a sweet spot will make you much more in the long term than a lower pt horse.

When you are first starting out you will want a range of horses so that the lower leveled horses will cover for your higher PT horses until they find their spots. Once your higher leveled horses start earning your keep you can start cutting back on the lower end horses (or keep them and rule the world)

My rule of thumb is if you get rid of a horse the one taking its place should be younger and have close to the same or more points and I rarely even look at my horses before they have leveled off because everyone can have an off day or month but when you look back on their life they may not be as bad as that bad week makes them look.