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I have sent you a private message. :D

I do agree with confluence re: geld the stallions and average 1:3 ratio of breeding : show horses (my average is closer to 1:5)

On hj2 I started a new account last year and trolled the auctions as many times as I could each week. Open the search and click for auction, and advance sort total points.

Open up each horse starting at the top of the search and put a 2600 bid on it. Skip ones that have higher bids. Work down the list until you run out of money to make bids or the daily show bonus of the auction horse is lower than the horses already in your barns.

Check back later in the day and continue bidding 2600 hbs from wherever you left off as you get outbid in the higher pointed horses. Don’t get into a bidding war.

A good way to tell whether a horse is worth bidding on is to divide the purchase or bid price by the daily bonus amount they bring to your barn to see how long it will take for that horse to pay you back.

I bought a bunch of high pointed 16-18 year olds near the beginning of the month, let them earn me as much as they could and put them back in the auction for the end of the month. Most of the higher pointed horses will make more than the 100hbs it costs to buy and flip them (2600bid - 2500auction bidder min= -100hbs)

After the auction I sorted my barns by total points and tossed all the horses left in my primary barn (the lowest pointed horses in my stables) into the next auction. This way I made space for the next batch of auction horses, made money off the horses being sent to auction and over time the daily show bonus was increasing because I was keeping higher pointed horses and selling the horses I could exchange for higher pointed horses.