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You just gotta be patient. I have been playing since 2013, and my showing bonus is keeping me in GMTs :) BUT I have more than 10 times as many show horses as I have breeders. 16754 horses in total, and 1456 of them are intact. My show herd is also in every age group, and have been showed 2 times every week of their life.

@Maribo Thank you! I've been slowly building my show herd, I keep high PT foals and buy good show horses and show and train them every week as much as possible. Any other tips for building a better show herd?

@Johara I definitely wish I could do that but spending real money is unfortunately a no-go as of right now (i was hoping to be able to buy water color but then college tuition time came and we all know thats expensive haha :)) )
I do happen to get luck every once in a while and win a lottery, maybe I'll do that more. I have enough money to do create sprees, especially when I can enter them right back in the auction

@Bandit1119 I have a decent mix of both, should I keep more lower PT and less higher PT? I honestly didn't know thats how it worked! You learn something everyday!

Every season I do an egg auction and auction off an egg from my most modded mares.. that money either goes to flushing a mare or GMTs.. since I'll be going back to work soon, I'd rather spend the $5.50 on a GMT than to use hbs

@kgstable My best advice is to keep aaalllll the show ponies. Remember, high PT show ponies are good... when they are older. In their younger years they rarely stay at the same level for long enough to get good points. You need show ponies of all PTs and all ages. Also, remember that they stack up the most points after they are leveled off, and IF they level off in a good place.

@Maribo @Bambi2017 and @Peachtree thank you all so much! I'm getting lots of good information I'll be putting into use asap!

@White Valley Thank you so much I can't express how grateful I am! :O :)

This community is so awesome! I love how helpful everyone is. @kgstable, the best candidate for watercolors I think would be bays or browns. Their colors are amazing and when you reroll them there are so many variations!

@Herzeloyde I appreciate it so much! Thank you!

@Bandit1119 Thats impressive! From now on I'm going to be saving way more of my own for my lines! And I'll be trying to get some barns too!

Sometimes the inconsistent ones show better than the consistent. It just means they won't be a steady climb to the top, not that they're not any good.

Inconsistent spelds are just fine; but if you start a bootstrap line you may want to avoid inconsistent intacts. Consistency affects the PT, and it is heritable; so if you use inconsistent horses to produce show ponies the average PT will be lower.

It used to be that if a consistent horse and an inconsistent horse were tied with points in a show the inconsistent horse would have an advantage over the consistent one and place higher but that was in the old show system so I’m not sure if that was still the case after the current show system was implemented.

Personally I geld them and forget them, just make sure you show as many horses as you can/ have twice each week to continue to earn a higher daily show bonus.

I have been playing since 2006 so I have had a long time to collect horses. But really if you want spending money for anything invest in the biggest barn you can and fill it with show horses. It will take a bit (of time and money) but then in the end they will pay you back.

One strategy that worked well on hj2 for me was to do what I called a show horse exchange. I got the biggest extra barn I could and went to the search and sorted the auction horses by total points and starting at the top I worked through and put a 2,600hbs bid on every horse I could until I ran out of money to bid. If I had time later in the day I’d start where I left off and continue on placing bids. (I only bid 2,600. Passed any horse with higher bids because they will take longer to pay the initial purchase price back and start earning you money) it was also before the auction started paying out lifetime points so I would maybe limit the search to under 10 year olds. Then after the auction I would sort my horses I won by total points and move the highest pointed horses into the extra barn. Whatever didn’t fit in that barn got sent to the next auction. Then I’d do it again, bid on all the cheapest highest pointed horses in the auction. After sort all my show horses by points (including the show barn full) move them around so the highest pointed horses are in the extra barn and whatever is in the primary barn gets reauctioned.

This increased my daily show bonus without increasing the # of show horses I was keeping eventually I saved and bought a second barn for the show horses and filled it with the overflow from the first. If you only bid 2,600 hbs that horse only needs to earn 100 hbs on top of the 2,500 hbs it’s guaranteed to get when you send it back to the auction to break even. I try to keep to bidding on horses that will earn at least 100 hbs within a month (have at least 31 points)

I also bought a lot of 17-19 year olds from upgraded players that may have low points from being in a pasture all it’s life and hadn’t been shown much recently and thrown in the auction. I’d show them (which often increased their points significantly) then toss them back into the last auction of the month. Most earned back more than 100 hbs in that short time.

Since the change though I would look into investing in an extra barn and buy up all the 9year olds you can afford from the auction that have big lifetime points and send them back to the auction the next month for the higher auction pay out.