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It is exactly as you say: as you enter entire barns at once the classes get filled up with your own horses. Sometimes when another player has entered their horses there is some room left in the classes for yours to fill them up. But as there are so many horses that need to be shown, new classes get created automatically when another class if full. That's why the class is full with your own horses.

To prevent that it would mean that you'd have to hand enter all your horses, as you can then pick in which competition you want them to compete. However, there are only so many competitions per class, so eventually you'll have to fill them up with your own horses to run the competition or wait for others to enter to fill up the class so the competition can run, but that takes a lot of time.

I also try to be positive about it: I just pay for the maximum amount of points to be given to my horses because I fill up a whole class, even if that means one of my horses is dead last everytime. At least there is no one else to compete against that can 'steal my points'.

Another thing that might help is to spread out the different PT's and ages in your barns. If you have a 30 stall barn and all 30 are the same age and showing at the same level (7W for example) they will all compete against each other. But if you have a 30 stall barn and 10 of them are leveled off 7W showers, 10 of them are leveld off 8W showers and a few are still in training so are at different levels then you do not have enough horses to fill up 1 class of 7W or 8W. There is a bigger chance someone else fills up that class as you move on to the the next barn and show the next set of horses.

But it still will happen that you compete against yourself, as there are waaay more horses than classes (and I guess it would clog up the system if there would be more classes and thus more horses that wait in entered shows untill their shows run).

Thank you both for the input! That makes a lot of sense and I can see the positive side of letting them be entered together. I think I just won't worry about it since it sounds like this happens to everyone!

Thanks again! I'm learning something new all the time :))