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2. The Daily Payout process:
-When a horse enters a show, they earn points based on how they place in the class. The higher they place, the more points they get. These points are theirs to keep, and they collect them over time.
-Training increases a horse's show score - how well they do - which moves them up the places in the class, which means they earn more points per show. Improving enough to move to a higher class means that they may be at the bottom of the class for a while again, but until they level off they will keep improving.
-Those points are translated into daily payout. I don't remember the exact calculations, but the more total points all of your horses have, the higher your daily payout will be.
- A horse's estimated lifetime payout is their daily payout multiplied by the number of days between now and the monthly rollover when they age from 17 to 18 and have a chance of aging out. If they're already 18, then it's the days until next rollover, when they have a chance of aging out. Basically, how much they will earn you if they earn no more points and age out at the soonest possible rollover.
- A horse's daily payout only increases, and will keep increasing until they level off, and then it depends on where they level off. The unlucky ones who happen to level off at the bottom of the class they're currently in will not earn many, if any, more points, and their daily payout won't increase. These are the horses that people auction after ten years old, because then you get the entire lifetime payout and open a stall, and you probably wouldn't get much more by holding on to them and collecting their daily payout until they age out. A horse who levels off at the top of the class, however, will keep earning points because they're placing well, and that means their daily payout will continue to increase. You get more from these over time by keeping them and collecting the daily payout than you would by auctioning them.
- A horse with no points (and only creates from new players start out with points, lined foals and creates from everyone else start with no points) will earn points as they go, so yes they're worth keeping (depending on the rest of the factors, obviously). I keep all my snips with a PT score of 11 and above, because they gather points for longer and tend to end up with more. I see plenty of horses start with 0 points as a new foal and end up at over a thousand.