HGG Community Forums

Pick your 5 favorite mares preferably exceptional producers or exceptionally perfect anything else that is under 300 points sell for half it's lifetime payout. anything over 300 point geld/spay and keep, that will be your the start of your show string. Choose one stallion exceptional stallion with genes you like and geld/sell/auction the others.

You want no more than one breeder per 3 show ponies.

No problem. The herd helper will say if they are experf, (Rank specials are always at least perfect) on horses you've made you can check the herd helper where it says somatic tattoos. The points should show up both on the barn page in the points column and on the horse page where it says 'total points'.

Did you create any of your own horses? or did you only buy them ? Creating horses is really the best way to build your show string; I am going to link a couple of really good guides :
https://www.huntandjump.com/forum/discussion/27151/attn-new-players-want-to-know-how-to-make-money-to-support-your-hj-habit#Item_38
https://www.huntandjump.com/forum/discussion/31645/basic-information-for-new-players#Item_17
https://www.huntandjump.com/forum/discussion/41800/new-member-let-me-give-you-150-000-hbs#Item_208

Welcome to Hunt & Jump! Don't forget to post in your peer group thread, you get a free 15 stall barn and 25k in game money (hbs) if you do! :)

Yes I make about 100-150K an auction doing that, but it's only a stop gap you should build your showstring while you're doing it.

The Foundation Rescue would be a great place to look for show string ponies! Do a horse search for horses for sale, owner ID 13, and advanced sort by All Time Points. They’re all for sale at create cost and, with the advanced sort, will go from most points to least. The highest I can see right now is 332 points but I have found 400 and 500 point horses there. You can also add your own specific filters but I’ll warn you that most of the horses will not be tested beyond Breeding Advice (and some don’t even have that). FR horses are horses that were “saved” from auction for their high level of showing or breeding ability so they’re guaranteed to be of decent quality. Most of the foundations I’ve gotten from there are high pointed with a 9.9 PT, which is the highest a “normal” create can be.

Straight up creating horses will only get you random values unless you use herd helpers like Exceptionally Perfect, Perfect Foundations, Exceptional Show Horses, etc. Foundation Rescue is the same cost but provides much more stability as you know all of the horses available will be of a certain level of quality and ability.

Yeah they will up you daily or you can auction them. They won't be worth as much as 10yo ut they'll still net more than 2500

They’ll get you that daily payout and they usually stay intact through breeding advice so you can get foals out of them too. You’ll have them for a good 4+ in-game years (4 RL months) as horses don’t start having a chance at passing away until they are 17 or older. You can also filter the search by age if you don’t want anything older than 10 years.

Be sure to check the herd helper thread here in the forums too, you can find Rank 5 HHs all the time :)