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Quick Breeding Overview:

Your horses will have their babies almost immediately, if you are breeding them by hand. Mares have to be 4 years old and stallions 3 before they can be bred, and horses over 19 can no longer be used for breeding, although they can continue showing. Assign a breeding fee to either the stallion or the mare in the space provided on the Control Panel tab, click on the "Breed to this horse button" on the primary tab, select the mate you desire from the drop down box of your breedable horses of the opposite gender, give the foal a name and click the button to do the breeding.

If you have horses in your pasture, they will be bred automatically sometime around the middle of the month, or you can press the breed all pastures button at any time during active breeding season. Once again, the foals should appear almost immediately, and you should get an email message telling you which is the best one of your new pasture foals. You must open each foal's page in order to trigger the image for it to be generated. You must remove all foals you want to keep from the pasture before the 28th of the month before the end of the breeding season so that they will not be automatically sold to Fujiyama Yum Yum Company for 1000 hbs. Once again the pasture horses have to be of an appropriate breeding age.

If you are breeding by hand and no foal image appears, it might be that you have chosen a name that has already been used or no image got generated. Check the contents of your primary barn to see if the foal appears there with the name you assigned at the breeding. If it is, you can open its page, go to the Control Panel and reroll the image so that you get a picture. If it isn't in the primary barn, then do the breeding again, using a different name.

You have to have enough money in your bank account to cover the fees. For hand breeding, there is the fee for the stud/brood fee for the stallion or mare, plus 1000 hbs vet fee. For pasture horses, there is a 500 hb fee per breeding.

Ways to earn money:

You earn money in this game by receiving a weekly salary at roll-over between Saturday and Sunday each week.

You also can make money by entering your horses in shows twice a week. Make sure that you train them every week (you can do this once per week) as well, so that their potential score in their shows will increase. Entry fees are fairly low and increase as the Level and Grade increase. See the chart under "My Show Entries" for the list of levels and grades with the entry fees and maximum horses per class. You will also receive prize money for showing, but only the horses in the top half of the class make more money in prizes than the entry fee for the class.

For each class, the horses entered will receive a number of points determined by their placing in the class and the total number of horses entered. Only the horse that comes in last gains no points. At the weekly roll-over you will receive a showing bonus based on the total number of these show points that your horses have gathered. At present the rate is 50% of the total points, so that if your horses have accumulated 500 points, you will receive a showing bonus of 250 hbs. As you can see, the more horses you have and the more you show them, the more points they will gain, and the higher your showing bonus will be.

You can also make some money by putting your horses up for public stud or brood and charging for that service, but you don't get the foal for those breedings, the other player does. You also have to be offering a mare or stallion that has traits that people are looking for.

You can also sell horses, but that's not the best way to try making money because unless you have something very special and in demand, you won't be able to charge enormous amounts for them, since everybody in the game is creating and breeding their own horses.