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Consistent and Inconsistent

This is a measure of how consistently a horse will perform when shown. A perfectly consistent horse will have exactly the same score both times it is shown in a week. This is a solid, reliable, predictable show horse.

Inconsistent horses will have days where they perform flawlessly and outshine the competition, but on other days their heart won’t be in it, and they will place much lower in the class.

Consistency is mostly applicable to showing results. The only relationship to breeding ability is that inconsistent horses are more likely to have inconsistent foals.

PT and levels


PT mostly indicates how many years a horse will train for. Higher PT means a horse will train longer but not necessarily that it will do any better at the lower levels than any other horse. Horses with a very low PT (4.0 and under) will generally not advance past level 1L before “Levelling Off” and not training further up the levels.

Foals can’t train and there are only two horses in level 1L classes, so winning is totally luck based and has nothing to do with Ability.

As you advance up the levels, the number of horses in a given class and the rewards for doing well in a class will both increase. Most horses will have varied performance as they continue to train and move up the levels. The levels run from 1 to 8, and within each of those levels there are Local, Regional, National and World divisions, so 1L is the lowest level overall, and 8W is the highest level over all. You will run through all 4 divisions at level 1 before you start level 2.

Where your horses really start to earn their stripes is when they level off, and once horses level off some players will evaluate their performance and cull poor performers.

Horses will level off at roughly the age of their PT score number and will basically stop training when they do (they still will add a small fraction of a point to their show score each week, but it’s a negligible gain). Horses that level off at the top of whatever class they are showing in will make lots of hbs and points for you. Horses that level off in last place will not. Horses that level off in the middle of a class will still do nicely for you, but they won’t make the large gains of a horse at the top of their class. Some people will cull horses that level off in last place in their class. Others will stop showing these horses but keep them to keep the show bonus contribution. Some of us never bother to look and keep everything until they age out.

Remember that some of your horses will level off in a local division of their level, but it may be level 6 or 7 or 8L, which has much better rewards and odds than level 1L!

(Thanks to Cheers for this great explanation!)

Auto Training

Auto training can take up to 24 hours to run completely. There are hundreds of thousands of horses that need to be trained.

If you notice that your horses haven't trained yet, please wait 24 hours before reporting the problem.

What are Eras, and how do they work?

People who have been playing longer generally dominate the color breeder leaderboards. It’s pretty difficult for newer players to break into those ranks. Eras were created to level the playing field and give newer players a chance to be competitive on the leaderboards.
A new era will be started after a certain number of new horses have entered the game (via breeding or creation of new horses)
A foals era is ‘inherited’ from the parent with the lowest era.
Eras are only important for the breeders club leaderboards and have no effect what so ever on breeding.

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Leaderboard requirements:

Stallions -10 foals gets the stallion ON the list, and after that the top 25 foals count towards the ranking. So the more foals, the better his chances of moving to a higher ranking.

Mares - 3 foals gets her ON the leaderboard, and the top 10 foals count towards her ranking

A horse needs to have had a foal in the past 2 breeding seasons, aka a living yearling, or a two year old, to qualify.

Daily Herd Helpers (DHH or HH) –
You may not auction your herd helper slot. This takes too long and often leads to lost shares.

You may use your herd helper for another person with the stats of their choice for a previously agreed-upon price. In other words, "custom" herd helpers (as they are referred to on the forums) wherein you post an extra 'share' of your existing herd helper, are allowed.

Please do not take reservations for herd helpers, please stick to only herd helper you have active. Herd helpers scheduled in advance as part of special events are always subject to change.


Other expectations:

Please do not respond on posts that are over 3 months old. Check the date, and start a new thread if you have something to say!


Limit adding ‘me, too’ or ‘ditto’ to a bug report. If you are having a similar problem you can click “Thanks” to let Ammit know that it is happening in more than just one instance.


Please do not change the title of your threads after an auction is over, or a problem is solved, or you found the horse you were looking for. Even if you change your mind and decide not to post; either delete the whole post or add an explanation in the body of the post. It makes the forum really confusing to go through the main list, and there may just be someone else out there who could benefit from your ‘silly’ question! If you want, just add ‘Sold’, or ‘Closed’ after the original title.


Posting Rules. Yes, we do enforce these rules. They are helpfully listed just below the text box where you type your forum message. To review, they are; do not use chat speak, use normal capitalization (not all capital letters, or all lowercase letters), and, one punctuation mark will get the job done.


Simplify Post titles. Remember that you are directing your message to everyone, including new players, who don’t speak the ‘language’ yet! Your title needs to be a brief summary of what is in your post. This also means that you really need to limit the emotional or over dramatic post titles. We get that you might be bummed that your fancy filly was spayed, but your life is not over….trust me.


No begging; for horses, or money, or gifts. This community is amazingly generous, and people will give you things! If people take advantage of this generosity it won’t be much fun, and people will stop helping. We never want it to get to that point, so we do step in, if a post looks like begging. This includes excessive whining or bemoaning the fact that you don’t have enough money, or stalls, or “all I need is one tiny little GMT token” to finish your new stallion, or “if only I had a bigger pasture for all these mares”. If you are mentioning the problem as part of a conversation, that is fine, just be aware of how it might sound.


We also do not tolerate drama. We encourage you to try everything you can to resolve the problem on your own, but if you have a dispute that does not seem to want to go away, please bring it to the attention of someone on the admin team.


If something does go wrong, remember to be polite. Sarcasm, angry posts, or accusations will just make things worse. Take the time to calm down and think of the best way to address the issue. We will help if you ask.


Honesty is the best policy. If you made a mistake, just tell us. Everyone here has messed up, many of us more than once! We will do what we can to help you out, but if you are not willing to admit to a mistake, things can get very frustrating for everyone.


Some players like to run forum games and contests. It is lots of fun, and we encourage it. No ‘pay to play’ games or raffles, are allowed, though. Games can only be free to enter. Keep everything above board, and things will remain fun!


REALLY long signatures make posts hard to read. You should keep it to one or two lines of text and a small picture. You do not need to list all the licenses you have, or all the colors you breed. Keep it succinct; your stable ID number and a few words about your barns will get the job done.


These are all things that are, in the end, basic courtesy. Lots of people don’t realize that what they are doing (or not doing) may be causing a problem, that’s why we wanted to share these “Unwritten rules”.
Remember that this is a GAME. If you are not having fun, something is wrong! Enjoy it!

Lallyhop ID#45703 (Talented Tutor - Forest Server)
What are paper levels?


A, B, C, Blue, Red, Yellow, Gold, Star... what do they mean? Papers, obtained by using the breeding inspection test on a horse, available to basic and premium upgrades, are a measure of the quality of a horse's breeding ability.

Colors are for mares, and letters are for studs. In order, from worst to best, they go as follows:

Stallions: Showable Only, C, B, A, *Star

Mares: Failed, Yellow, Red, Blue, *Gold

Gold and Star is the best papering you can get.

Breeding ability refers to a hidden number that the game uses to determine how "good" a horse is and by extension, how good of foals they will produce, on average. While these numbers are hidden from view, we do have an idea of what they are due to experimentation with foundations.

A "perfect foundation" is a horse with 100% breeding ability. An "exceptionally perfect" horse or "exceptional producing" horse has 105% breeding ability.

A perfect foundation will be papered C (stud) or yellow (mare). An exceptionally perfect breeder will paper B/red.

Now, by using 1% and 5% boosts, we can more accurately measure what percentages correspond to papers. If you take a perfect foundation (100%) and give it a single 1% boost, the papering goes to B/red. This means that the beginning of the B/red range starts at 101%. If you take a 105% exceptional foundation, and boost it a full 5%, it will become A/blue. (this is the only way to get a/blue foundations).

So now we know that C/yellow ends at 100%, B/red goes from 101% up to 109%, and at 110% you get to A/blue! Showable Only/Failed papers sit below C/yellow, and Star/Gold are above A/blue.

So what does that mean for me? It means that papers can be a useful way to tell if a horse is a good addition to your breeding herd. If you make sure papers only match or go up, instead of going down, you can make sure that your herd is improving! And you can even use them to be more strict - so instead of allowing a red filly out of B/red parents to stay because she passed BA, you can be extra strict and only let A/blue foals stay. You can quickly get star/gold in only a few generations that way. Now you can go out there and breed good quality horses!

A big thank you to Lallyhop for this explanation!

Danaerys - ID# 51665 (Talented Tutor - Forest server)

Searching For Horses and Users in Hunt and Jump

Two of the most useful features of the Hunt and Jump game are Search Horses and Search Users pages. Find these on the right column of the game page, under the Community header with the 3 people icon.

The search page opens to Key Filters, which lets you choose by name, sale, auction, breeding, age, gender, height, bone and breeding status. You can filter the results to include or exclude fantasy horses and horses your game allows you to buy. You can specify horses by color, owner, breeder, Sire, Dam, Tattoo, Barn, Pasture and Breeders Club. Then, you can sort horses by all the fields under the Basic and Advanced Sort. I’ll not list those here; there’s a bunch! All of them are useful depending on what you want to do.

The second page of search lets you choose among the Pigment Modifiers, such as cream, the duns, gray, flaxen, sooty, silver, etc. to be included or excluded from your search. The third search page, White Markings, includes the variety of Kit Genes, splash, appaloosas, snowflake, frame, galustra and the level of white factor. The fourth search page includes the Fantasy Genes.

You can search your entire farm by hitting the View in Search link at the top of any barn or pasture page and scrolling down to delete the number of the barn or pasture ID#. This is super handy to search among your own horses, even when they are not in the same barn.

On auction days, you can fill in all the search pages with what you are looking for. When you're done at the auction, you can carefully go back to the Key Filters page and click For Sale instead of For Auction, and you won’t have to re-enter all the search details to see what other farms have for sale. They might have what you didn't find in the auction!

Sometimes you hit search and it runs and runs and runs. It feels like something is broken. It’s not. That happens when you forget to specify a limited field, and the search is running through the entire server. That is a lot of horses, so it takes a few minutes. I try not to do that.

Search User, located under the same menu, is nice to use when people buy my horses on the sale list or at the auction. It is really fun to see when a horse from my farm is chosen for a breeding program where they are a good fit. To find your horse if the new owner has changed their name, enter the buyer's ID# in the Owner field, and your own ID# in the Breeder field.

Search can be especially useful if you want to see what a certain genetic combination looks like in the wild. Plug in the genetics you want to see, hit the button, and if it's on the server, it will pop up. You can scroll through pedigrees of champion horses and look for ideas and inspiration. Perusing pedigrees is a good idea when you are looking at potential breeding stock, too, whether you are breeding or buying.

Visit farms you like and do a search for horses for sale or auction. If you are looking for a specific bloodline, dam, or sire, those can be filled on the search, hit the Search Horses button and there they are! Looking around the farms with top awards on the leaderboards can give you new ideas for your farm, too. How do other stables organize their barns and pastures? Can you tell what genetics they are breeding for? How long have they been playing the game? Almost everyone else has been here longer than I have, so I can learn a lot from more experienced players.

Thanks to Danaerys for this great explanation!