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I'm a huge dorky newb at showing, what makes a good show horse these days? I'm in the middle of culling and I'm getting rid of low PTs and inconsistence, is there anything else to watch out for?

How is the new system working for people? I have not benefited per se, going from a profit of 200K to a bonus of 100K and a profit of -685 to +1000. Anyone seeing a similar trend, or are most people making more money as predicted?

I would say that I'm doing better. Remember that towards the end, the profit computation had a bug in it and it wasn't subtracting the class fees, at least, so the apparent profit was way too high. At that point, my profits appeared to be over 200K steadily and occasionally breached the 300K mark. Now, my profits are, of course much diminished, reflecting the lowered payouts. However, my point level is high enough that my bonus is steadily above 200K.

Previously, I was always excited when my profits got above 100K and really excited on the rare weeks when they approached 200K. However, there were usually weeks when the luck ran against me, and the profits dropped down below 50K. So yes, I think this new system is going to work for me.

My previous profit was usually between 200 and 300 k. My current bonus is 703,149 hbs, and it is going up all the time.

A search for all my horses gives 1798 as the total number. That includes pasture horses and yearlings. I've been playing since mid-January 2011.

I have, right now, 397,410 points. My most valuable horse is a 16 year old spayed mare who currently has 3162 points. As she is currently placing in the upper echelon of level 7W, she will continue to gain somewhere between 22 and 32 points most weeks unless she levels up after a long, long spell in 7W, and has to merely rest on her laurels. :) She placed 10th in points for lined horses in the Champagne Breeders Club last year. All of this in spite of the facts that her PT is only 10.4 and she is inconsistent.

Horses 2-22 on the lifetime profits search all have over 1000 points.

I have 4384 horses, I'm getting over 500k for a weekly bonus now which is getting up near what I used to average before. Probably because I'm showing more horses now. I just looked, my best is about 3300 points, and he is a stallion too. Wonder if he would have more or less as a gelding? http://www.huntandjump.com/horse.php?horseid=1839314

My best showing boy is a gelding who has 4481 points :)

I just looked up my best points winner, a gelding i picked up in the auction for 2700hb's! There are bargains out there to be had! http://www.huntandjump.com/horse.php?horseid=1792820
I still wish i hadn't entered into the massive cull we had with such gusto, it going to take a long time, if ever for me to get even close to where i was with earnings.

No one had any idea this change would happen at that time. Neither did I. Don't forget people got a lot of money for doing that cull. Probably more then those old horses would have earned you each week anyways.

Noooooo! Have no regrets over culling with the Great Purge of 2013!

Obviously the new strategy for making money is exactly the same as the old strategy for making money: you need more horses!

I think that when Ammit said that she was referring to the fact that all horses in auto-show barns are now being entered twice a week regardless of what their base scores are. This means that some classes will be filled with horses that have lower than top-of-the-level scores and so some of them will have chances to place well.

I have observed, both in H&J 1 and in H&J 2 that my profits remain negative under this regime (but not nearly so drastically as they would have before the reduction in entry fees and payouts), but my weekly showing bonus continues to rise because my number of points continues to rise. The only horse in a class that doesn't gain some points is the one that places last, so even horses that end up in the lower half of large classes can contribute positively to stable income.

In my H&J 2 stable, which is much smaller and younger than the one here, my showing bonus increased from 25hb more than the showing deficit to over 1000hb more than the deficit in one week and is continuing to rise. This is a very encouraging sign, and helpful to me because I hadn't been showing there at all for lack of time and energy.

Stick them in a no show barn or in a pasture.

You really should not end up with to many you don't want to show. Class results should be much more open and varied now you should not end up with horses that always finish last nearly so much.

No pastures need to be for breeding only to keep the code manageable, but it is cheaper just to buy a barn. Pastures cost more then barns do.