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Points are king. Every week your account gets a showing bonus directly equivalent to 50% of the total number of points held by all the horses currently held by your account. Both numbers (your total points and your weekly bonus from showing) can be found in the Performance Overview section of your Stable Homepage.

Your weekly profits can also be found there, but let me be the first person to assure you that number means virtually nothing. As long as your weekly showing bonus is bigger than your net profits, you've got positive income. Sometimes by a little, sometimes by a lot.

Any horse can accumulate points throughout its entire lifespan. Every time a horse shows, unless it comes in absolutely dead last in its class, it gets at least half a point. As long as the horse shows regularly, it keeps accumulating points, and unless you sell it or until it dies of old age, those points count toward your total accumulated points, which means they add to your weekly showing score.

How do you decide if a horse is earning its keep? A tiny bit of math!

Here's the information from a randomly chosen horse in my show barn. Particularly relevant to this exercise are her TOTAL POINTS (999.5) and her PROFIT totals (-3879). That red number can be pretty intimidating... but is it really something I need to worry about?



She's actually still earning points (not many, but a few) so let's round her total points up to an even 1,000. That means that every week, she adds 500 hbs to my total showing bonus.

If I look at her recent showing record, I can tell she's actually not really an awesome show horse. She comes in last or next to last almost every time she shows, which is part of why she's only earned about 10 points this year.



She actually came in 7th! in her most recent show, barely, probably because of random luck placement. She won a whopping 35 hbs for that, and picked up 2.5 points. Doesn't look very awesome for her, especially since in most of her shows she's not doing anything at all.



But how much is she actually costing me? She's showing at Grand Prix Local, and once upon a time that was a very expensive class to enter. Today? Not so much. Today, it costs me.... 40 hbs to enter her.



If she shows twice a week, every week, she costs me 80 hbs per week. But she's worth 500 hbs per week, even if she comes in last every single time. 500 minus 80 is... 420 hbs. Every week. She's definitely not my top money maker, but she's also not bringing in nothing at all. A totally free account with no shared stables earns, what, 5000 hbs a week? 12 horses just like my example here would bring in 5040 hbs after showing expenses.

When is it worth getting rid of a horse like this? When you can fill that stall with a horse that makes more money. How do you know if the horse is making more money, or has the potential to make more money? Exactly the same steps as above. Remember, though, that it takes a long time for a horse to accumulate even 1,000 points, but they will always have those points and as long as you own the horse, you get paid for them. This is why it can pay to keep as many of your geldings and spayed mares as you can find room for. They don't earn much in the beginning, but over the long haul, that little bit turns into a whole lot.