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July 1st 2025
Total hbs: 2,705,064
Investment Vouchers: 0
Golden Tokens: 0
Gene Mod Tokens: 69

Total Points: 271,570
Daily Bonus: 29,096 hbs

Primary Barn: 140 Stalls
Additional Barns: 15 stall x 1, 50 stall X 1, 100 stall X 2, 250 stall x 3
-1,015 additional stalls total

Primary Pasture: 60 acres
Additional Pastures: 10 acres x 1


Total Horses Owned: 491 (237 purchased from other players)

BCs Owned: Saddle Seat Horse, Curly Horse, University Mule
Gene Licenses Owned: None

Horses Lost at Rollover: 18


Starting in June
I started this account in June which is a huge advantage when spinning up a new account. In June and December there are Random Acts of Gifting, special herd helpers each day, and create events. All of which I took advantage of to grow this account as quickly as possible. If you are starting an account on a different month the strategies still apply but you will need to wait until June/December to use the strategies specific to those months

At the start I was using RRR as my stable prefix but ended up switching to 3R after about a week.

Pointed Creates
I won’t go in depth about what pointed creates are and the rules about them, see the FAQ for that, but I will talk about my general strategy. My goal was to get to 60k held points and to do so with the smallest number of horses possible. As a new account, space is limited and cash is vital so process was as follows:

1) Create a group of yearlings either until I am out of stall space, or out of cash. Yearlings have more years to live so have higher lifetime payouts.
2) Any horse with less than 200 pointsI put up for sale for roughly their lifetime payout. If a horse had a lifetime payout of less than 3k I just tossed them in the auction. At the start I made a forum post advertising these horses but eventually I found that wasn’t really necessary. I never sold a horse with over 200 points unless it was a valuable rank special.
3) I kept creating horses until I had 60k held points. I made sure to purchase no horses during this time to get the most out of the 60k.

In the end It took roughly 170 creates to hit my 60k.
I sold 49 pointed horses to other players for a total amount of 462,450.
49 horses cost me 122,500 hbs to create, netting me a proffit of 339,950 hbs from pointed horse sale.
All 219 pointed creates cost me 546,500 hbs which means my net cost for creating 60k in points was 84,059 hbs when sales profits is figured in. Not bad!


Buying An Upgrade
As soon as I had 375,000 hbs I invested it right into a basic upgrade. Simply doing the achievement tasks easily covered the cost and the increase in weekly pay, auto training, and more barn space was insanely helpful. I would not recommend playing without it.

Buying Barn Space
Even with the upgrade I would not have the stall space for my 170 pointed creates, and I was going to need a heck of a lot more horses than that. Because of selling pointed creates, a generous RAoG gift from HighstormFarm, and selling rank specials I was able to buy a 250 stall barn pretty quickly for 83 Ivs (1,037,500 hbs).

Getting my first 250 stall barn was huge because it let me fill it with 250 creates a day to auction. It was even easier once I purchased my second 250. In all I was able to afford three 250 stall barns, and I purchased two 100 stall barns and a 50 stall barn, bringing me just up to the 1000 non primary stall threshold before I start having to pay extra tax on purchased stall space. In hindsight I would have purchased a 4th 250 instead of the smaller but they will still come in handy. The 15 stall barn was from an achievement so does not count as part of my 1k stalls.

My next goal is to save up 333 IVs (4,162,500 hbs) to pick up my first 1k stall barn.

RoAG Participation
I was listed in RoAG for a little while there. Thank you so much to HighstormFarm who sent me 500k to get started on barn space, and a ** gold era 15 mare who is the cornerstone of my upcoming high era bootstrap line.

Additional thank you to the following members who sent me *** and ** era 15 straws: Firebrand, deltaghoulette, BlueValley, VenemousGiant, Newamber, ZenCorgi, Minute, DoubleMash2 and ImagineThat1. Having access to strong genetics like that makes a huge difference for a new account.

Selling Rank Specials
Being anniversary month there were ranks specials to create every day. I made sure to log in daily to collect and sell that days rank special. For rank specials that had been seen before I used the Herd Helper Collection page to see the average price then roughly doubled that when I put the horse for sale. I had no issue selling them at these prices and most sold in just a few hours.

For brand new herd helpers I tended to wait a day and see what they had sold for the prior day. Sometimes I would skim through all the horses with that herd helper in the game looking for sold ones to see what prices they were getting. Most new ones I found could be sold for 200 to 300k.

I sold 27 rank special horses for a total of 4,945,000 hbs.
The average sale price was 183,000 hbs
I paid 67,500 for the creates making my net profit of 4,877,500 hbs.

Clearly rank special sales made up the bulk of my income for the month.

Sea Pony Fishing
Since it was June I was able to create 250 horses a day in the hunt for sea ponies.

In total created and auctioned 5340 horses.
I created a total of 103 sea ponies, 1 candy pony and 1 candy sea pony for a total of 105 gmts earned.



Since almost all horses created were auctioned back to the game I paid next to nothing to create all these horses, only time. The lottery paid out massively for me while creating these horses. I averaged roughly 2 to 3 million in lottery earnings every week from sea pony fishing. I won the million hb lottery at least 2 times that I know of.

How did you have 3 BCs at the very beginning of your 'game' if you weren't spending real money?

Oh OK - my account is so old it pre-dates different bone weights entirely. We just had a choice of Warmblood or Sport Pony - and the images were all the same outline. :)

Wow, that's amazing what you got in just one month! Certainly taking advantage of all resources available, but great to see what can be done

August 1st 2025
Total hbs: 801,219
Investment Vouchers: 0
Golden Tokens: 0
Gene Mod Tokens: 109 (won 45 from the lbs)

Total Points: 897,327 (625,757 point increase)
Daily Bonus: 96,142 hbs (tripled from last month)

Primary Barn: 138 Stalls
Additional Barns::
15 stall x 1
50 stall X 1
100 stall X 2
250 stall x 3
1000 stall x 1
-2,015 additional stalls total

Primary Pasture: 60 acres
Additional Pastures: 10 acres x 1

Total Horses Owned: 1066 - An increase of 575 from last month

BCs Owned: Saddle Seat Horse, Curly Horse, University Mule
Gene Licenses Owned: None

Horses Lost at Rollover: 77

Goal Progress:
96,142/1,000,000 hbs per day goal - 9.6% finished
1/10 1000 stall burns - 10% finished
46/2500 14+ PT horses owned 1.8% finished
0/200 breed prestige points 0% finished

July Breeding:
I started creating embryos in July right away on the first. I then hung onto all those embryos until I had mares with 30 day pasture bonus to implant them into. That got me a number of cap quality era 15 fillies that I will be using next season with my 5% boosted stud. (I used 5 of my gmt stash to turn the colts into fillies).

In total I bred 19 foals this season. I kept zero stallions, and 6 fillies, all era 15. My 13 higher era foals I altered to use as show stock.

July Sales
I sold 15 horses this month. A combination of the special herd helper shares and random rank specials I created during the month. This netted me a total of 2,737,627 extra hbs in the budget which I use to purchase my first 1k stall barn.

July Purchases
I purchased 635 horses in total.

-33 where purchased from the lined rescue
-174 where purchased from the foundation rescue
-The entire rest where purchased from other players, mostly the auction house.

I focused my purchases on young high pt horses, and horses with a lot of points regardless of age. The bulk of my purchases where 17+ aged horses. I was able to get most of these senior horses with no one else bidding on them. They also won me a large handful of gmts this month which means these senior horses where an amazing investment.


August Plans
My stallion 3R14 Maximum Flag is now of age so I want to focus on getting show foals from him by breeding him back to his dam. I have a number of low era ** gold mares that will be using outside double boosted over cap straws on. Any of my surrogate mares left over when embryos are done will also see Maximum Flag. I want to start producing the horses that are going to win me breed prestige points in the future.