HORSES & THEIR TRAINING

ronin7 (INT1)

Is there anyone who can explain to me what the #s mean ie Jumping 203 Winning 15% ... sometimes the #s are in black and other times are green...what does black/green colouring mean?  ... what do the #s themselves mean?  I'm thinking green is in progress of leveling up to that # and black is when horse has achieved that level...and that at a certain level # the horse value goes up ie 30heart to 31heart.  Am I on the right track?  I'm trying to get my horses to 40+ value so that when breeding I'll get a better horse than just common value...

Uncle John (GB1)

Taken from Larinos Corner

Weighted competition values can be calculated as follows (these formula’s represent the question marks on horses of the competition and are values you need to specialize on a certain discipline. Having an all-round horse is best though):
Racing = base level (increased by training to earn XP in the Riding Arena) + (Endurance x 3) + (Strength x 2) + (Agility x 1) + (Speed x 1)
Show Jumping = base level (increased by training to earn XP in the Show Jumping Course) + (Strength x 3) + (Agility x 2) + (Endurance x 1) + (Jump power x 1)
Dressage = base level (increased by training to earn XP in the Riding Circle) + (Agility x 3) + (Endurance x 2) + (Strength x 1) + (Elegance x 1)

So black, dark green, light green, numbers correspond to x3, x2 and x1 respectively.
Not sure which % you're looking at.

ronin7 (INT1)

thanks UncleJohn...the % is "odds of winning"...beginning to rethink if horse to compete if % is not in its favour; although sometimes horse wins anyway ... much like in real life.
However the rest of your answer is still confusing just as it was when I read it in Larino's posts.  I feel terribly dense because just not getting what suppose to do actually to increase value of horse...of course, will continue to train; and hope for the best ...maybe even the lights will come on and the "aha" moment will arrive sooner than later.  But since I rely on Barnacle for training horseshoes, that moment will arrive much later than I would like...will just have to save up more $s to upgrade lab...sigh...loathe to spend real $s for virtual gold... ...am really sad.

artful (US1)

ronin7 (INT1) said:

thanks UncleJohn...the % is "odds of winning"...beginning to rethink if horse to compete if % is not in its favour; although sometimes horse wins anyway ... much like in real life.
However the rest of your answer is still confusing just as it was when I read it in Larino's posts.  I feel terribly dense because just not getting what suppose to do actually to increase value of horse...of course, will continue to train; and hope for the best ...maybe even the lights will come on and the "aha" moment will arrive sooner than later.  But since I rely on Barnacle for training horseshoes, that moment will arrive much later than I would like...will just have to save up more $s to upgrade lab...sigh...loathe to spend real $s for virtual gold... ...am really sad.

You don't need gold or the lab to get sufficient horseshoes -- do a temp farm and keep the boat filled, win horseshoes in events, etc -- CCs, HWE, etc.  

Uncle John (GB1)

My strategy is - 
First decide what you will specialize in - Jumping, Racing or Dressage - This will direct your choice of effects
(also run each horse through the Village Horse Meadow once aiming to get suitable effects)
Buy 2 Goldies, train  each to 14 in all 3 attributes and then breed them
Repeat and then train the two 14s to 27 or 28 and then breed them (choosing any suitable effects for preference)
Repeat these 2 steps and breed the two 28s and train the foal to 41 or 42
Repeat from the top etc etc etc
Try to keep all 3 Training grounds in use constantly. Set the number of shoes for each session so that the total number of shoes you use in a day = total number of shoes you earn from Barnacle in a day.

When competing choose the lowest level competitor you can but priority is to make sure you use all the fuel you are given. (Losing doesn't cost you anything so compete as much as possible

Hope this helps  :¬)

ronin7 (INT1)

actually UncleJohn it does help...it sure makes more sense than what I've been doing. Really appreciate the help...maybe will finally get somewhere with these horses.  Thanks.

WascallyWabbit (FormerMod)

ronin7 (INT1) said:

Is there anyone who can explain to me what the #s mean ie Jumping 203 Winning 15% ... sometimes the #s are in black and other times are green...what does black/green colouring mean?  ... what do the #s themselves mean?  I'm thinking green is in progress of leveling up to that # and black is when horse has achieved that level...and that at a certain level # the horse value goes up ie 30heart to 31heart.  Am I on the right track?  I'm trying to get my horses to 40+ value so that when breeding I'll get a better horse than just common value...

@ronin7 (INT1) Using this horse as an example:

1. The 3 discipline boxes below the horse, show the breeding level of the horse (70) plus any effects specifically for that discipline - This horse only has an effect for Agility (+3) so the agility box is 73 and the other 2 are just 70.
2. If this horse had no other relevant effects for this type of challenge, you would just add together 3x the dark green box + 2x the light green box + 1x the white box - so, 210+140+73=423 and that total would be in black text.
3. But this horse has a Speed effect of +9 which counts for racing, so that gives you 423+9=432 and that text is green.
4. The "Odds of Winning" % is based on the value of your horse compared to your opponents, but as you say, that is as reliable (or unreliable) as in real life racing.

ronin7 (INT1)

wasscallywabbit...it's coming together a bit at a time...thanks so much...this will save so can refer back...wow...it really does help...again, thanks!!!

IceeMimi (US1)

Someone asked me about zebras. Every time I type zebra into the search it comes up in another language. I have not found any zebras. Can someone give me information or a link for further research please? Thanks in advance for any help in this area.

Artmaker (GB1)

As far as I know, zebras haven't been launched yet.  I know it's been showing up in that useless newspaper they throw up as soon as we log in.  But "new stuff" is announced WAY before it ever rolls out.

(And then don't get too excited.  Everything they roll out here is so buggy and broken it's hardly worth even trying.)  

aaabbb1 (INT1)

IceeMimi (US1) said:

Someone asked me about zebras. Every time I type zebra into the search it comes up in another language. I have not found any zebras. Can someone give me information or a link for further research please? Thanks in advance for any help in this area.

No, there are no zebras in the game and are not planed as far as I know.
The zebras can be found on a newspaper, as @Artmaker (GB1) mentioned, but are there just for decoration.
The newspaper is refering that the runing horse season is Africa themed (and zebras are found in Africa). Nevertheless, horses did not turn into zebras at the begining of the season. So the only real zebra I can find (except for the ones in the newspaper) is on one of the avatars you can win.