Salutations!

INTRODUCTION:

I had an account on Howrse back when red stars were rare to see. It's been interesting to see how the game has changed since then.

I will focus on training Lippizan, Camargue, and Shagya Arabian horses in the Western style, specifically reining and western pleasure. I chose the breeds and style because I like the visualization of a lot of pretty grey horses participating in rugged/outdoorsy sports.

GOAL:

My current goal for this game is to produce high-GP stallions for each breed above. I plan to do this with the following steps:
  1. Maximize BLUP in my mares to 100%.
  2. Breed them to high-GP stallions with 100 BLUP in the public coverings.
  3. Reach max GP for my mares in all skills.
  4. Repeat step 2.
  5. Repeat steps 1 - 4 until colts with the following stats are born:



Some general guidelines I want to follow:
  • Breed each mare twice. Once at 100% BLUP, and again at 100% GP (all skills black)
  • Castrate colts that don't meet the stats above.


DETAILS - CHANCE BOREDOM AT YOUR OWN RISK:

Due to my approach, you're going to see a lot of mares and geldings in Elementian Farms. I will occasionally have some unicorns running around if I bought them from the auctions or bred my unicorns using the program above and their offspring are unicorns. The same guidelines will apply to them, because unicorns should be worth more than their horns, in my opinion.

Here's an example of a poorly-bred unicorn: Aristophelle. 

I bought her mother, Claire de Lune, who was pregnant at the time, from auction to satisfy an objective. It's been a trial to increase her BLUP and win competitions because her GP and skills are so low. This is the result of her mom being bred before 100 BLUP and her dad having super low GP. 

Aristophelle will probably be a spinster-aunt to my other horses, because getting her lineage's GP up-to-snuff would be a trial. On the other hand, if you check out her little brother, Argyle, in the tab below, you'll see that he has a 300%+ GP increase from their mom, which is the type of gains I'm going for in each generation. He'll become a gelding, so I guess poor Claire will hound them about grandkids until she's on her deathbed.

Contrarily, I foaled Gossamer, and I'm excited to use her in my Camargue breeding program. Both of her parents are max BLUP, and she turned out great. In fact, she's got the highest GP of all my unicorns. I've got my fingers crossed for an awesome filly or two from her when the time comes.

Some disclaimers:

You might see mares in my farm that have been bred more than twice, or public coverings from my low-GP stallions before I castrate them. 

In the case of the mares, it's because I bought them from other players who bred them before selling them. I will probably breed those mares once, when their GP is maxed out, and then retire them from breeding.

With the stallions-turned-geldings, it's because I'm trying to complete covering objectives. Please ignore my low-GP, low-BLUP covering offers if you see one. There are better stallions for your mare out there...Eventually, I hope to be the breeder-owner of some of them!

Thanks, and enjoy the rest of your day.