Why aren't my horses placing?

I'm trying to puzzle this one out. I read a strategy once where you enter horses in shows only if they are very close to reaching the next level - otherwise, send them to a riding school. I've been doing that all this week, and two of my ponies that are very close to reaching National 1 have done very poorly in shows. Can anyone help me figure out why?

Time Bomb
Toybox

Help!

I guess it's the luck factor. One horse does great one day and then does terrible the next. I don't know what else to say! *shrugs*

How are you entering them in shows? That can have a lot to do with it!

I handpick shows as close to 5 entries as possible and create shows if there aren't enough to meet that criteria.

You know I've had the same problem. i entered my entire Clyde herd in shows one day and none of them placed. It's like I can't get any of my horses to place:(

I'm trying a new-ish tactic. Entered in 5 shows, closest to only 5 entries I can get, and schooled for 5 hours. Maybe the speedy stat boost from schooling will do something. I'm not exactly hopeful.

I've thought about doing that, i just don't want it to be a waste you know? When i could just keep getting stats from the riding school in place of shows giving me none, but I don't want to just not show my horses.Its frustrating.

Regional 5 horses are the first to start needing 200 points. It basically means it takes longer for horses to win in shows. 

The two horses I listed are now at 1099 and 1095, respectively. National 1 starts at 1100 points :P I don't get it.

Well, Toybox may be struggling because he has over 150 non-specialty stats. He won't be competative, as you can see with his show earnings.

Time Bomb, on the other hand! Time Bomb has decent non-specialty stats for a mixed-gen horse - under 50! I think the struggle with Time Bomb is that R5 is a pretty competitive level for showjumping. Just looking at that level now and almost all the soonest shows (running in 7-8 hours) have over 6/7 entries. The cheapest shows have over 10 entries and 14 hours left Then there's only one set of 10 shows with only one entry and 15 hours left on the clock, but those will easily fill up with my own horses tomorrow morning. So, in all likelihood even if you hand-show to get close to 5 entries, the shows probably fill up by the time they run. If it's any consolation, R5 showjumping has been a ridiculously difficult bracket for my horses to level through too.

Do you set your shows to $20? Shows that are priced around 50 seem to have entries that stay around 5 entries by the time their 24 hour clock run, at least in R5 showjumping.  You may have better luck entering those shows, especially if you have 2 horses in the same level and the $50 has over 15 hours left to run at the time of entry. Something I have been doing too is whenever I have to create shows for my horses to enter, I'll create what I need, enter my horses, then create an additional 10-20 shows. Those last 20 shows are "primed" for me for the next day at the same time. If I price them a bit higher, they usually will only have 3, maybe 4 entries by the next day so I have 1-2 slots I can fit in my horses before the timer runs out. 

Also, with show jumping some of the large showjumping breeders/showers seem to show exclusively by autoshowing "highest entries" and at least one tends to do this later in the evening central time (my time, not their time I don't think). Knowing this has helped me immensely with how I show, so maybe it can help you too.

Huh. That's the method to get the best possible results. Have you checked the results of the shows they're in to see what horses they are losing to?

@Ducky - I tend to aim for the $50-$100 shows based on number of entries and time remaining, and will sometimes create extra (less expensive or moderately less expensive) shows for that purpose. I didn't think about checking non-specialty stats. Whew....competition.

@Kahzie I didn't know I could do that

Edit: Just checked my activity to see what my horses were up to tonight.

This beauty, Lusca, out of my Won If By Sea line, won +9 agility in 10 shows!!

Last edited on 2017-06-19 at 20:49:39 by Ðemure