Showing vs riding school

Can someone explain the pros/cons of showing vs riding school?

My Guide to sucessfull showing found over in the guides fourms goes a bit more in depth, but here's aquick breakdown of the benefits of showing and riding schools from that guide after a quick note about stat gain.

For stat gainthe show must have 5 entries and the horse must place in the top 3 to have a chance at stats. You can earn up to 30 stats a day with showing if you hit the max on every show, but you also then have days where you earn none. Riding school usually garuntees 3-4 stats a day if you use all 10 hours. In theory a combination of shows and schooling will raise stats fastest, but there's so many ways to do it and so many variables it's hard to tell for sure.

The Benefits
Here’s where we get down and dirty and give you two ways out of your horsey debt. One, the easy way, is Riding Schools where you get a standard rate of money and experience along with a chance at items
and stats for your horse for no additional cost. Two, the risky way, is Showing where you get experience and points and a chance at additional experience and points, along with money and stats for a cost.

Riding Schools
per hour
Experience: 10-27
Points: none
Money: $15-$33*
Stats: 0-1
Items: 0-1
*minus 10% fee
Minimum earnings: $149 per day
Maximum earnings: $297 per day

Showing
per show
Experience: 10-100+*
Points: 0-100+*
Money: $0-$200+*
Stats: 0-3
Items: none
*uncapped because many variables for maximums!
Minimum earnings: $0 per day
Maximum earnings: $2000+ per day

As you can see, both methods will cover basic horse care easily Riding Schools will give you a guaranteed small portion of extra money per day while shows will give you a chance at loads more money or to lose a lot, which is why a lot of people have chosen to only use riding schools. However I believe that with a bit more planning and some strategy anyone can learn to show their horses successfully. (or you can break the mold and be just as successful using both methods interchangeably or together)

Hopefully that helps at least a bit? I could probably go on, but my linch break is almost up xD

Ohhh thank you Sab! ❤️❤️

Last edited on 2017-11-14 at 14:25:47 by dani.xo