Backgrounds!

Just curious, has anyone gotten the beach background and/or the winner's circle one?

I haven't yet, and I was hoping to see some of your horses with them! Mind showing off?

Where can we get them ? xD

They both come from random events and aren't purchasable - the beach one comes from leisure riding at the beach location, and the winner's circle one comes from having a horse place first in a show. I haven't managed to get either yet though, I just know about them. cx

I haven't yet, but since adding the winner's circle my horses won only 20 1st places. :/

Question to people who might found them, did you get any notification about it or it just apppeared in your inventory or did anything happen?

^{Haven't found anything yet despite making a conscious effort to use the leisure riding as much as I can. Not sure on the probability of the background but it's seeming a lot like the very rare credit that used to be obtainable in riding (not sure if it still is). I'd hope winners circle would have an extra notification, maybe with flavour text on log in maybe, like "x won first place and this picture appeared in the equiverse times!" or something silly like that.} 

I'm starting to give up on finding the beach haha. I was riding every 15 minutes every day and I've been doing it since the background was announced. Very tricky to find indeed.

I'm also curious as to what happens when/if you get the winner's circle background. It'd be cool to have a fun notification like Maple mentioned.

No luck here either... though I did just get peppermints from leisure riding for the first time in ages.

Since the "Winner's Circle" was released my horses have placed first over 1,000 times and still no background...very elusive indeed.

Nope, non yet :(

^{Either it's super rare or it's bugged.} 

@Jester, " This background has a 10% chance of dropping if your horse wins 1st place in a show!", so you are very unlucky (with so many 1st places it's not likely) or this background is bugged like @ maplɛ suggests. I haven't found it yet and haven't even heard about someone finding it. I think it's a bug, because while I can understand that beach background has to be exclusive and has low finding chance set, the Winner's Circle with relatively high dropping chance should have been already found by someone.

I was assuming it was a bug...but have been rather unlucky before. haha

With all the 1st places x3 accounts I have not found it yet either

So, there must be a bug then. 
I get minimum 40 1st places a day with the number of horses I show, and not once have I gotten a background with it. Clearly I am not the only one, and as far as we know no one has gotten the background.

I found the beach background. This is the girl I took in and now she has it SoulDancer