*Horse Team Shows

Hi all! 

I was wondering if horse "team" showing has been suggested before? I took a quick look through the suggestion boards and couldn't find anything...

I was basically thinking along the lines of a 4, 6, or 12 Horse Hitch (I see them at county fairs sometimes, and I'm always blown away).

I was thinking the mechanics would work something like ex. for a 4 horse-hitch: register a team of 4 Gypsy Vanners, then that team is judged by their collective stats(/conformation as well maybe).

Some other features I thought might be fun (but could be added separately) are:
-> if the horse accumulated "teamwork points" every time they showed as a team, so how good the individual horses were at working together could also be incorporated into the judging.
-> if the horses could be judged on how similar they look (i.e. normally when you see teams, they are all the same colour/breed to present a united front, though this would probably be the most difficult to code).

Anyways, I totally understand that this would take a lot of time to implement and there are other feature currently in development, but I just wanted to throw it out there as an idea for the (possibly distant) future!

What do you guys think?

Last edited on 2017-12-05 at 10:52:35 by River

^{Team events have been suggested here already. I like the idea personally (maybe not so much it being judged on conformation unless it's an average of all teams, especially when you could just buy up 90% horses and dominate the ring). I've always liked the idea, but the execution would be complicated, and I think a lot of players would just skip competitions like these since it would take up even more time on EV, something which a lot of players don't particularly want to do.}