Specialists Extraordinaire's Forum Thread

Wow, you're right! it actually is so unutilised that I had to check where it is on a horse page! XD The contest in which a main criteria would be height'd be super interesting, but as SE includes horses from all breeds in the register, it could be a little bit unfair for it to be the only criterium. But it could definetly be one of them!
Maybe a conformation show in which a horse that's very tall for its breed would have additional advantage?
I think that we didn't had a conformation-based contest with no additional restrictions yet.

[Registry matters]
Should we add a rule that we don't accept cubed horses (due to increasing NSS) or this additional restriction'd be unnecessary?
What do you think about it?

Last edited on 2019-11-23 at 16:21:34 by Thunder

I think that because there are non specialty stat rules in place already that it wouldn't be a completely bad idea. I have 3 clubs, two of which have non specialty stat requirements, I do not accept horses being cubed into them. 

I'd support not accepting cubed horses!

@Olympea, @io, thank you for your insight! I'll update the rules on the page when I'll have time to do it :)

We've got a new mascot! Fenomenal racing clyde Plastic Love have been replaced by lovely miniature dressage mare Mai Luka, which will be our mascot for the entire December! Congratulations to breeders of the winners, Minka
and Mattie's Holiday Magic whose horse is holding 2nd place.
Our registry consists of 749 horses now, which means we're only one horse away from our next milestone championship! :D

We've reached the milestone! The Special Championate's entries are open! :D

The 2nd Special Championate is over! Congratulations to all the participants! :) Our winner is Féline's
Racing Clyde mare, [C.II] Kv. Amenra [46]! She'll be showcased on our page alongside previous champion. 2nd place belongs to Galaxy Hill Stable's Dressage Clyde Stallion Achernar! 3rd place belongs to Dr. Tanner's Clyde {THNDR} G1B "52nd Street".
For future reference, please don't enter horses over 17yo to a contest (rules, guys!) and please, PLEASE don't enter the horses which you plan to convert to a spec which'd no longer grant them a place in our registry. This will result in disqualification.
 

There's a new mascot contest open for entries! If you keep or breed endurance horses this is their time to shine :)

The new mascot contest is open for entries! This time we're choosing our mascot out of show jumpers! :)

Just a heads-up, we've got a new mascot contest running! This time we're choosing our mascot from driving horses :)
The entries time is a little longer than usual (the deadline is 3rd June) to conpensate for the contest launching so late.

Surprise! We've crossed a next treshold when it comes to the Special Championate! (due to a lot of rl things I didn't manage to finish a ribbon and layout for a previous one yet XD) anyway, get your best S.E. horses ready, the Special Championate will be launching in few days!

Our October Mascot Contest was won by magnificent clydesdale Loch Doon Big Hero belonging to Khatir! 2nd place belongs to Magic, Ariel's Song's morgan! box's lovely miniature stallion Taffy Dream scored 3rd.
(I still have yet to make a picture of our Special Championate winner, which is A3F2I1 EeCrcrDd 61.66 M, sikora's SJ Morgan mare)

(the notice board has been updated!)

Last edited on 2020-10-01 at 04:18:43 by Thunder

Question: Will Grade Horses eventually be welcomed into the club? I can see that so far they're only mainly Dressage and Western horses according to the statistics page

For now I don't plan to add Grade Horses to the accepted breed combinations. One of the main reasons breeding horses with uncommon specialties is that there isn't many of them at the higher levels, which after a few generations makes crossing with horses from outside your own herd difficult. In case of Grade horses, one can cross any of the two breeds with fitting specialties to get sufficiently high-stat horse.
There's no limit to which breed can be in the grade horse's pedigree - so there are different challenges to breeding them than the lack of breeding stock.