Couple Questions

what is all the tack listed as (1/5) is that how many uses that item has left or is that 'level 1 of 5' on each tack?

Also is there a scale for conformation and show levels? I noticed both have new terminology such as 'awful' (I assume is the worst idk) but also what are the show levels from 1-(unknown?)

I've been told L is 'local' and R is 'regional' but don't know anything.

So, I'm still learning all this too, so I can't be 100% sure I'm correct on this, but --

Tack can be leveled up, from level 1/5 to 5/5. Any horse can wear/show in any level tack - but the higher the level the more bonus points the tack will give, so upgrade it under the tack place in town!

I'm lost on confirmation, atm. I know that around 98ish is perfect though - I'm not sure how you can boost confirmation, probably still through breeding horses to better confirmations/better confirmation parents.

And I think the show levels go like:
Local lv 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
then to
Regional lv 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

L1 is lowest, R5 is highest, so get to those Rs!

There's also N1, Novice, though, for show levels. I think that one is for horses with little or no training/show experience.

Confirmation, as I understand it, can't be changed but can effect show scores. It mainly effects foals when you breed two horses. For example, my horse Rhythm has the following confirmation stats:

Head 50.00 Good
Neck 28.00 Poor
Withers 97.00 Perfect
Back 94.00 Excellent
Shoulders 80.00 Excellent
Legs 73.00 Good
Knees 66.00 Good
Hooves 60.00 Good

Average 68.50

If I were to breed her to another horse, I would want to make sure that any weak areas she has (her neck) were strong areas for the other horse, so excellent or perfect.

At the same time, I would want to make sure they had at least a mark of "good" where all of her positive traits were, to keep them from becoming "poor" or "awful" traits on the foal.

I haven't bred any horses on the recode, yet, but I believe the confirmation traits will average out when they are passed along to the foal. So If you bred a horse with all perfect traits to a horse with all good traits, the foal would most likely have mostly excellent traits, depending on the final rating of that particular trait.