Associations/Grading Levels

I checked through the master post and couldn't find anything similar but please tell me if there is something I have missed.

I have been thinking about this idea for a while now, I know we have clubs that can be breed specific but I was thinking of something more like the Hall of Fame and was run by the "Game”. I have always liked the idea of horses being graded like the stats system. When they reach a certain level of points, they are able to compete in a higher level. I have also noticed that confirmation means nothing in the game, and I wanted a way for it to be valuable. 

The Idea:
The basic understanding of it, is that in the Town section there would be an area called “The Grading Associations”. There would be an Association for every breed. Once you have selected a breed you would be able to see something like the hall of fame. 
You would select a breed for example Quarter Horse and then select a Grade (grading system will be shown below) and you can see the top horses or maybe a random selections of quarter horses in that grade. I have tried to consider how this would work and feel the best way for it to work would be like the Speciality Information on a horses page. The horse would be born with a grading, and this grade will go up over time until a horse reaches 20 years old; grades won’t change once a horse hits 20 (feel free to suggest a different age). 
You would see this information below the Specialty Information in another tab called Grading Information. It would be set out in the format of – 
Grade Title – (grade title here) Grade Level – (Grade Level here) There would be five levels. 
Level Progress – (a bar under that shows you how far away your horse is from the levelling to the next grade level or grade title)
Grades don’t exactly give your horse anything apart from being able to show how well bred they are, I also think it would just be a fun edition to the game and would make breeding for conformation have some degree of purpose. 

How Would Horses Be Scored?


Horses scores would be calculated from their conformation, Total Horse Points (from showing) and their Stats.

Scoring System:

**My system scoring has been slightly based on the Real Life scoring systems** I was going to use Bronze-Gold but I feel that is so overused to I based it of traditional hierarchy to make it a bit more interesting. XD

There would be different levels: 
 

• Standard (Silver - Platinum)

• Model (Silver - Platinum)

• Premium (Silver - Platinum)

• Elite (Silver - Platinum)

Huh, you used one of my Paint mares. 😊

I'd really like this idea if there were rewards given once a horse reaches a certain rank. I think the prize should be per horse and not per account, though. This way people will have an incentive to keep on breeding good horses. There should be some kind of block so you can't breed 10 foals from one mare and earn points for 10 Elite Platinums, of course. This would go really well with my idea to raise the prize money in higher level shows. Both add value to horses and encourage the breeding of quality stock. I also like the idea that non-specialty stats don't count. It's not going to work unless there are rewards of some kind, though. Perhaps it could be items rather than monetary? New backgrounds or decorations you can only get from this. I would really like that and it might even get me breeding again. Every so often the rewards could rotate so you won't be able to get them until the same time next year. There could also be some items that could only be gotten during events such as Halloween getup for your horses. However, these prizes should be available at relatively low tiers so people don't get discouraged.

The main obstacle with giving prizes is how to do it without ruining the economy. I think rotation will help, but more ideas are welcomed.

@Syrien I love your suggestions!

Maybe Certain levels have specific prizes that rotate? 

An example - Model horses will get treat prizes, the higher the horses level the more valuable the prize? Maybe only horses in the Elite level could get grading specific prizes, maybe as you said specific backgrounds, or maybe rugs (we have had them before I think), these items can only be worn by Elite horses maybe? 

I understand what you are saying about breeding and how people might easily be able to breed very high levelled horses, maybe the point system could be changed so that instead of an elite horse being between 15k and 20k they only start at 20k? Or horses could have their points capped at say age 15, as I know a lot of people don't breed horses till later.