Welcome To Virtual Horse Ranch: Grand Prix Version
VHR is a unique massive multiplayer web game in which you can breed, buy, sell, auction, train, and compete your horses with thousands of other players. This game is very special in which all horses are unique, and created through artifical genetics in generations of breeding your horses.
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WORK ON DEVELOPING YOUR DREAM HORSE THROUGH CAREFUL BREEDING, TRAINING, AND COMPETING
ARE YOU AN ARTIST? APPLY YOUR OWN ART TO YOUR HORSES AND CUSTOMIZE YOUR OWN RANCH WEBPAGE.
OVER A DOZEN EVENT TYPES TO SPECIALIZE YOUR HORSES IN, INCLUDING JUMPING, RACING, WESTERN, AND DRESSAGE.
OVER 200 HORSE BREEDS, AND SEVERAL PERSONAL SKILLS FOR ENDLESS PLAY IN THIS SANDBOX WORLD.

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Training & Showing Your horse - Some Things you should know for success

All these words are good knowledge... not just the print in bold...
The most first and important concept about your horse is the Horse's energy bar. This bar represents how much energy It has. When ever you put some kind of training in to your horse it uses energy. If you train your horse too much in one day it will suffer exhaustion. Exhaustion is a pain: to treat it, for a few days click 'treat injury' in the training form option and then let it sit in the stables for a while. When condition is 100% and energy is 100% or it has been treated enough, the red text will go away. Don't train your horse if you have already treated it in the same day. Horses regain energy when they have rested a virtual night: this happens when you click "Proceed to Next Day (take turn)". When you execute your turn, the horse ages, gets fed, and some neat things can happen. Warning about clicking 'back' on browser rather than clicking 'return to horse' or 'return to stables': The page that displays the current stats on the horse(s) is not refreshed, or updated. If you do click back, refresh the page if you need to see the horse's current energy level.
Horses who are trained when low on energy not only suffer exhaustion but do not gain much, and eventually if they keep on getting worked out they gain nothing, but maybe injuries! How much energy the horse uses when being trained is pending the training type (i.e. endurance work out uses a lot of energy), and the horse's current stamina. If you have achieved it's stamina level high enough, you will see you can give it more work in one day. Energy also regains at a rate based on it's endurance and other health factors. A horse with good endurance/stamina might recoup a heavy workout in one night (when you execute turn).
A horse with low energy at the exact time the event is held will not perform well, so be sure to log off with horses at full energy or have your entry at full energy at event time.

Now to choose what event type to specialize in in which the horse will excel at. The first step is to look the vague description next to its stats. Stats are: Strength, Stamina(AKA Endurance), Speed, intelligence. The vague description is just a few words based on an actual number representing that stat. I refer to this as the Natural Abilities. It is Not the horse's Actual Ability. Actual abilities are given through training, and are based on the horse's natural ability. All horses are born with 90% of their actual abilities. Your horse can achieve way above and beyond the percantage given above the vague description. But if left untrained and unkept for days it will decay back to 100% of it's natural level.
So once you have an idea of your horses natural ability, look at types of training. It is fairly logical: Racing is based mostly on speed, dressage is intelligence, jumping: speed, strength and intelligence etc... A horse with "Average" speed and 110% of that will not necessarily be faster than one with 90% of its "Supurb" speed. Perhaps if that horse had 250% over its 'average' speed, it would be the fastest horse in the game at the time I am writing this.

Now that you understand why you shouldn't train your horse too much in one turn/virtual day and you have picked a horse's career, the next step is learning what to excerize-train in specifically. I am going to throw in a tip/trick then explain events.
Going to use a jumping specialized horse as an example. Here is the big tip: Example: If your horse looses to a horse that faulted in a jumping competition-and your horse did not fault, then your horse needs to work on speed more. Here is the trick: By working on other specializations than the one you want the horse to excell at, you can maintain your horse's condition and stats yet improve some that you specifically trained in. However you may not gain 'skill' and achieve level gain, But! this can be good if you want your horse to kick arse in the lower level competition, which are not purely judged by it's trainings. Now to figure out how it's performance is judged in individual competitions!

So now that you understand how training most important improves horse's stats, you want to see how your horse is judged up agains tothers!
I am shooting in one example of an event type and to how it effects the performance. I may add more later if demanded too, but you can get the idea- it is very logical.
Track Races: The Key judgement of your horses speed on the race track is it's Actual Speed. A hidden set of numbers, like the Natural speed is, in your horses genetics. There are MANY different factors that slightly adjust and influence the performance of a horse. If you think you have a very fast horse, it doesn't mean it will win the event.
In track racing it is:
  • Age : A horse too young(under 2 years old), or a horse too old (5+ years old) will slow it down slightly. The older it is, the slower it races. Racing is a fast paced-harsh sport in which horses are primarily bred for their natural speed.
  • Condition: Condition plays a big roll in all events, as to it is the overall health of the horse.
  • Energy: Big roll- a deadbeat horse just won't have it in him/her.
  • Actual Endurance: For that extra edge, a fit horse will have it in him to take the others in the last forlong, or hold the lead from the start.
  • Discipline: Discipline plays a small roll in racing- it is nice to teach your horse about starting gates to avoid disaster =) Too much discipline might take off that competitive spirit.
  • Actual Strength: Strengh applies to speed- gives them a small edge.
  • Actual intelligence: Does not play a part in racing.
  • Diet & hunger: A well fed horse will perform better than a hungry horse...
  • Experience: A horse that has entered events and figured out the ropes a bit will perform better.
  • It's training: Less crucial in race horses, but to actually know that it's suppose to go faster with a tap of the whip is probably good!
    Now all these factors play a smaller or larger part in how fast your horse can compete against others.

    Good luck, and I hope this was helpful!


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