can't seem to win a class!

[Miss Ruby]

Hey. I used to be very active within the game, and stopped for a long time. In the meantime, we got bonuses and other changes. I think that I have been using them appropriatly, but I can't seem to train a winning horse! I mean, before, I used to breed/train 20 mill+ dressage horses, now I can't seem to get anything in the top 10! For instance; I trained this horse:

http://virtualhorseranch.com/viewhorse. ... se=1924834

My training ranch's bonuses are: Tenacious Trainer, Longevity, Teh Smarts, Fit and Fearless, Grace and Glory, Wholesome Warmbloods

My eventing ranch's bonuses are: Cool Competitor, Proud and Proper, Magically Mighty, Teh Smarts

They all have draft shoes, full tack, riders with +127 English skill...

how am I getting my but kicked every time? I mean, I know that I'm not the best player ever, but I used to decent! Help!!!!!! thanks!

[stephjadams]

You should event from a sponsor account with the full 10 bonuses.
*EDIT*
If I was still doing dressage,(training & eventing on one account) these are the bonuses I would have:
Tenacious Trainer
Cool Competitor
Randomless Randoms
Judges Favorite
Rightchous Riders
Proud & Proper
Teh Smarts
Magically Mighty
Wholesome Warmbloods
Longevity or Grace & Glory

[kwiedman]

Are disciplines at 200?

It would also help to have Grace & Glory as a bonus. And as a last note, dressage is very competitive at the moment, most people riding "Myself" with 100% English Riding skill.

[Miss Ruby]

Okay; so two questions:

1) Does having Myself ride count more than a rider w/ 127?
2) Just double checking - the show bonuses count for the barn that the horse is in when the event runs, not the barn that the horse was in when I entered it, right? So I can have one barn with all the training bonuses where I train and actually enter the shows, then transfer to my show barn with the showing bonuses for the horses to wait for the show to run. (Just double-checking, trying to get my bonuses up and making sure that it works)

[kwiedman]

Yes, the events run with the bonuses in the ranch the horse is in at the time of running.

And having yourself as a rider with 100% english riding skill is way better than the 127.

[Miss Ruby]

Thanks! Just one more question: if I train a horse in ranch a, and put "myself" from ranch a as the rider, than I transfer the horse to ranch b, can the ranch a "myself" rider still work? I noticed that I did that to one of my horses, and when I transferred them, on the event page it showed the rider as blank

[Jellybeanjoe]

You seemed to have answered that yourself already: No, it won't work. Which kinda makes sense if you think about it