Conformation Horses

[Paperback]

I have been working on a line of Conformation horses, and I was wondering why some of the big winners had their stats maxxed, doesn't that change the breed penelty score? Also, if you max your conformation horse's stats, and a stat accidently rolls does that make it better or worse? And, should you train them while eventing them or train them and then event like you would with a horse in any other event? Thanks to all who read!

[Alabama]

Maxing a conformation horse will change its score, that's why the big winners are trained. (Most of them started with scores in the 30's.) Whether training hurts or helps depends on how you train it. It's different for every horse. Rolling a stat may be good or bad, depending on which stat rolls, how much and when.

Conformation training is different from any other event. You can't max them like normal, there isn't even a way to write a guide because each and every horse is different and every breed is different. You have to reach a set score with horses that start with different scores in each stat. It's not like other events where you essentially need to get the highest actuals possible in certain stats. Actuals play almost no part in conformation, maxing is a side affect of the training.

I trained most of those big winners. It takes me about 5 hours to train just one (that's after training better than 50 of them) and after about a half an hour setting up the training schedule and planning when to train what. But it takes days of breeding ahead of time to get a single one born with stats that are possible to be trained. The first ones I trained, ones that aren't very good or that I screwed up, took me more than 12 hours to train. It's tedious and nerve wracking and one mistake can ruin the horse's score. I don't train them often for this reason. It's never the same, you have to be constantly thinking and paying attention to every single stat and when you get close to finishing, it gets even harder and easier to make a catastrophic mistake.

Of the handful of people I've tried to teach how, only one actually understood and she about had a heart attack before her first horse was done. It took us 3 or 4 days working together to get it trained. I don't know if she's tried training more or not LOL

[Wolfsbayne]

I just started yesterday, managed to breed 4 arabians with 29 but nothing lower. Would love to learn to train them properly but im too young for a heart attack! lol

My question is - does anybody event their horses with any bonuses? It says in the bonus guide to have cool competitor and mighty and mountless but I suppose these could actually make horses worse.

[Alabama]

I don't event conformation with bonuses. But, I did send one to someone else to event with some bonuses and they didn't seem to affect the horse's score.

[Alabama]

I never pay attention to the overall score. When I stopped doing that is when I started seeing the possibility of being able to train them. Overall scores can be very deceiving. It's the individual scores that matter, and for breeding, especially the build and personality scores since those can't be trained in any way.

[Broodmare_paint]

Of the handful of people I've tried to teach how, only one actually understood and she about had a heart attack before her first horse was done. It took us 3 or 4 days working together to get it trained. I don't know if she's tried training more or not LOL

Hence why the horse is named Heart Attack. Still havn't attempted another. Im fearful for my life. xD

[Paperback]

Thanks Alabama, that was really helpful, it sounds very confusing though haha maybe I should just stick to my foxhunting, though I would really love to learn how to do the conformation training.