1 Is there a comparison between all-disipline showing between SSS, PPP, EEE, and/or WWW horses for yearly winnings or profit, and their showing schedule? Are we bearing traits (like Heart) in mind when making these comparisons, or overlooking them?

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2 How do you value a show horse (gelding, stallion, or mare) when selling? What if you aren't concerned with selling a show horse in a hurry? Do you ever sell a show horse for substancially less than what it earned you in the yearly winnings(one real-life month)?

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https://hyrimcanyon.weebly.com/showing.html Hyrim Canyon's HEE guide was a helpful resource for me. To greatly over-simply, it sounds like SSS and stronger rated horses are acceptable, but Heart weakness is undesirable for show horses.

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3 How weak can we permit the Heart trait to be to avoid a poor show horse? Should Heart be among the strongest 3 traits?

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Granted my SSS starter mare was weakest in both Int and Hrt, put on cycle supressant late (age 6 or so), and taken off it again last month. She has brought in $70k in total yearly winnings, even if it isn't all in profit. https://horseeden.com/horse.php?id=20212530

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Any additional comments or constructive critism is welcome.

1. I don't compare yearly winnings. A SSS rated horse takes much longer to train and level than an EEE horse. However the EEE will be a schoolmaster at the age of 15 or 16 so by then the horse stops earning me money while an SSS horse is still showing. So rather compare their overall winnings at the end of a horse's showing life. Ideally you want earnings of 300k+ with AD show horses. I track all my show horses' training to see how they do in hrt, mv and spd. If they're weak in hrt, I cull them, if they're only average in mv and spd, I cull them. Horses low in hrt spook easier in shows and have a lot mores faults in XC and SJ or even get eliminated. Mv and spd are important for saturday shows. Even if a horse is scoring first places in regular dressage shows, it won't earn you money on saturday shows if it's low in mv. As I only keep a small show string, I'm very picky about my show horses.

2. I pay 1k per showing level max. Like I said above, I don't care much about yearly winnings. Maybe the horse has levelled up or wasn't shown properly. If you enter your horses in member shows, they suddenly seem to earn tons of money, but that's just because the entering fees are higher. So let's say you enter a horse into a very expensive member show (e.g. 30k). Because the entering fees are so high, there's only one more horse competing against yours and it wins, you still get 15k back. So technically you horse lost you 15k but in your horse's showing record it's said to have earned 15k through showing making it look better than it actually was. I personally show any rating. I like to keep my offspring as showing horses because it's cheapest and it guarantees you a steady income of showing horses. I show anything that's got four legs, no matter the gender.

3. Hrt is key if you show AD. I expect my show horses to be at least average in hrt. For PPP geldings that means they have to gain a bar in hrt by wk5 or they get culled. Lower rated geldings and mares get a little more time as they train slower. I track their training to see where they're strong or weak in.

70k for a 16 year old mare is actually quite low even for an SSS. She's still level 5 meaning she's got her best showing levels yet to come if she lives to see them. Starting age 19 she has a random chance of dying and she likely won't make it to schoolmaster level. I keep my mares on CS to have them train faster. On CS they also don't act up that much in shows giving you better placings.

Thank-you Moony