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AnnieAngel's Training Level Guide

I have written this guide and chart to assist players in knowing what level their horse can acheive through training and how to do it. The level a horse can achieve is based on its born intelligence. I have trained up a horse of each main intelligence type in halter to test out what levels they can acheive. I generally stopped training them at age 20+ as the level bar was not rising enough to be able to acheive another level before the horse would be retired. Now there are a few things to remember when reading this chart:

~the lower level in each inteligence section is the level that the horse began having dificulties raising the level

~When it comes to which level the horse can acheive the stat numbers of intelligence do play a big role as low numbers will not acheive as high a level as the higher numbers

~There are three basic parts of a stat, Low- The horse for example has just acheived being an extroardinary intelligence by both stat numbers for intelligence being equal, Medium- The horse is in a comfortable middle of the stat, High- The horse just missed being (for example) an Amazing instead of an extroardinary by a very small amount based on the stat numbers.

~All horses regardless of age will reach the same base levels as all the other horses. For example: A Fairly good intelligence horse and a Inconceivable intelligence horse will rach Level 10 at the same age. It is the intelligence max level that will change the horses age compared to the others. Basically if a horse can acheive the level easily they will reach the level at the same age as any other horse who can acheive that level easily.

~These are based on ONE horse of each intelligence, some may possibly attain a level higher than listed here, but they will most likely be around 30+yrs to attain it. Do not assume that a horse of a certain intelligence can attain the highest level listed. Some horses used were the high or medium of a stat and could attain the higher level. Also to attain the higher level it will take time and patience, sometimes the level bar will not go up for 3-5+ full training days.

How to Raise Discipline Levels

Discipline	Training Options	Event Types
Bronco	Arena: Enrage (available at 2.5yrs)	Bronco
Dressage	Arena: Dressage (available at 2.5yrs)	Dressage: levels- training, level 1-4, prix St George, and Grand Prix. Can be Solo or Pas de Deux
Driving	Driving (available immediatly)	Driving: Marathon, Driving: Dressage, Driving: Cones All can be solo, pairs or teams of 4
Endurance	Trail: Endurance (available immediatly)	Endurance in 5,10,25, or 50 miles
Eventing	Arena: Jumping and Arena: Dressage (both available at 2.5yrs), Trail:Endurance(available immediatly)	Eventing in Jump height 1-6, Cross country distance 1,2,5,8 miles, and dressage levels: training, level 1-4, prix St George, and Grand Prix.
Gaited	Gaited: Movement (available immediatly)	Gaited
Halter	Arena: Obstacle and Arena: Halter (both available immediatly)	Halter: Showmanship, Halter: Confirmation
Jumping	Arena: Jumping (available at 2.5yrs)	Jumping: Show, Jumping: Hunter, jump height 1-6
Racing	Track: Breeze (available immediatly)	Racing: Sprint, Racing: Track, Racing: Steeplechase, Racing: Harness
Western	Arena: Western and Cattlework (both available at 2.5yrs)	Western: Barrels, Western: Pleasure, Western: Reining, Western: Penning, Western: Riding All can be solo or pairs

Level Horse Can Acheive

Intelligence	Level Acheived	Notes
Inconceivable	23-25	Can take to age 20-25+, but will always make it to lvl 23, can acheive lvl 24 if intelligence stat is 104+ at birth. To acheive lvl 25 a horse must have 109+ born intelligence.
Phenominal	22-23	A very high phenominal can just make it to lvl 23 but cannot seem to go much higher and is around 26+ when it finally makes it.
Amazing	21-22	Average lvl gain, made it to 22 at around 20+ yrs
Extroardinary	20-22	Average lvl gain, made it to 21 at around 20+ yrs extremely high extro can get to 22.
Fantastic	19-21	High fantastic/almost extro can make it to lvl 21 at 24+ yrs
Supurb	18-20	Made it to lvl 19 at age 15 would most likely make it to lvl 20 around 25-30+ yrs
Extremely Good	17-19	Was a bit of a slow process at lvl 17, but made it to lvl 19 at 20+ yrs
Very Good	16-18	Became a slow process at lvl 16, but made it to 18 at 18+ yrs, very very slow to lvl further most likely will not acheive any higher.
Good	15-18	Took til around 24+ yrs to make it to lvl 18
Fairly Good	14-16	Became a slow process at lvl 14, but made it to 16 at 18+ yrs, very very slow to lvl further most likely will not acheive any higher.

Now first things first you will need to break your horse in takes 2 trainings to do so then pick your discipline of choice. Now once you have your discipline you will need to find out what training you need to do to raise the level of that discipline. Now if your horse is over 2.5 yrs you will have no problem finding the training option you need. Now if it is a horse under 2.5 yrs and the discipline you want does not have a training option until age 2.5 I highly reccomend choosing Halter as a discipline at first and training it in Obstacle until it reaches 2.5 yrs. Once it is 2.5 yrs old click the yes, do it box and then the clear specialty button then choose the discipline you wanted and it will be at half the level you acheived with halter (example if you get it to level 10 halter then change the discipline you will be at level 5 in that discipline). This is the best way to ensure you can get the highest level possible at the youngest age as you will still gain levels without having the training options you need.

Now to ensure the best training you will need to follow a few rules:

1. Use the repeat button and not the train button unless setting a taining option.. (when you use the train button and select a certain training option it will remain selected. When you only use the repeat button on a new training option it will train in that option but will reselect the old training option you used before). The repeat button will not exhaust your horse no matter how many times you click it, your horse will also not run away.

2. If you have 2 or more trainings left out of the 6 you get per turn after pressing the repeat button, hit the hyper button then press repeat again. This will raise the horse's energy allowing you to train it more. Now the hyper button will lower the horse's condition so be careful not to over use it without healing inbetween. The best time to fully heal a horse is when the condition is down to 50 this way you're not healing very often and taking time out of training and you are also not risking letting the horse's condition get too low. Now the reason the horse needs 2 or more trainings left to use hyper is because hyper will take away 1 training making it pointless if the horse only has 1 training left.

3. Train only one horse at a time. Yes this will cost more money in the long run in turns, but the speed and quality of the training will be better and faster. Focusing on more than 1 horse at a time can cause mistakes and can be very slow if you have to switch horses all the time or training options if training different disciplines.