Competitions

Entering competitions with your horses is one way to earn Horse Coins in the game. When a horse is entered in a competition, you cannot perform any other actions with that horse until the competition is over or you pay 1 Horse Cash to withdraw.

Event Categories
There are five (5) event categories. Each competition takes a certain amount of time, and there are different competition lengths in each category ranging from 30 minutes to 24 hours. Each event is associated with a skill, and horses who train in that skill or have an Affinity for it will perform better than horses who do not. Some Horse Breeds also have a natural talent for one or two events.

Training for Competitions
Your horse's performance in a competition is based on its Proficiency rating and its Affinity for that particular event category. You increase your Proficiency by training an adult horse. Affinity is controlled when the horse is still a foal and stops when it ages up. You can increase your foal's Affinity for a particular event by paying 300 Horse Coins for Education classes. For example, if you want a Racing horse, you can pay for Racing Affinity classes.

Each horse has a Max Proficiency, which is the maximum level you can achieve through training with that horse. Once you reach the Max Proficiency, you won't be able to train anymore. The only way to increase your Proficiency past the maximum is by going on a Riding Tour, which increases your Proficiency by +0.05 each time, or by using Foal Training while your horse is a foal to raise its proficiency by up to a few points over its maximum.

You cannot increase the Max Proficiency of your horse. The way to get higher proficiency horses is through breeding. If you breed your horse with a stud or mare that has a higher proficiency than yours, you will get a foal with a slightly higher Max Proficiency. As long as you continue to breed your horses with higher proficiency studs and mares, each generation of foals will have a higher Max Proficiency. Read more about this on the Breeding Page.

Cheering
When you enter a competition, you will be given the option to Share your competition on your Facebook Wall. When you Share your competition, your Riding Pals can click on it to Cheer for you. Cheering helps you win your competition, and the more Riding Pals who Cheer, the more likely you are to win your competition.

You can also Share your competition after you already enter, by clicking on the "Share" button above your event timer.