One of the best ways to get money is to use the Career Path on your horses!  You get a standard Modeling Stage so if you set your horses' career to Model, you'll be able to have them model for you several times a day (but you have to manually do it yourself).  If you go to Estate -> Career Center and click, you'll be able to earn money quickly :)

I cannot answer for the ingots but to branch off what Astral said:

Besides careers with horses, you could also host your own player run shows.

If you can upgrade down the line, you can buy more slots for running shows, so for example, I have all 20. I do 3 shows in Universal Flat Racing, 3 in Elite, all the way down until all 20 shows are done. I used to do it randomly for the disciplines my horses were in but now I stick to Flat Racing only.

Not only that, you can either go to the Dark Mines to earn some bits and sometimes even ingots as well as possibly finding some gems. These gems, you can sell to other players: Market. Marketplace. Newest Trades. I forgot where, but some gems are worth 1k and some are worth 2k; I think that info might be in Discord but I cannot recall.

You could also explore the game by clicking through tabs or clicking through players' horses to find items be it Dyes, Treat Items or even Wild Horses. Wild Horses require little bit more work to capture but you can find 3*, 4* and 5* wilds and sell them if you do not want them. You can out them into the Auctions flat out or put them up in the Newest Trades that way and ask for other things that isn't concretely set for bits.

The items you can use to capture these wilds can be petting them ((it takes energy so be mindful of this)). Lassos. Whistles or treat items; ex: Alfalfa. Clover. Apples. Molasses etc. You could also go to Craft Room tab and hit up the Cooking tab to combine items to create a balled treat. Oats and Alfalfa is considered secondary items while the others, excluding Molasses, is considered first items. The Molasses you can take and use those balled items to create sweet treats which will help even moreso with capturing the wilds. Be mindful this also cost bits to make but can be worth it in the end.


Or if you want, those treat items you can sell to others under Newest Trades if you want to wait until you are more established with money.

thanks for your tips

It's definitely rough in the beginning, especially when it comes to bits but running shows, entering into Careers and then selling ingots and or stuff you find is relatively easiest way to go about the game early on until you can do good earning bits from your horses running in shows as well.

You can also look at the latest trades to get a semi idea on how other folks are pricing their ingots too. Believe highest I've seen lately there was 1 ingot was 500 bits.  Lowest? It varies on the sellers' choice on what to put them up for and it usually gets automatically bought up right away.

FWIW, I've never spent more than $500 per igot. (20 ingot = $10,000) Typically I buy around $350 per igot.