The main way i make money is by sending my horses to work,in the career center under estate. I recommend choosing a breed or two, and filling up your stables and working them every 30 minutes

Hi, I have found the best way to make money is by entering horses in discipline shows. However as a new player it might be better to start with careers since there is no entry fee.

Set all of your horse's careers to Model Horse ( you don't need to buy anything for this unlike working draft, therapy horse ect). Then go to Estate > Career center and work them every 30 min. It might be beneficial to buy some cheap horses (Go to "Search" which is the magnifying glass) and buy horses that are under $100 if available, or go to the rescue center. You can then breed these horses to make more horses for yourself for free.

If you have a purebred horse, you can see if they do well in Halter. The payout is pretty good for high placings, but don't show them if they do poorly, there isn't a way to train to improve halter.

You can also gather explore items. The dark horse mine gives you gems and small chance for ingots. You can sell these in the market place.

Make sure you create shows daily, if people enter your shows, you get part of the entry fee. You can also enter your own horses in these and you get a part of your own entry fee back.

Then if you are able to spend real money on the game, you can buy ingots and then sell them in the market place. 100 ingots usually goes for about $25-$50k bits.