Welcome to Horse Fable. 😊

It's important here to develop a show string to earn you monies (bits). Unlike HWO, you will find it very difficult to support yourself on just one grinder and a color-string. High TB (training boost) will be key for a successful show string line while you play around with other breeding projects. PS (performance stats) essentially the BR stats will determine which discipline they're best in. As you train the horse, the PS will increase. You'll want to train the horse in your selected discipline. Unlike HWO, it's the TB and your training that will make your horse perform well in the discipline (alongside the stars of the horse, stars indicate how close to breed standard they are). So a high training boost will earn your horse a lot of points for the performance stats and with a lot of overall points for their discipline, they'll gain ranks and tiers that will earn you more bits (monies). Once you reach tier 2, you won't have too much competition, almost regardless of discipline.

As a couple final notes, I find that you'll need about half as many show string horses to support all of your other non-earning or poor-earning horses.

Any 4 or 5 star basic horses will do best in halter shows. Any 3 or lesser star, basic horses will generally do better in career (farm or education or model, etc.). And finally, high TB (training boost) horses will do best in discipline when you're international, elite or universal and then when the horse graduates to tier 2. Tier 2 starts the graduation progression at foundation level again. We have four tiers here.

FYI: I'm BlackOak2 over on HWO.

ohh hi BlackOak!! Thanks for the tips!

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didnt understand anything you wrote 🥲

@BebeVucci - what I wrote in response to Midnight Owl was very specifically using HWO terms to highlight Horse Fable's gameplay. Those not familiar with HWO wouldn't have understood much or anything of what I explained.

Here's your basic explanation instead.

Making bits here isn't an easy thing when first starting out. What you want is a horse with good PS (Performance Stats) and high TB (Training Boost). These horses will gain training quickly moving them through the basic ranks (Foundation, National, International, etc.) and through Tiers (Tier 1 through 4). The higher ranks and tiers your horse reaches, the more bits it can earn. 

High Starred horses (horse stars from 1 to 5) can help with earning bits, but if you have a horse with good PS and high TB and that horse is in Tier 2, there won't be too much competition, so bits are almost always guaranteed.

To build your group of horses, you will want them to earn levels. The more levels they have, the higher TB your foals will earn when you breed. To earn levels, you will use Discipline, Halter or Career. Low starred horses do better in career. High starred horses (4 and 5 star) do best in Halter. Disciplines won't earn you much bits, but can earn you levels, so with Tier 1 horses, only use disciplines to earn levels if you don't care about bits.

If you earn levels consistently with your Foundation, Wild or Custom horses, the third generation should start you off at high Tier 1 foals that will graduate to Tier 2 Foundation with just a handful of trainings, thus earning you plenty of bits. But those first two generations (foundation generation and first foal generation) can be a bit of a grind.

So, keep a look-out for high PS and high TB horses that you can build a bit-earning, show-string group of horses. Meanwhile, you can fiddle with your project-passion of whatever breed or cross you want to. You'll want approximately 1 show horse for every two passion-project horse to keep you earning bits in the positive.

I hope that helps a little.