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Is there a certain point you can stop tracking the training? EX: At week 35 or 65 does it really matter? |
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Every person has their own preference on when to stop tracking, but the average is wk12-16. Edited at December 11, 2018 01:37 PM by Moonlight Stud |
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Thank you... and ideally what should we be seeing at week 12-16? |
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Training essentially goes in 4 week cycles. The preferable training for the first and second weeks are that nothing is down. The third week, some horses have a trait up if they're very strong in it. The fourth week, horses who are strong in a trait will go up. Then, the cycle repeats. The fifth week is the same as the first week, so ideally everything should be up. So, if your first week looks like this: wk 1: 111111 wk 2: 111111 wk 3: 111111 wk 4: 112122
Weeks 12-16 should look about like this:
wk 12: 223233 wk 13: 333333 wk 14: 333333 wk 15: 333333 wk 16: 334344
It would be great if a horse went up an additional trait on the third or fourth week of a cycle, but it's more likely a horse will be down a bit in the first and second weeks. Personally, I only cull for training between weeks 5 and 6, and use the rest of the tracking for matching purposes. |
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White Crown Stables said:
Training essentially goes in 4 week cycles. The preferable training for the first and second weeks are that nothing is down. The third week, some horses have a trait up if they're very strong in it. The fourth week, horses who are strong in a trait will go up. Then, the cycle repeats. The fifth week is the same as the first week, so ideally everything should be up. So, if your first week looks like this:
wk 1: 111111 wk 2: 111111 wk 3: 111111 wk 4: 112122
Weeks 12-16 should look about like this:
wk 12: 223233 wk 13: 333333 wk 14: 333333 wk 15: 333333 wk 16: 334344
It would be great if a horse went up an additional trait on the third or fourth week of a cycle, but it's more likely a horse will be down a bit in the first and second weeks. Personally, I only cull for training between weeks 5 and 6, and use the rest of the tracking for matching purposes.
Thank you! That is a great help! There is always so much to learn on this game! |
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Sorry I'm a newbie, Where do I find those numbers in order to track progress and what do they each represent? |
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Week 4 is the week that horses with a rating of PPP or higher can be expected to have traits go up. Those are the Movement, Intelligence, Heart, Scope, Speed, and Strength you see on their page. You track them in the order they are listed. If are horse goes up in Movement and Scope week 4, the six numbers that represent those traits look like this. 211211 Week 5, you would want an EEE or higher horse to have all traits up. If we use the example week 4 above and a week 5 with all up, this is how I make mine look. Week 4 211211 Week 5 222222 Wild horses start at level 2, so everything is a 3 when they are captured. If it trains in the way the 'horse' above does, it looks like this. Week 4 433433 Week 5 444444 Horses go up in all sorts of patterns. If a horse is up in Scope, Speed, and Strength week 4, down in Heart week 5, it looks like this. Week 4 111222 Week 5 221222 I hope this explain helps. This is the best way I can think to describe it. You can also look at peoples yearlings on the Monday of week 4 each month when everyone is posting their foals in chat to talk about their training to see how everyone formats and more training combinations. |
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So does that mean that wild horses start on Week 3 or did you just skip to the weeks 4 and 5 for the example? |
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The numbers 3 and 4 in the above example do not represent the weeks but the numbers of bars a horse has in each trait. A wild horse will have 3 bars in all traits when captured, so even without training they start with a 333333 pattern. They do not skip training weeks, the only difference is the number of bars they had in the traits when they began training.
Singing Gem Stables said:
So does that mean that wild horses start on Week 3 or did you just skip to the weeks 4 and 5 for the example?
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