Riding Schools!

Riding Schools
We have a brand new feature for Deluxe accounts - however this feature benefits ALL members on the game, not just Deluxes!

Any member who has an open stable (a Deluxe account) can now open their own Riding School (visit your Stables page for more information!). All members can submit any horse with unused show slots to the Riding School to earn guaranteed money and experience, and also a chance of stats to go along with those bonuses.

So for those of you who have horses which don't tend to do so well in shows, you can now use Riding Schools to boost your income a bit, as well as gain some stats that you would otherwise lose out on because they don't place in shows. You can also let your retired horses work in the riding school!

This is an alternative to showing - you can choose to either enter 10 shows per day, or submit the horse to work for 10 hours. Or you can change it up a bit and submit for 7 hours of schooling and 3 shows. It's up to you!

"Currently Popular Discipline" rotates on a daily basis. Horses submitted to Riding Schools which match the currently popular discipline will gain a minor boost in earnings and experience.

You can search for Riding Schools in the Stable Search!

New Features & Changes
* Due to a popular user suggestion, the way stables are privatised has changed. You can now choose how many stalls you want to be made available to the public. You can choose all, none, or somewhere in between - it's entirely up to you. Stables which were listed as public previous to this change have had their stalls set to 100% public - so you may want to review this.
* Stables page has had a bit of a revamp - you can now manage your stable information from the Stables page instead of from your account page, but additionally horses boarded at your Stables have been moved to their own separate "Barn" page. This is to help with page loading times for those stables who have a lot of horses.
* Single treats are now as effective in giving stats as their grouped counterparts. So a single Yellow Apple will now give the same chance of stats as a use of a Bag of Yellow Apples.
* Again, due to popular suggestion, members can now withdraw their club president campaigns if they wish (after first voting for themselves).

Bug Fixes
* Locking accounts should now remove horses that are locked from stables which do not belong to their owners. Those of you with locked horses stuck in your stables should now have the stalls freed up.

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Abbey 🌸
Posted on
2016-05-23 03:55:27

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Yay, thesp updates are awesome! Thanks for all your hard work c:	Posted by N Y X (#15289) 23rd May 2016 at 03:57:48
Oh the riding school sounds awesome!! Is there a limit for the amount of riding per horse per day?	Posted by ⚛ atomic (#26520) 23rd May 2016 at 04:02:59
Atomic, it uses up show slots. So a maximum of 10 hours per day if you don't show the horse.	Posted by Abbey 🌸 (#1) 23rd May 2016 at 04:03:59
Oh duh that makes sense! Thanks!	Posted by ⚛ atomic (#26520) 23rd May 2016 at 04:23:55
Are the stats gained linked to the horses discipline, to the discipline of the riding school or completly random?	Posted by Wetha (#92438) 23rd May 2016 at 04:58:06
Awesome stuff! Thanks for the update. -runs to stable-	Posted by Dox (#82285) 23rd May 2016 at 05:02:49
Stats gained are linked to the horse's Specialty.	Posted by Abbey 🌸 (#1) 23rd May 2016 at 05:05:39
Thanks, good to know. Sounds great!	Posted by Wetha (#92438) 23rd May 2016 at 05:10:10
Thank you for this. Can't wait to try it out.	Posted by Tag along farm (#101197) 23rd May 2016 at 05:12:06
Hmmm, I never did anything with the stable function despite being a deluxe. I need a guide for this I think, for setting up a stable for success etc.	Posted by megansparrow (#45453) 23rd May 2016 at 05:13:55
Quick question: are retired horses supposed to be allowed in riding school? I was so excited and sent all of my horses to school. Then I realized that I've send my retired horses to school lol not sure if its a bug or not..	Posted by Bye (#6637) 23rd May 2016 at 05:16:56
Retired horses are allowed to work in the Riding School :)	Posted by Abbey 🌸 (#1) 23rd May 2016 at 05:34:57
holy cow! saw this on fb and this is amazing :D thank you abbey for all your hard work ♥ i would never have thought of this as a solution to the showing problem :D	Posted by madoka. (#87262) 23rd May 2016 at 05:55:27
It suddenly struck me on Friday that it would be a good thing to do, so that's what I've been doing this weekend xD	Posted by Abbey 🌸 (#1) 23rd May 2016 at 06:23:33
This sounds like a really great feature to improve foundation horses that need a bit of a boost! Also a nice way to help good horses that are alone in their grades! I am curious about one thing (and I haven't yet played around with it, since I'm on my phone right now, so maybe it's obvious), but what keeps this from replacing showing? If this is guaranteed to net stats and money, would it become a better strategy to only use riding schools and stop showing altogether, even for horses that are competitive in shows?	Posted by «» Only the Wind (#55431) 23rd May 2016 at 08:12:48
Really enjoying the updates and love that I can control my whole stable from one page now!	Posted by Diamond K Stables (#100137) 23rd May 2016 at 08:40:57
Only the Wind: Winning shows gives more stats than Riding School ever would - EXP scales with horse's grade in shows whereas it doesn't in Riding School, and money scales with the number of entries in a show. Riding School, while guaranteed, gives less money/exp/stats overall. This is just an alternative for horses that don't tend to do too well in shows :)	Posted by Abbey 🌸 (#1) 23rd May 2016 at 09:26:47
Perfect! I was hoping it was something along those lines. Thank you for the clarification! This seems like a great feature, and I'm excited to play with it later. :)	Posted by «» Only the Wind (#55431) 23rd May 2016 at 09:32:59
This...is very cool!! Thank you!	Posted by Poetry n Roses II (#96916) 23rd May 2016 at 09:52:38
I am in love with this feature. I just completed my first round and omg yes! This is amazing!	Posted by hailyx (#3310) 23rd May 2016 at 10:17:04
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