VHR help

I’ve put together a few things that I thought might come in handy. Please feel free to message me if there is something I have missed/not covered and I’ll put it up.

 

 

What does each type of shoe do?

Protective Shoes	+10 Surefootedness +5 Movement
Traction Shoes	+1 Western Level
Light Shoes	+4 Speed
Corrective Shoes	+20 Surefootedness
Weighted Shoes	+10 Movement
Padded Shoes	+5 Endurance
Draft shoes	+5 Strength
Titanium Horse Shoes	+5 Speed

 

What type of tack do I use?

Western	Saddle #5, Bridle #2, Curb Bit, Saddle Pad, Whip, Spurs
Eventing	Saddle #3, Bridle #4, Snaffle Bit, Saddle Pad, Whip, Spurs
Jumping	Saddle #3, Bridle #4, Snaffle Bit, Saddle Pad, Whip, Spurs
Sport	Saddle #3, Bridle #4, Snaffle Bit, Saddle Pad, Whip, Spurs
Dressage	Saddle #3, Bridle #4, Snaffle Bit, Saddle Pad, Whip, Spurs
Endurance	Saddle #2, Bridle #4, Snaffle Bit, Saddle Pad, Whip, Spurs
Racing	Saddle #4, Bridle #4, Snaffle Bit, Saddle Pad, Whip, Spurs
Driving	Harness, Snaffle Bit, Whip
Gaited	Saddle #1, Bridle #4, Snaffle Bit, Saddle Pad, Whip, Spurs
Halter	Bridle #3, Snaffle Bit, Whip
Bronco	Whip, Spurs

 

 

What’s ‘stat maxing’?

A horse that is stat maxed will have all of its actual stats over 200 (don’t confuse the actual stats with the stat %). All of the stats include:

•        Strength (should be 200 or above)

•        Intelligence (should be 200 or above)

•        Speed (should be 200 or above)

•        Endurance (to be truly stat maxed, this stat has to of reached its ‘red letter cap’ which varies from breed to breed. The red letter cap is always over 200)

•        Surefootedness (should be 204, or above if shoes are used)

•        Movement (should be 205, or above if shoes are used)

•        Disciplines (should be 150, but can be raised higher)

 

How many horses of one colour should there be to consider a colour rare?

Extremely Rare-

1-3 (if there is only one then we refer to them as being 1-of-a-colour or 1-of-a-kind)

Rare-

4-5

Semi rare-

6-10

Custom colour-

11+

yes, all of them ARE custom colours but when there is 11+ of the colour then you can’t really refer to it as rare…so we just call it custom coloured :)

 

What’s ‘rolling’?

Rolling is the term given to a training process where you get a horse's stats % to a certain point where the stat title will change to the next, better stat. Look here to view the rank of the stat titles

http://www.virtualhorseranch.com/new_stat.html

 

What’s ‘tweaking’?

Tweaking refers to the training technique where the trainer raises a horse’s stats in order to get it ready for competing.

 

What’s ‘levelling’?

Levelling is the term given to raising the training level that a horse has. The highest level that any horse can reach is 25 (traction shoes with +1 level for western horses)

 

How do I put a picture on my horse?

Go to your horse’s page and under all the info about it’s parents, breed, age ect there is a text box with ‘Image Link:’  written on it’s left and to it’s right there is a button saying ‘add/change image’. Enter the URL of the picture you want to put on the horse and click the button. When the page refreshes your horse will have its new piccie!

 

What’s ‘BC’?

BC stands for birth capped or breed capped. This refers to the highest possible stat titles that a horse can be born with. Go to the 'useful links' page for a link to the BC list on the VHR forum.

 

What is ‘optimum age’?

Optimum age refers to the prime age of a horse for a certain event. You can start competing a horse before this age, and continue after but it will be best at this age. The following table will show the optimum ages for each training type.

 

Training Type	Age
Western (Barrel Racing)	11
Western (Pleasure)	16
Western (Reining)	11
Dressage	13
Bronco	7
Driving (Dressage)	13
Driving (Marathon)	11
Driving (Cones)	13
Endurance	10
Sport (Foxhunting)	10
Gaited	14
Halter Showmanship	8
Racing (Harness Racing)	11
Racing (Sprint Racing)	5
Racing (Steeple chasing)	9
Track Racing	5
Show Jumping	12
Sport (polo), western (trail), gymkhana events	Any age

 

What is a ‘breed type’?

A breed type is basically the horses build. There is draft, sport, stock, gaited, warmblood, pony, show and feral.  

 

What should I train my horse in?

Try to train your horse in the training type which will allow the horse to be entered in shows matching is breed type which will in turn give the horse a bonus. Refer to the training guide section of the VHR help articles to read more about these bonuses.

http://www.virtualhorseranch.com/trainingguide.html

 

Breed type	Training type
Stock	Western
Draft	Harness Racing, Driving
Sport	Endurance, show jumping, Steeplechasing, Harness Racing, sport
Gaited	Show
Warmblood	Dressage, show jumping,
Pony	Driving, Halter (Showmanship Class)
Show	Halter (Showmanship Class), Show
Feral	Bronco

 

 

 

 

 

  

What’s a ‘foundation’ horse?

Foundation horses are the ones with ‘unknown’ parents. Foundation pairs of every breed can be purchase from the goodie page with real money or you can pay someone with VHR cash to buy it for you. Foundation horses typically have pore stats how ever the stats improve rapidly over generations and can usually reach birth cap at about the 3^rd generation. Foundation horses are largely valued because they can be used to produce brand new blood lines. Belgians, Arabians and Prezwalskis can be caught by sponsors (each sponsor can catch 6 ‘wild horses’ the previous three breeds described are the only ones they can catch) and don’t really have much value due to their readily available purchase.

 

What’s an ‘NPC rider’?

An NPC rider is a rider that you purchase to put on your horses at shows. It gives your horse extra points, but only if it’s the correct rider.

 

What’s ‘cross breeding’?

Cross breeding is producing a foal from two different breeds in order to create a new breed. Ie: crossing an American Quarter Horse with a Thoroughbred will result in an Appendix Quarter Horse

This link here will show you what breed you will get from a cross

 

What’s a ‘custom colour’?

A custom colour is a colour ordered off the goodie dye page, do not confuse this as a rare colour. A rare colour is often custom ordered but a custom colour isn’t always rare. A custom colour can be purchased for $8 (US) through the goodie page, you have to choose a horse to put it on and with in a few days the horse will receive its colour. No one can obtain the colour unless you let it out through breedings. Some players will  buy you a goody dye (as it is also know) in return for play cash, art, horses, breedings, training and lots more. People often auction these off on the auction section of the main forum.

 

How many horses of one colour should there be to consider a colour rare?

Extremely Rare-

1-3 (if there is only one then we refer to them as being 1-of-a-colour or 1-of-a-kind)

Rare-

4-5

Semi rare-

6-10

Custom colour-

11+

yes, all of them ARE custom colours but when there is 11+ of the colour then you can’t really refer to it as rare…so we put call it custom coloured :)

 

How can I tell how many horses of the colour exist?

Go to the market place and type in the exact colour in the ‘colour box’ and then click ‘search’. At the top in little blue font it will say ‘x Results found’ the x will obviously be a number so if there are 3 of the colour it will say 3 Results found. There is also a custom colour list on the forum, go to the search on the forum and type custom colour list (make sure you select the ‘Search for all terms’ and the topic should pop up. If you can’t find it ask someone :)

 

What's a 'block colour'?

A block colour was a holiday gift (or veteran award as they are seldom called) given to the sponsor players one year. It’s a dye that can be put on a horse and where the horse’s colour is displayed a little colourful square or block will appear in its place. These are the block colours that can be found floating around

  

What breed can sponsors catch?

For every sponsor account that is created and or renewed the ranch owner has the choice to catch 6 ‘wild horses’ these are foundation horses but only Arabians, Belgians and Prezwalskis can be caught. These do not have to same value as foundation horses off the goodie page so don’t get sucked into paying huge amounts for them.

 

How do I cure West Nile Virus?

There are two ways you can do this but I find this way the easiest, they might sound rather odd but trust me, they work! You may need to get a sponsor to do it for you; I don’t mind doing it for free.

Train your horse in something that will exhaust it (often teamwork does the job), you will probably need to train it in the discipline 6 times, you will find that the exhaustion will over ride the virus. Now, use a cure (you can buy them off the market, some times they are expensive or take for ever to find…that’s why I suggest you get a sponsor to do it for you as they can get them straight away with their vet skills) and fix the exhaustion!

Note: if your horse’s endurance is 200+ then you will need to change it’s diet to 0/0/0/0 in order to exhaust it

don't forget to vaccinate ALL of your horse's to stop them from getting the virus

 

 

What do the following abbreviations/acronyms mean? (all are in alphabetical order)

(the following are general)

BC-birth cap

CFG-colour filly guarantee OR coloured foal guarantee

CCG-colour colt guarantee

BIN- Buy it now

SB- starting bid

HB- highest bid

MBI- minimum bid increase

VHR- Virtual Horse Ranch

VP-Virtual Pups

SBF-Sandbox Farms

ST- sponsor time

PS- Photoshop (it’s an art program)

 

(the following are breeds)

ACL- A Cowboys Legend

AA- Abeyan Arabian

ACD- American Cream Draft

AQH- American Quarter Horse

AWP- American Walking Pony

APQH-Appendix Quarter Horse

ABS- Aurora Beach Special

ARP- Australian Riding Pony

ASH- Australian Stock Horse

AWH- Australian Waler Horse

BSH- Brazilian Sport Horse

BRM- British Royal Mount

CP- Caspian Pony

CM- Cataphract Mount

CIP- Cayuse Indian Pony

CB- Cleveland Bay

CRH- Colorado Ranger Horse

CCA-Companion Calvaryhorse of Alexander

DO- Descendant of… the DO is followed by another letter as there are 5 ‘descendant of’ breeds Descendant of Comanche, Descendant of Man O War, Descendant of Marengo, Descendant of Mr Ed and Descendant of Pharlap

DH- Dread Horse

ECH- Egyptian Chariot Horse

FC- Florida Cracker

FT- French Trotter

GAS- Golden American Saddlebred

GHM-Golden Hoard Mongolian

GD- Gypsy Drum

GVH- Gypsy Vanner Horse

HP- Highland Pony

HA- Hispano-Arabe

HOH- Horse of Hades

HOTF- Horse of the Future

HOTS- Horse of the Samurai

IP-Icelandic Pony

IB- Immortal Balius

ID- Irish Draught

ISH- Irish Sport Horse

IT- Irish Thoroughbred

KMS- Kentucky Mountain Saddle

KBP- Kerry Bog Pony

KM- Kiger Mustang

KF- Kisber Felver

MM- Mangalara Marchador

MWH- Medieval Warhorse

MD- Miniature Donkey

MFT- Missouri Fox Trotter

MOG- Mount of Guenevere

NSH- National Show Horse

NF- Norwegian Fjord

OIS- Odins Ice Stead

PF- Paso Fino

PA- Persian Arabian or Polish Arabian, it’s used for both so if you see it, make sure you check the horses breed to be sure of which it is

PP- Peruvian Paso

POA- Pony of the Americas

QP- Quarter Pony

RH- Racking Horse

ROTK- Ride of the Knight

RMH- Rocky Mountain Horse

RD- Russian Don

RO- Russian Orlov

SB- Saddlbred

SE or Seg- Seglawi Egyptian

SF- Selle Francais

SA- Shagya Arabian

SP- Shetland Pony

SN- Spanish Norman

STB- Spanish Thoroughbred

SM- Swamp Moose

TWH- Tennessee Walking Horse

TSH- The Sherpa Horse

TB- Thoroughbred

TH- Tiger Horse or Trojan Horse

VSH- Vienna Show Horse

VH- Viking Horse

VHD- Vladimir Heavy Draft

WC- Welsh Cob

WP- Welsh Pony

WB-Warmblood (generally with a letter in front of the WB, ie AWB for American Warmblood)

 

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