Equestrian Center Tips

     To start an equestrian center, you must have 20 days of seniority. Some players just buy the Business Key, which costs 2 passes. Anyways, once you create an equestrian center, you start out with 25,000 equus for it. You should spend all this equus on fertile meadows, 6 boxes, 10 carrot seeds, and 6 wheat seeds. Make sure to buy 1,000 droppings (that's the maximum amount of droppings you can buy per day), then turn them into manure, and sell the manure. By this, you'll earn 1,600 everyday, and in 10 days, you can earn 16,000 equus! Make sure to host some competitions, and make the cost of your boarding 10 equus a day. That way, many people will board. Set up the forum, and start some interesting discussions. You should also hire the full employment. An equestrian center should need no more than 1 farrier and saddler. Grooms are very useful, and you need 1 every 20 boxes. The horse riding instructor is need 1 for every 30 boxes.

Boxes:

You need bedding for your boxes. Try to buy straw bedding, and the best would be flax bedding. If your equestrian center is really low on equus, at least buy the wood chip bedding. A bad type of bedding is better than no bedding at all! Also, bedding increases your equestrian center's prestige. If you can, you should buy the bigger boxes, as they create more comfort, and therefore, will raise your center's prestige, too. You may have to repair a box if its wear and tear reaches 75% or above. Once it reaches 100%, the box will be destroyed. You need to pay 200 equus to fix it.

Box 1* - 12 cm²
Box 2** - 16 cm²
Box 3*** - 18 cm²

Box 1* - 630 equus

 

Box 2** - Price varies (around 30,000 equus)

Box 3*** - Price varies (around 190,000 equus) or 1 pass

Meadows: 

Meadows are a very important part of your equestrian center. You can gain a lot of equus just growing and selling various types of crops. Try to buy the biggest meadows, and the higher the fertility, the better! It would be very helpful to get a scarecrow, the cost of it varies from time to time, or you can purchase it with 1 pass. Scarecrows increase the productivity of the plant by 50%! You will also need some meadows for pastures for your equestrian centers. If you lay your meadow fallow, it will gain fertility. But a meadow that wasn't fertile to start will never reach a fertility of 100%. If you lay it fallow:

In Summer: 3% increased

In Spring & Fall: 1% increased

In Winter: 0.2 increased

The greenhouse is also a meadow, and you can grow any crop in any season, except for pass crops & apples. You can only have 1 greenhouse in your inventory, and you cannot put scarecrows on it. It itself is a medium sized fertile meadow. The price of it in equus varies, or you can buy it for 1 pass. 

Small sized meadow: 3 acres

Medium sized meadow: 6 acres

Large sized meadow: 15 acres

Small Fertile Meadow - 2,700 equus

Small Meadow - 1,000 equus

Medium Fertile Meadow - 5,100 equus

Medium Meadow - 1,850 equus

Large Fertile Meadow - (around 295,000 equus) or 1 pass

Large Meadow - 3,500 equus

Crops:

There are 8 types of crops:

Carrot seeds - Carrot seeds - 9 days until maturity (can be grown in Spring) - 200 equus

Wheat seeds - 9 days until maturity (can be grown in Summer) - 150 equus

Apple seeds -  can be harvested every Fall once you plant them - 50 equus

Barley seeds - 10 days until maturity (can be grown in Spring) - 150 equus

Oat seeds - 11 days until maturity (can be grown in Spring) - 150 equus

Flax seeds - 8 days until maturity (can be grown in Spring) - 250 equus

Turnip seeds - 7 days until maturity (can be grown in Summer) - 500 equus

Pass seeds - 30 days until maturity (can be grown in Fall with Large Fertile Meadow and natural manure) - 800 equus 

Side note: They always lead to 1 pass.

Fertilizer:

To reduce growth time for your crops, you can use fertilizer. There are 3 different types: 

1* Fertilizer - 70 equus (reduces growth time by 1 day)

2** Fertilizer - 120 equus (reduces growth time by 2 days)

Manure - 150 equus (reduses growth time by 3 days) 

Side note: It actually says 380 equus, but when you make it out of droppings, you only spend 150 equus.

Competitions: 

Competitions depend on what your equestrian center's specialty is. 

Classical riding disciplines: 

Races (galloping & trotting)

Dressage

Cross Country

Show Jumping

You will need to buy a race track if you want to host races. There are 3 different types of race tracks:

Small race track - 20,000 equus 

It can host 1 race per day

Medium race track - 40,000 equus

It can host 3 races per day

Large race track - 80,000 equus

It can host 7 races per day

Western riding disciplines: 

Barrel Racing

Cutting

Trail Class

Reining

Western Pleasure

You can create every competition for free except for cutting. Cutting competitions require calves. The bigger the herd of your calves, the higher the level of your competition. There are 2 types of calves: 

Braford calf - 100 equus

Longhorn calf - 900 equus

All calves bought before the 20th days of each month will leave its herd on the first of the following month.

Employees: 

There are 4 types of employees, and each 1 does a different job for your equestrian center!

The groom looks after your horses. You will need 1 day of seniority before you become 1. Grooms also change the bedding of your horses. You need 1 groom for every 20 boxes.

The horse riding instructor pays for the lessons. You will need 1 for every 30 boxes. You will need 10 days of seniority before you can become 1.

An equestrian center should hire no more than 1 farrier. It provides horseshoes, regardless of the number of horses boarding in that equestrian center. You can become a farrier once you reach 40 days of seniority. 

The saddler provides saddles and bridles for your equestrian center. You need no more than 1 saddler in 1 equestrian center. You can become a saddler once you have 120 days of seniority.

Showers:

A horse with a shower uses 10% less energy than a horse without one. You may only equipped 1 shower per box, and if the box is somehow destroyed, you'll need to remove the shower first, or else the shower will be gone too! They usually cost around 185,000 equus, or you can buy it with a pass.

Lessons:

The price of your lessons vary from the prestige of your equestrian center and the skills of dressage the horses possess, sometimes they will be very low, and sometimes they'll be a little higher!