A late Halloween update

Good evening!

Zomg, I am over the moon right now because I passed my driving exam several hours ago and I can now officially conquer roads cx But enough about this, it's been a while again just beacuse I have been lazy...Halloween was like ages ago, but I still haven't updated you guys about my this year's halloween catch on Howrse, what a shame! So here ya go!

Thanks to the events I obtained one of each customisation Halloween BM item(except Magic Hat) and also, I bought the new Double-Sided Medallion. If you wanna see which horses got which coats, I have the links here c:
http://www.howrse.com/elevage/fiche/?id=49066049
http://www.howrse.com/elevage/fiche/?id=49331820
http://www.howrse.com/elevage/fiche/?id=49574369

I also got a Hestia's gift thanks to the Halloween event and thanks to this, uni filly Majesty was born. I also won one in the next event, the cards, and twin uni fillies were born, named Sweet Girl and Semilly. Three horned beauties in a short time, woop woop!

My Trakehners reached 4000 GP! The first one to be born was Eagle's Heart with 4246.04 GP! It seems as if it was just yesterday when I bragged about my Trakes reaching 3000...I hope 5000 will come fast!

I haven't done a Yay or Nay for ages, so have one of the recent cards event!

In today's Yay or Nay...

The Celtic Cards 

Pros:

• Really easy: just scratch the cards and receive a prize.

• To earn the cards you don't need to do much work.

• You can get great BM items.

• You can buy cards from flash sales.

 Cons:

• If you want to trade a duplicate card, you need to pay.

• Even if you gather all the cards of the same color, they won't stop coming.

•  Diamond and gold cards are rather rare.

• Flash sales cards are very expensive and so are cards bought with passes.

The verdict:

The event is really easy and doesn't require almost no work at all to gain prizes, bt it has it's own disadvantages. This is a Tie.

That's all folks, have a nice day!

BHF

New personal heights!

Hello from the other side!

I must have called a thousand times...and I finally came! Another two months have passed as fast as a flying eagle! School has begun and life has gone busy, plus trainings, plus driving school...I have so much to do! In the other hand tho, I have many updates to tell you about! Ready? Set. Go!

My Arabians broke the 5000GP border! I already have 5 foals with 5000+GP! They are Amulet, Amazon, Nevada, Artaria, and, born today, Avada. It's a delight to see how long way my Arabians have come! If I remember right, I begun with Blackbird, whose GP is 1334 and it took me 3 years to get here! Well, it's a long time, but I've had many months off the game too, ya know. Anyways, I am already working towards 6000, which should be a good Grand Prix horse's GP ;)

Also, I've managed to complete my Arabian coats collection! I won't stop breeding them tho! I've come so far and I have already spent so much resources on them, I don't wanna stop here :)

After several years, at long last, Wandering horses event returned in September and of course I was eager to take part. I managed to have 8 of them to visit me. They all had very high skills, over 10 000GP. However, not all of them gave me tons of wins. The best one I had was Red Admiral, because she won me my first ever rosette! I was so delighted to see that a horse that I bred won a rosette! Here are some picture proofs, I am not bluffing :P

Thanks to Red Admiral I currently have two rosette trophies too, but unfortunately, they won't last long, unless I win another rosette.

Also, I bred my first 6000+GP horse! Capricorn gave me Cadillac, a future star! I do hope she'll serve me well!

That's all for this time! I hope I'll come back here soon :P

See you!
BHF

A delightful post!

Howdy, howdy, my dear howrsers!

I don't know why, but I feel so delighted today, I really have no reason: temperature is pretty warm outside, but there's no sign of sun. I guess it's because I had a blast last weekend with my friends on a little road trip. My weekends tend to go Howrse-free, but I am happy to return there on Mondays c: So, here's some things going on at BHF's (bigger than) small stable...

I got the Drum horse from the maze event, but it turned out to be a stallion...I still decided to keep him and buy a mare once their prices drop, so I could complete the color collection. This little nugget's name is Blake c:

I wasted some money on a skiller - again! But this time I bought a higher skilled Trakehner stallion for the days when there are no 5000+ GP coverings for my Trakehner mares, he could give me some great foals. The stallion's name is Gabriel and he is already fully trained and I gave him a Poseidon's pack(tbh it looks cool on him lol, I don't have any other non-GA horses with Poseidon's gear). I am guessing he is not much of a talent, because when I finished training he had about 3000 skills. I've managed to raise it to 4000 with competitions and rides, I am still halfway, but I hope he will reach 5000.

I decided that I will keep non-immortal GA horses only if their coats and backgrounds 'rock'. It means I will stop caring for them one day, but I won't sell them nor give them a Philospher's stone. This'll help me get the Golden Apple collection throphy and give lots of pretty horses to my stable c: Today, I sorted some out and safe from certain death are: Fiery Kid, Illusions, Midir, Blue Mamba, The City Back and Tanya. I also moved some old elementals and Bewitched Pumpkin horses there. I have many others I could move there, but they are still at a young age and can contribute to my breeding farm.

The Magic Potions event is currently on. Nothing impressive, nothing boring, it's kind of in-the-middle event imo. I'll just keep playing and see if I can get something exciting...

A little reminder for all of you there reading this! If you want to know right away when I have posted something new here, follow me on Twitter @myhowrse. Sometimes I may even bring up a few discussions there, so don't hesitate to reply and tell me about your opinions.

And last, but not least, a little eye candy for you c: I added some fancy backgrounds to some GA horses today, go and see them yourself --->Evana(Trakehners), Narcissa(From foundations)(This coat is my all time favorite!!)

See you next time!
Your BHF

10 000 views!

Good evening, dear Howrsers!

Yes, we have 10 000 views! Thank you everyone who has contributed and takes time to read my blog! Ah yes, now we can cut the cake...

Hellboy has finished his first week at GP! No new records and nothing impressive, but here are the results:

Cross-country: 1651st
Trot race: 1070th
Show jumping: 963rd BEST!
Dressage: 1156th
Gallop race: 1345th

As you see, he was the best at show jumping and I decided to start sending him to SJ competitions from now on, instead cross-country. And he got several 1st placings already, so I think I made the right decision :)

My overall placing for this week's GP is 328th. I don't remember if I've had better placings or not, but this one is pretty good actually, isn't it?

Today, Kept Secret gave birth to her first offspring! It's a crossbred Lusitano colt, 5469.22 GP, with a fab name: The Whiskey Bandit c: Inborn skills 1104.78, this colt is pure joy! I hope he will serve well for me in the future! *fingers crossed*

That's it for this time, I hope to see you here next time also c:
Your BHF

Thrills and spills

Hello dear howrsers!

My summer has been a  jam packed one, I've even had a two week hiatus from Howrse, because my laptop broke down :( Now they are fixing it and I have a old PC for use that is almost as old as me lol, but works like clockwork! Talking about age, I celebrated my 18th birthday recently! So, bear in mind that when you want to message me, kids, you are talking with an (not-so)adult :P

Tanya has given me one more skiller: Ravensdale. He is her last foal, because Tanya's health is already decreasing and I don't want to risk losing foals. But Kept Secret is in foal for the first time! I bred her with best available horse(a purebred Lusitano) on Howrse and let's see what comes out! c:

Opal has turned out to be a superb trail class horse! He always comes back with golden throphies! I hope that one day, when I have skilled him enough, he will earn me a rosette or two c: #bhfdreams

A skiller that I once bought, Triton, has been standing in my stable doing nothing. I have tried to sell him, but my prices seem to be too high oops. Anyways, he is available, just mail me with an offer!

The maze event is back, but this time it's simpler: you can move more than ever before and instead of one maze there are many small mazes with prizes at the end of each. I am currently aiming for the new Drum horse c: I even found a vintage Apple and used it on Fine Design, who is now a flaxen chestnut Akhal-Teke of the old version c:

It's Hellboy's first week at the Grand Prix! Fingers crossed everyone! I hope he does well and manages to break my personal placing records! Current record is 720-something held by Fusion at trot race.

I have nothing else to write currently, but you can check out some horses with new coats I have managed to put on c: See them yourself ---> Fine Design, Taeyon, Attila(Ow's Helios' ray background).

See ya!
BHF

BHF is you ded??

Holy moly, it's been 2 months already! Phew! I am sorry for being away for so long, I had a though last period in school, but now it is officially over and the summer holidays are here! Weeheee! More time for blog! I've always had time for Howrse and I'll tell you what has happened c:

Tanya is retired and is currently "working" as a broodmare and besides Capricorn, she has given me 4 more future Grand Prix horses: mares Mrs. Dalloway and Fine Desing, and stallions Fair Play and Taeyon. They all look promising and I am in the middle of training them. Capricorn is doing nicely in comps and seems to exceed the most in cross country.

I wasted some money and bought a new skiller: Hellboy, a purebred KWPN stallion. I have already fully trained him and he has started competing. I also gave him a Golden Apple today that should soon retire c:

Btw, from now on, all my GP horses will have an Apollo's Lyre.

Currently, Pinata event is on and I am just playing and walking along, I won't get anything because I don't want to waste my passes c: Click onto my pinata and I'll click yours! In these two months a board game event has also been on, but I didn't earn anything special from there, so no news here...

But today, BHF made history...the Golden Fleece promotion is on and when I scratched it...*tears of happyness* I got Opal! It took me five years after Jade to get a divine! Yass, thank you lord of luck, I had already lost faith in you! But I have to admit he is kind of not so great, because I basically only have a bigger chance to get diamonds when I feed him carrots and that's just about it. At least I can add him skills using diamonds, this thing is pretty interesting, but it also means I will waste more diamonds and have less for promotions. Oh well, it's a two sided thing, like every good thing in this world. And a little picture proof for you too c:

This is it for this time, I hope I'll see you guys again soon :P
BHF

Great horses for 1000? Yes please!

Hiya, fellow Howrse breeders!

Last week has brought excellent warm and sunny weathers to my place and I can't help but just hang around outside. This is what real spring is like! Despite this I am still sitting with Howrse in the evenings, oh no, you can't get ride of me so easily... ;3

You know that button, where you can switch off the equestrian centers' letters? Well, I have never switched it off and now it finally paid off! One center's owner was quitting and she sent the boarders of her center an absolute best deal: she was selling off all her horses with 1000 equus, no matter their value. And as fast as a bolt I asked her to reserve two horses for me and here they are: Silver Cosette and Macbeth! Both have GA coats, Cosette's coat is retired! Both have also won rosettes and have a ton of BM items. I wouldn't say I reached the absolute gold mine, because they both don't have the skills needed to win rosettes today anymore, but this is something that a gold mine would look like if they had higher skills :P They are doing well and winning competitions and both are immortal. I think it was a great deal, because, honestly, when did you last get a immortal RC rosette winner for 1000??

Kept Secret has been bolded and is trying out the GP this week. She is far from a great potential, but at least I get a few bucks from this :P Will let you know how she did!

I started playing early this morning and when I left for five minutes and came back, a new event had started and it is...the cards! Yay! My fave event! Puzzles have very juicy rewards this time, but this also made me doubt: will they be hard to get? If I could at least have that Bonus pack, I would be a happy camper, so I hope that this time my work without passes is gonna pay off.

And to the final point, some pics of my new horses and their stats c:

Silver Cosette

She has a Nyx pack and coat has 316 copies left.
Macbeth. I caught the bolt animation lol :D

11 rosettes, but what surprises me is that he doesn't have Poseidon's pack.

 I hope you liked this post, see you soon!

Regards,
BHF

A bit about inbreeding

Hey!

It's been weeks again! It's just I don't really want to write here when I don't have "the pegasus" with me, otherwise the posts would have no spark in them :P So here we go...

Treasure Hunt began and yet again a big sigh when I saw the event. Again years of searching when I don't know the meaning of the word...why am I whining? Because actually I am enjoying that event. Somehow, one part of me finds this interesting. I would actually give this event 8/10, when Howrse releases the poll.

I have reached another big goal: my Trakehners reached 3000 GP! First one to be born with that number was Eiffel, he was followed by Enderman and Extraordinary, the latter already has 3300! Next goal is 4000 and I hope I will get there as fast as I reached 3000!

Now about a little mishap that happened to me...incest is kind of acceptable on Howrse, meaning that if you breed horses related to each other, it will not affect them in any different way than breeding non-related horses. I, however, still never breed closely related horses, so basically, none of my horses can't breed with each other because they descend from one mare.(E.g, all my Trakehners descend from Ebony, Tennessee Walkers from Garnet and so on. I won't breed e.g Trakehners with walkers, because they are of different breeds and I want to keep them pure. I hope you got it xD) But out of my own absent-mindedness I bred my uni Kismet to his own father Kiss Em and Leave Em and didn't notice until the very end of her pregnancy. Fortunately, the foal wasn't a uni, so I put him into SH. I don't really want to keep an inbred horse around, he wasn't a high skilled horse or anything special. RIP Kenny :c

I often see GP breeders inbreeding to get winners and it seems to work. Even my best horses that I haven't bred have been inbred, for example Amarita. Here I encourage you to comment your opinions about this topic, I am very intrigued to know them :)

My EC giveaway has been extended until the end of April, so feel free to enter! And don't forget to share the banner, posting it here once more, just in case :P

That's just about it! See you next time!
BHF

My finest horses!

Hello!

I can already smell the spring in the air here and I am eagerly waiting for summer...as we all do I hope! But let's get to the point...

The Championship. They brought it back. I shrugged out loud when I saw it. But actually, this time I am playing it. I like that they added many different mini games for getting bonuses and basically this keeps me going. I have done my choices visely and I have got much more 1st placings this time. I would give it a 5/10.

I extended my EC giveaway registration time! If you haven't already, go and register for your chance to win amazing prizes! You've got nothing to lose!

This time I decided to present you with *drum roll* BigHorseFreak's finest! Here, I will introduce you my best horses and their achievements! Here will be listed horses that I currently own, I don't count in horses who have passed. Hope you like it c:

 Best stud:

GreyAbstract

He was my first Shagya Arabian foal. I still love his GA coat and when it went retired, I made him immortal. He has been offering coverings throughout his life. He has had 132 coverings and counting! None of the stallions I've had have ever met so many mares lol :P

Best broodmare:

Blackbird

I bought this near purebred Arabian mare from another breeder. She had already produced a bunch of foals and was trained when I got her. She still continues to be an amazing competitior. She produced great foals, but since the skills have gone higher I have no longer bred her, because she can't give foals with high skills anymore. She has had 29 coverings, but has more offsprings, because of some twins she has given birth to.

Best competitor:

Blackbird

This title also goes out for Blackbird, based on 1st placings. I have several other great competitors, but since this mare is immortal and still wins, she has the most winnings so far and counting :) She has won 168 times.

Best Grand Prix horse:

Fusion

I have just recently started concentrating on GP, but so far the best has been this purebred KWPN stallion, not bred by me. He goes best in trot races and his best placing in GP is 700-something. He still is in a fair age and I hope he has what it takes to climb higher.

So this is it for this time! See you soon!

BHF 

All those fancy pictures!

Good afternoon!

I don't have any ideas for a good intro so let's just begin :D

I changed my avatar! Just added BigHorseFreak in a fancy font onto a palomino horse picture and there it is c: Cute, isn't it? ;D I won't change my blogger profile pic tho, you can still look at Michael Jackson's Dirty Diana cover here :P

 

Fancy af

 

I am holding a Grand Giveaway in my equestrian center's forum! In the past I've had small prizes usually, but this time I took a deep breath and agreed with myself to make a few sacrifices...tho I have more of these items in store lol, trying to be generous here or what :P Entrances are open for everyone, so be sure to enter and have a go! And if you can, please spread the word with this banner, I haven't got any participators(nor visits) so far, largely due to Howrse's new rule, that advertising trough messages to boarders is prohibited. Thank you!

More fancyness...

Lottery, my favorite event, has begun again! I have been lucky to have gathered tons of tickets and the biggest price so far has been a Golden Apple c: Narcissa got that one, she has a super cute palomino uni coat now! Also, I got another Golden Apple when I finished the Great Challenge, but as I went to use it, I accidentally forgot to tick the box that I use a GA from my inventory and I lost a precious pass x.x But I think it was not so bad at all, cause the coat I got went retired today and it has less than 200 copies, woop! So I got altogether 3 new coats in one day, not bad at all! Here, have pics of them :3 I am really sorry, I couldn't find better pics, so avoid enlarging them if you don't want to get your eyes burned by all those pixels...


Capricorn wearing her retired pass coat...
 
Evana's coat.
 
I love Narcissa's pwetty palomino ass *w*

I just counted them up...I have exactly 30 GA horses, 4 of them are RCs and a handful of others are soon-to-be-RC. Quite a lot already, eh?

This time I got a lot of pictures here, woops...Anyways, thank you for stopping by and see you in the next post!

Sincerely,
BHF

SH confessions

Hello!

It's been a while! I've had the thoughest cycle in school and very demanding finals, but I have always found spare minutes(and hours, woops) for Howrsing around, so here is a little summary.

Last week I entered both Tanya and Fusion in GP every day. To summarize it up, Fusion is doing better than Tanya, the latter only gets better placings in cross country. This week I have only entered Fusion for GP, will tell you about the results next time :) Last week I managed to hop to 264th place in the general GP ranking. I hope Fusion takes me higher!

I am the kind of breeder who very rarely uses Safe Haven. I try to sell any unwanted horses and when they won't go with even the lowest price, then the very last option is SH. But today I had to make an ugly exception to pass a guest in the Great Challenge, where I had to put a horse into SH. I didn't have any I could send there, so I bought a cheap crossbred foal from the market and put it into SH. Of course I feel guilty, but this is just game, BHF...just a game...

I noticed that I haven't talked about any tips or had discussions lately, I promise I will try to do them more often from now on! I tried to do one today, but I ended up deleting it, because it didn't come up so good. When I happen to get great ideas, I will come and make a new post!

Sorry for yet another short post! I always have great ideas, but once I get here, they are all gone...I should try writing them down...

See you!
BHF

Short GP update

Hey hey!

Valentines day is approaching fast and what are you planning to do on this lovey-dovey day? Well, I am planning to eat pizza and play Howrse. Single life rules! But let's see what has happened on Howrse...

I entered Tanya into Grand Prix every day durning this week, here are the results. I will also add other horses' results:

Cross-country:
Tanya 889th

Trot race:
Fusion 773rd(New record!)
Tanya 1773rd

Show jumping:
Tanya 1507th

Dressage:
Tanya 1413rd

Gallop race:
Tanya 1634th

To summarize it up, she was best in cross country, which is actually quite surprising, because in non-GP competitions she is best at gallop and trot races. But I'll try again next week and may be enter Fusion too in all disclipines. Since I participated every day in GP this week, I also got placed in the overall board. I was 350th and I am pleased with the result c:

I am sorry, guys, but this is it for this time, I am so tired today that I just don't have any energy left to type...
See you next time!
BHF

Sad vs. happy

Good evening fellow Howrsers!

Today was a bit of a frustration day to me. Sometimes, we all have them, don't we? But I also had some positive stuff too, so no reason to get depressed here! Read on to find out c:

I was just randomly checking some crossbreds I had bred and sold on and discovered this...
(Click on the pictures for a bigger version)

 Nice to see that my pwetty Terra Cota is being taken care of nicely c:

Hang on...

See this? 312 wins in dressage! Oh my god! I've sold a complete champion! Oh why, BHF, WHYY?! Let's say I don't have the eye for the champions, but I am pretty sure that it is almost impossible for anyone to tell if a horse is going to be a great-ass competitor or not. At the end, I am actually over the moon that I have managed to breed such an amazing horse! I think I have not done it before, so wohooo! :D

Oh and Terra Cota is daughter of Spectra, my retired throphy horse!

Second thing that frustrated me today was the Titan's challenge. I paid 20 diamonds for this and failed at level 3 to only receive a Helios Ray. And I was there like... 

 Why did I even bother?

Now, off to the happier news :P Fusion set a new record in the Grand Prix! He finished 822th this Tuesday in trot race! I have lately taken him to rides only to get more skills and seems like it helps! Another step closer to 500! (Though I doubt he will ever reach that point, I may need a better horse)

Amarita's first offsprings have completed training and have drifted off to competitions world! I have to admit, they do really well, just like their mother! I am especially proud of Alexander, who has proved to be Amarita's best offspring so far! I hope they all will be as or even more amazing!

That's it for today! I planned to do a Yay or Nay on the Maze event but...next time, please? :D

Anyways, have a good day!

BHF

Throphy horse madness!

Hey there!

Phew, it's been quite a while! I've had great christmas and new years! How about you? I sure hope yours were great aswell! :) Anyways, let's get back to Howrse business...

I have developed a throphy horse madness, cause I have bred another potential throphy horse! I had Spectra, a crossbred mare, who is now retired, but was a good throphy horse once and I thought, why not get a horse of the same caliber out of her before she dies? To be honest, when I still bred crossbreds, she was one of my best mares and all her offsprings were great, but I sold them. Now, I bred her with a stud, who had the highest GP on the breeding list. The outcome is a KWPN cross mare Kept Secret with 4239.07 GP, over 100 inborn skills and 366 stars. She has just started training and my hopes are high!

A little update on my other throphy hunters: Fusion is either 912th or 911th on Grand Prix, no other placings really :P I think he doesn't really have the things needed to go higher, but still, he brings in throphies and now wears a vintage apple coat of the Howrse old version's dun Marwari c: Tanya has started competing. She excels in all disclipines, but is better in galloping and trotting races. To be honest, she catches first places better than Fusion. I still haven't worked out her "best of best" disclipine with what we could go to the Grand Prix, but she may also just participate in them all c:

Tree expedition ended a while ago, but let me tell you that I didn't get neither of the divines I had the chance of getting. That is quite frustrating, because I have never been so close to getting them before. But oh well, I'll keep trying! Today started The Maze and my first thought was: not again! x.x Although, they have made it a little easier this time. But I'll give my best to not spend passes and diamonds there :P Amarita is my companion on this journey, I hope we'll do well!

Listing here horses that I have currently for sale. You may always mail me with your offers and reservations!
Colt Brahman/Purebred trakehner/2689.65 GP/Direct sale 5000 equus NEGOTIABLE!
Filly Excuse Me/Purebred trakehner/2789.82 GP/Direct sale 5000 equus NEGOTIABLE!
Filly Calendula/Purebred Hanoverian/1227.05 GP/Auction starting price 1000 equus.

That's it for now!
Looking forward to seeing you here again c:
BHF