1000 Dressage competitions

Good news. It can be done! I'm sure many of you are working hard towards completing the dressage objectives. The first level is pretty easy. The second is a bit trickier but the third set of objectives are a bit daunting to say the least - get 150 dressage competition wins and enter 1000 dressage comps! Click on the picture above to see the validation of objective 3 'Frequent Competitor'.

Now to get 150 wins you're going to need a really good horse. I entered my dressage comps with my fabulous Fresian 'Dress for Success' and my top Irish Hunter 'Natural Disasters'. Now because of the way dressage comps work, currently top Fresians have the best skills for this discipline: dressage, trot and gallop. Many of the dressage comps at the moment are for higher-skilled horses, but even if you don't have a very highly skilled horse, you can still get wins and most definitely, you can enter plenty of races.

A few days ago, these comps were really rare. A few would appear every 5 to 20 minutes. But you had to be quick as they would all go within about 60 seconds. It was pretty stressful! Happily now though, more and more people are setting up dressage events for us all to enter so you should find enough races to keep you busy.

And of course, as you complete the objectives, your win some nice prizes including Made-to-Measure saddles, Boreas's Lunges and for entering 1000 comps (as well as three 'lunges') you win a Nyx pack. Lovely stuff. And don't forget that you earn money when you enter races. My Irish Hunter earned me 46,000 equus and my Freisian bought in 55,000 equus!

So get competing and good luck. You only have until October 13th 2010 remember.

Patsy

Dressage Snow horse

To coincide with the new dressage competitions and objectives, Howrse have bought out a brand new, shiny Snow horse. And this lovely fella is designed to excel in, of course - dressage.

At present, the only way of getting this new Snow horse is by purchasing 30 passes before 11pm GMT on 26th September 2010. Although I'm sure you'll be able to get your hands on one in other ways before too long.

OK, so what are those important statistics on Howrse's latest Divine?

Like all Snow's, this one has a total of 1500 skills, with 350 skills in it's top two disciplines and 200 skills in the rest. For the 'dressage' Snow - it has 350 skills in Dressage and 350 skills in Trot. It has 1000 GP (Genetic Potential) and is 46 'starred'. When you get your new Snow he will be 500 years old and, like all other Divine's he cannot breed. But unlike other Divines (not including the Cowbra) he cannot be sold. And finally, his name is in white - indicating he's a 'dressage' Snow. All Snow's have a colour-coded name to show you what their speciality is.

So, that's the new Snow horse. Hope you enjoy yours!

Patsy

Dressage Competitions and Objectives

Howrse have just introduced a brand new competition - dressage!

Currently you can only win a dressage arena for your EC by opening a lucky Horn of Lushness but we guess they'll be open to everyone eventually. This means there aren't many about at the moment, so they're quite hard to enter - but keep trying you will come across one eventually.

To be good at Dressage your horse has to have good skills in Dressage, Gallop and Trot. We've found that this makes the Friesian the best breed enter and get wins. Although high dressage Irish Hunters are also doing quite well.

Howrse have also introduced a new set of Dressage based objectives. Six in total:

Dressage Objective 1: Enter 10 Dressage Competitions. Reward: 20 apples
Dressage Objective 1: Win 1 Dressage Competition. Reward: 500e

Dressage Objective 2: Enter 100 Dressage Competitions. Reward: 1 made-to-measure saddle and 1 Boreas's Lunge
Dressage Objective 2: Win 20 Dressage Competitions. Reward: 5000e and 1 Boreas's Lunge

Dressage Objective 3: Enter 1000 Dressage Competitions. Reward: 3 Boreas's Lunge and 1 Nyx Pack
Dressage Objective 2: Win 150 Dressage Competitions. Reward: 3 Boreas's Lunge and 1 Atalante's Pack

You can win some really great stuff, so good luck and get entering those Dressage Competitions.

Lucy