So, I'm sure someone has done this before but I wanted to give it a go myself. I am starting with two sets of store bought Quarter Horses. One pair is on an upgraded account and will get only enter all shows. The second pair will be on a basic account and have hand picked shows. I want to see how much difference there is between basic and upgraded training. I thought it could be fun to watch and see and share my results here. So each week, after all of that weeks shows have run, I'll post their points here so that everyone can see how it goes. :)

Here are the accounts the horses are on:

Quarter Horse Experiment - Upgraded

Quarter Horse Experiment - Basic

*Special notes: The first major difference is basic accounts only get 70 shows a week vs. 80 shows that upgrades get. This also means they only get 28,000 entrance points vs. 32,000 entrance points.

Week 1:

Upgraded Mare: 97,980

Upgraded Stallion: 102,470

Basic Mare: 108,200

Basic Stallion: 101,180

Week 2:

Upgraded Mare: 189,630

Upgraded Stallion: 196,790

Basic Mare: 208,960

Basic Stallion: 171,880

Week 3:

Upgraded Mare: 292,440

Upgraded Stallion: 281,480

Basic Mare: 272,560

Basic Stallion: 253,620

Week 4:

Upgraded Mare: 382,610

Upgraded Stallion: 382,630

Basic Mare: 360,660

Basic Stallion: 336,400

Week 5:

Upgraded Mare: 488,140

Upgraded Stallion: 472,910

Basic Mare: 458,620

Basic Stallion: 446,640

Week 6:

Upgraded Mare: 584,530

Upgraded Stallion: 564,370

Basic Mare: 549,020

Basic Stallion: 545,100

Week 9:

Upgraded Mare: 927,800

Upgraded Stallion: 940,070

Basic Mare: 905,820

Basic Stallion: 905,600

Week 10:

Upgraded Mare: 1,041,040

Upgraded Stallion: 1,044,900

Basic Mare: 986,500

Basic Stallion: 997,960

Week 11:

Upgraded Mare: 1,138,490

Upgraded Stallion: 1,143,250

Basic Mare: 1,102,320

Basic Stallion: 1,107,020

Week 14:

Upgraded Mare: 1,393,860

Upgraded Stallion: 1,381,080

Basic Mare: 1,299,620

Basic Stallion: 1,310,360

Week 15:

Upgraded Mare: 1,513,830

Upgraded Stallion: 1,525,580

Basic Mare: 1,412,120

Basic Stallion: 1,421,860

Upgrade back-up colt: 116,061

Basic back-up colt: 108,698

Week 16:

Upgraded Mare: 1,607,520

Upgraded Stallion: 1,617,280

Basic Mare: 1,473,300

Basic Stallion: 1,472,760

End Results: 

Upgraded Mare: 1,818,120

Upgraded Stallion: 1,828,770

Basic Mare: 1,702,050

Basic Stallion: 1,684,190

Insom you could do hand picked upgraded? 

just gotta figure out what breed I wanna do... maybe I'll try it out with some of my aqhs

Insomnia - i can just do private shows for the 1 horse if you want to do hand picked per day.  I don't need anymore horses right now lol :)  so im good with just doing 1 horse for this experiment. 

Just want to put this out there as an option for anyone who is doing a pair and wants to enter them in private shows, I'd be willing to donate a couple of spots. For anyone that's interested, feel free to send a message my way! :D

my private horse shows run on the following days as well! :D

15 on Tuesday 

12 on Saturday

I'm curious about this too, thanks for sharing your process with us!

Thanks Oak - i am just going to do 1 AQH. don't have the time right now to committ to entering every day :)  

Would the shows still work if i do 15 one day and 12 the next? or should i keep it at 10 every day?

@fantasy - Yeah that's perfectly fine with me if you want to do that for the shows. :D I'm just here along for the ride and to provide a couple spots in my horse shows to whoever wants. 

I bought my AQH for my experament.  Should i make another forum with my results?  i am only going to do 1 horse instead of a pair.  So anyone with private shows let me know.  if i don't get enough during the week i will not supplement with other shows she just won't get trained....or other ideas if i don't get enough private shows during the week?

https://horsephenomena.com/horses.php?id=428210

I'm just gonna add mine in here so I don't make another form post lol cause I'm lazy, but here are my testers starting today 7/14/24.

https://horsephenomena.com/horses.php?id=428148

- will be strictly hand picked shows with the least entries possible

https://horsephenomena.com/horses.php?id=428147

- will be enter all, set on most expensive

week 1 results:

hand: 128,200

enter: 89,630

week 2 results:

hand: 251,430

Enter: 195,070

week 3 results:

hand: 400,390

Enter: 316,320

Week 4 results:

hand: 559,740

enter: 411,700

I loive that this is evolving into a group project! Can't wait to see what yall get!

looking for 30 more private shows if anyone has any they would donate for my pair

Farewell i am only going to do my expirament for 1month as private shows can get expensive.  

Whatever you do is helpful info :) I'm thinking I may do different styles with each new gen 

This week the upgraded pair soared ahead. The upgraded mare took the lead by gaining about 100k total points, upgraded stallion gained 84k, basic mare earned 63k, while the basic stallion stays in last place gaining 81k.

It's also interesting to note that placing 1st  - 5th in a show seemingly has little effect on points. Below I have listed the total places for each and you'll see this is not showing in the points.

Upgraded stallion: 12

Upgraded mare: 6

Basic stallion: 15

Basic mare: 10

Mine:

Points week 1

Mare: 226,580

5 First, 14 Second, 8 Third

Stallion: 226,190

15 Firsts, 2 Second, 16 Thirds, 

updated my scores, my hand picked show horse got around 30k more than the enter all high priced horse. I did bump them up to 100 energy this week so we will see how it goes.

I'm a little late getting up the results but here they are. Nothing too exciting. The upgraded pair remains in the lead and I don't think that will really change.

Insom - the difference between hand picked and enter all is pretty big!

Hand enter only is staying in the lead for me haha

and  updated again... hand enter only seems to be putting more points between them each week lol

Insom- that is crazy how much more it has. lol It's coming up on the heels of mine that are 2 weeks ahead.

(p.s. my week 5 results are up and the basic account are slowly lagging further behind the upgraded pair)

hand enter only horse seems to be roughly 140kish ahead now.