I noticed that there isn't much difference between retiring horses and deleting them. I would love to be able to keep some sort of record of the horses I've retired in my profile. I think it would be neat if there could be a seperate dropdown tab on your profile for horses you've retired. Each horse would be a link where you could access their information, but you wouldn't be able to edit anything anymore. So, their image, points, name, and everything would be frozen, but you could keep them on your account without having to feed them. I'd even be willing to pay for the option.

You're right, there isn't much difference! Only the waiting period and the age at which you can do it.

I think having a record of them listed somewhere is a good idea :). Maybe we can do that in our next big update! Just so you know, if you go to their specific page, you can still see some basic information about them, and don't have to maintain them! There's just no definitive list of them anywhere at the moment.

 I like this idea!

I'm the kind of person that wants to hoard all my retired animals on a retirement account. I like to see all my hard work and I'm not about to reduce it to a drop down list. I don't have to do anything except feed them. When I first buy/breed a horse, I feed it for 5000 days right away, so I won't have to worry about it for years. I'm ok with the above being an option, but I really don't want it to be compulsory for everyone because we wouldn't be able to do retirement breedings, which is no bueno.

I'm with Tana, however I will say I do retire a lot of those young horses that get stuck without training when I go on hiatus, and I'm not sure I want a reminder of them. lol

BUT I think for anyone who does retire horses a drop-down list would be a neat feature.

Definitely would not be compulsory.

I would love this! However, I would like to be able to edit which horses show on said list. As siib stated, I don't want a reminder of the horses I retire that don't make my point requirements! 

 This is a brilliant idea! I like it :D

I am not sure where I stand on this - I could see both sides.. IF I did decide to retire my horses instead of delete them, I think I would tend to go the dedicated account route. I personally like my page clean, neat and simple, the less tabs the better, BUT since most accounts have the same breed - I wouldn't be opposed to a separate section for the retired guys.   

But if you retire and then decide you wanna do a retirement breeding , that horse or dog that you wanma breed is no longer available to you , i like the idea  . but what kind of option would there be if you decide you want to retirement breed ? 

Since you don't actually retire the horses you want to do retirement breedings on right now., I would think that would still be the same. Just keep feeding the horse after it has aged past retirement age and don't do anything to it. If you just want the link and the record kept in your profile, then you can actually "retire" the horse. Maybe you could put in an extra option that would cost more to reverse the retirement if you wanted to do another breeding. So it would simply cost more than the regular retirement breeding for an overaged horse if you don't think ahead to the breedings you want to do. Or, we could leave it at if you permanently retire a horse, that's it. It's frozen the way you left it. There are probably other things that could be done for some sort of option there. I'm just not sure what would work best for everyone that wouldn't mess up the game's current inflation.

While there is really no difference in retiring per say, it does make a difference to some players on pedigrees, market values or just sentimental work. I think this would actually turn off players within the game or would, at the very least, make them not really want to renew a Upgrade if that would be bundled; like a couple on here, I also agree with Siib that I do not want a reminder of the horses that have been neglected/retired with poor points, especially since I've been on and off hiatus a couple of times or just have been inactive due to offline matters.

Although Sam says it will not be compulsory, I do still feel wary of this due to some of us doing retirement breedings - which is quite a big thing - and being unable. For some of us, we cannot do it RIGHT when they hit 19 - 20 years old, which is why we use the retirement breedings at 21 to make-up for this, if the horse was, as you put, in limbo/frozen and that its mandatory to breed before this state, I think a lot of players would just up and quit since that's simply too overwhelming to remember that, plus life stuff so we would have to re-initiate the lines again and hope we could it before that state. I also don't believe people would be willing to pay more for something like that in the Cash Shop than what is already currently being charged. I, personally, would rather pay the current price of the Retirement Breeding/potions than try and shuck extra for it; while this may be semi-easier since a bank interest was recently added to the system, I just don't really see how that would pan out for the favour of the breeders or the community.

Secondly, like Sam also said, there is already an element similiar to this in place, but the only difference is they are labelled "deceased" than  anything and no lines are broken; this also shows exactly the same with the name, images, points, lineages, etc. and they do not need to be fed, but even with this, this makes some breeders turned off of buying a horse with lines deleted in that way, by personal preference. If that preference is a big majority of HPers, that may in tern actually make the breeding market for breeds on the game worse than better.

This is my own two cents on the matter and simply just my personal preference, so hopefully I don't sound too rude or snippy on this, that's not my intention. Again, just my own preferences and opinions.

ORRRRRR what about when you search horses or dogs you can search (retired animals) ?