Thread:MapiyaH/@comment-44117874-20191024052750/@comment-38439752-20191207153035

I got so annoyed last night that I sped up, got that t2 welsh out of the way and bred a t3 XD So now I am done with the Elite section of the horsepedia, yay! Will take that break now, and use it to earn more diamonds and upgrade some grand stables. I'm so far behind in them and will need a lot more space with the mythics than I did with the elites. It will take a lot longer to train a t2 Dutchie to level 15 than t2 mustang.

I keep forgetting too, but then I remind myself that we have time. If you win in rarefied 8 chests a day (16 pieces), you can collect a recipe in 5 days. So even if I sometimes only get 4 chests, I'm still getting enough to collect all recipes before the end of this horse racing event. Miracle is already 52/80, so just a few days to go.

All horses are the same once they have diamond base stats and at least one diamond weather. Thunderhoof doesn't factor in, except when it's raining, of course. However, this is where the game play aspects comes in. Getting a top time requires skill and a little bit of luck. Right now it's very easy to hit perfect during the race, only the starting boost is a bit more tricky. In any case, to get a top time, three things factor in: horse's skills, how many perfect boosts you hit and how quickly you can hit those boosts.

It really comes down to timing. You have to time it perfectly, hitting the boost the exact millisecond it becomes available to hit, then get a perfect, and then hit the next one again exactly when the countdown ends. Basically if you have time to see the horse on the boost button, you are already way too late. You need to hit it exactly when it changes. That takes lots of practice. I still used to struggle with perfects on the old engine (when it was actually difficult to hit them), but mostly it's the timing. Practice makes perfect. It took me over half a year to get that timing down, so that I might have a chance of getting a good time IF I also happened to hit perfects on that run.

When I won Gaia from the leaderboards without a season star, I spent about an hour each day trying and failing. Every time I missed a perfect, I restarted the game mid-race, so that it wouldn't count as one of my daily races. Every time I felt I was slow to hit the boost, I restarted. I finally got a good time after I spent three hours in a row just running the race over and over again - and it was barely good enough, as at the end of the season I was 48th. Won Gaia, but it was very close!

Now you have a horse that is capable of getting you to the top of the leaderboard. Now it's your time to start working ;)

I would choose the one with prettier eyes. I love the light blue, so that's what I would go with. Also I love the British tack, so not a bad option at all. But it's really up to you!