Steeplechase Skill Event

The Steeplechase Skill Event is not shown on the Event Board. You'll know it's active if you see the blue "i" icon next to the location name and also underneath Amy's silhouette, there is an "Earn Special Rewards In: time-left" notification.

During a Steeplechase Skill event, each location has 7 different milestones. To get the rewards, you must reach and unlock each milestone on separate runs (see unlocking below). The milestone rewards are usually: Common Jewels, Dream Jewels, Horse Exp Points, the possibility of Weather Skill upgrade, and of course, final Performance Skill upgrade.

Common Questions & Answers are at the bottom of the page.

How to Participate
While horses in the Grand Stable cannot be used in Steeplechases, you can choose any one of your Stabled Horses to enter and run.

Tap and hold the blue "i" icon to see the milestone distances and rewards above the steeplechase's banner.

Once you are running the steeplechase, there are no active reward milestone indicators, however, you can tap the pause button to see how far to the reward milestone (if it has not been reached yet), if you have run far enough, the pop-up will simply show your distance and a large horseshoe (indicating you have reached the reward milestone for that run).

Unlocking Milestones
Remember, you are only awarded one milestone reward per run. You'll notice a lock on the milestone rewards, that means you have not reached that distance yet. If you want ALL the milestone rewards, you will have to run each steeplechase AT LEAST seven (7) times. You MUST reach each successive distance separately and in order!

''For example: the first time you run a steeplechase, even if you make it past the 2nd milestone distance, you'll only receive the first milestone reward. Then you have to race again for the second reward, and so on. There are 7 milestones you can earn.''

Note: Once you have unlocked the first few milestones, the final milestone distances are so long, it is not possible to reach them without using Diamonds to refill your horse's stamina.

The Special Rewards
Note: The horse you are running that reaches an upgrade milestone (either or Skill) earns that reward, you cannot run the race with one horse and claim the reward with another.

Tip: If you are running the Steeplechases for the Skill upgrades, it's fine to use other horses to unlock the early (non-upgrade) reward milestones. Once an Upgrade milestone is available: be sure to use the horse you want to upgrade the skill on, to make that run!

Weather Adaptation Milestone
The weather skill milestone is presented on a Wheel of Fortune. Since a horse can only have two weather adaptations, if your horse has 2 weather skills, the 3 sections of the wheel might offer: one upgrade for each weather skill your horse has and a prize (i.e. Common Jewels or Diamonds).

The chance for receiving an upgrade gets smaller with each higher level of weather skill. Before you spin, you can boost your chance for the weather skill you want with. Each higher skill level upgrade costs more diamonds to boost the chance.

For example: The Diamond level skill only has a chance of 11-16%, it costs 95 to boost the chance by 10%.

Final Milestone
The final milestone reward is a guaranteed performance skill upgrade. Your horse's skill will be upgraded by one level. Each skill has 8 levels in-game (see image) (no skill --> diamond skill). There are 6 levels that have very similar icons: bronze (1/2), silver (3/4) and gold (5/6). "For example: If your horse had a level 3 Speed skill (Speed 3.png) before you reach the upgrade milestone, after the upgrade, the horse now has a level 4 Speed skill (Speed 4.png). They look similar. If you upgrade that horse in the same skill again, it will gain level 5 (Speed 5.png)."
 * Mexico and Russia reward jump Jump 1.png skill
 * Australia and Brazil reward speed Speed 1.png skill
 * Japan and Nordic reward stamina Stamina 1.png skill

Diamond skill is the highest level of skill any horse can get. If you run the last milestone with a horse that already has a diamond skill, you will only get some coins as a reward.

Resetting Steeplechase Milestones
Once you have reached the final reward milestone, you will not earn anymore special rewards from that steeplechase location. You can still run the steeplechase for coins if you want.

The reward milestones can be reactivated by resetting the steeplechase with Diamonds. The distances will be longer than the first time around and the rewards will also change, except for the guaranteed skill upgrade at the final milestone.

The cost of resetting the steeplechase and the max distance after paying diamonds to replay are as follows:

Q: What am I supposed to do/what is this event about?
A: During this event, you are able to race for 7 different milestone rewards on each steeplechase. The main draw is the reward for the final milestone, which will be a single level skill upgrade for your horse. This event is pretty much the only way to get all-diamond level skills for your horses.

Why would you want an all-diamond horse, you ask? Mostly to try for the Horse Racing events leaderboard placement (all-diamond skill horses are faster) and also to run further in steeplechases (so more coins).

As for what you should do, have a look at the attached picture. Each and every race now has this list of milestones and rewards which you can race for. You need to race to unlock each milestone one by one (you cannot race all the way to the end and claim all the rewards, please don't waste your diamonds). So to claim the final reward, you'll need to run the race 7 times, and make sure the last horse is the one you want to upgrade.

Q: How do I see the milestones/rewards?
A: Tap the little "i" icon next to the country name and hold. It'll bring up a list.

Q: I raced all the way to the end...
A: ... to 5000m (whatever the final distance is) but I only got the first reward on the list! Where are the rest? You have to unlock the milestone rewards one by one. You cannot get all of the rewards from racing through to the end. You need to unlock the first milestone, then the second, then the third and so on.

Q: What's a diamond-level skill?
A: There are 8 levels of each Horse skill: nothing (no badge) --> diamond (maximum/Lvl7). You can compare Skill levels here: Skills. Stamina is used as an example here: "0 --> 1 --> 2  --> 3  --> 4  --> 5  --> 6  --> 7"

Q: My horses's skill didn't upgrade, Help? What gives?!

 * Q: I unlocked the final skill milestone and reached it on the 7th time, but my horse's skill didn't upgrade!
 * A: Please check the skill badges carefully. Take note that there are 6 levels with similar colored icons: bronze (1/2), silver (3/4) and gold (5/6). Be sure your horse did not already have Diamond level for that skill, it cannot go up any further. Also check that steeplechase location rewards the right skill upgrade: Mexico and Russia upgrade Jump ~ Brazil and Australia upgrade Speed ~ Japan, Nordic and Cloud Race upgrade Stamina.
 * Q: I raced but my horse didn't get a gold upgrade! Why not?
 * A: As mentioned above, the skill upgrade milestone raises a particular skill by one level, in this case, if your horse was not a skill level 4, it won't be a gold icon right away. You can see all of the skill levels here: Skills.

Q: Are horses with diamond skills all the same, or are certain breeds faster?
A: They're all the same at diamond level regardless of tier, level, breed, etc. Just take note of the max energy available!

Q: I got a message saying "that the horse can't receive any more upgrades"...
A: "I checked and the skill isn't diamond yet. What's wrong?" That message usually appears when the milestone reward is for horse experience points, and you've raced a max level 15 horse. Because it's max level, it can't receive experience points (you'll get coins instead). You can still race it for the final milestone skill upgrade at the end, as long as that skill isn't maxed.

Q: Can I upgrade a tier 1 horse?
A: While you can upgrade any horse that doesn't already have maxed skills, it will actually cost more in Diamonds and racing effort, to upgrade a horse with lower overall stats. It's definitely not recommended to skill upgrade any tier horse that has less than 20 max Energy, simply because it will be limited in where it can compete. Player Tip: Regarding lower Tier 1, you'll likely one day replace and sell it, and probably won't be able to recoup the cost invested to upgrade (upgrades do not increase horse sell value).

Q: I finished the 7 milestones and upgraded my horse's skill once. Why does it now say "225 diamonds Replay!"?
A: After you achieve all 7 milestones in a steeplechase location, you have the option to pay diamonds to reset the milestone rewards. The amount and distance increases each time you reset (up to a point).

Q: The veteran players told me it's going to take a LOT of diamonds to upgrade my horse. How many do we need for one skill upgrade?
A: Well, it depends on a few factors:

- How far can your horse reach in the races? You're going to need to race 7 times for increasing distances. Even with full diamond skills, horses still need to pay diamonds to continue.

- How difficult is the track? Australia and Nordic are pains in the butt with their invisible jumps that appear out of nowhere. Russia is easy, but tedious because it drains your horse's speed. You're going to need more diamonds if you mess up as well.

- After racing one round of races and claiming the final reward, you'll need to pay diamonds to reset the race and run for milestone rewards again. This can be anywhere from 75-225 to reset (depending on the country), and the distances you need to run increase each time you reset - to a point.

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