Selling Horses in The Horse Market - The Experiment: Part I

As an avid Hooves of Fire player as well as being on the 'inside' of the game and its workings, one of the aspects of the game that interests me greatly is the Horse Market and Horse Selling License.  After being met with what could only be regarded as trepidation by players on its initial release ("who will buy my horses in the market?!?")  I set out, from scratch (that's right, pedigree 1) to see how I would go selling my horses in the horse market, using the Horse Selling License. 

To be non scientific, EVERYTHING sold.  Pedigree 1/2/3 would sell in sometimes 5-10 minutes on the market.  In fact, every horse up to approximately pedigree 12 would sell the first time I put it in the market, within 24 hours.   Granted, this was a few months ago.  So I decided to run the experiment again.  This time, I have documented it and I present the findings to you below:

Parameters to note:

• I am an "unknown" player, not a famous breeder by any means
• I have not run any form of advertising for these horses on the forum or otherwise
• Horses were named using the "random horse name generator" so there's nothing particularly special about their names
• No DNA certificates were used (that's a whole other experiment!)
• Horses have been raced minimally, and not necessarily on preferred tracks.  Most have no wins or less than 5 wins at best (i.e. they won't have a superb track record)
• Only mares and stallions were used for the experiment (no geldings)
• Sell price figures are rounded to whole numbers
• Most of the horses were 2-3 days old when first being put into the market

The results:

Pedigree 1: Mare; 0 wins; Sell price: $800; Sell time: < 1 hour
Pedigree 2: Mare; 0 wins; Sell price: $2000; Sell time: < 1 hour
Pedigree 2: Stallion; 0 wins; Sell price: $2000; Sell time: < 1 hour
Pedigree 3: Stallion; 0 wins; Sell price: $3500; Sell time: < 1 hour
Pedigree 4: Mare; 0 wins; Sell price: $10,000; Sell time: < 1 hour
Pedigree 4: Stallion; 0 wins; Sell price: $10,000; Sell time: 6 hours
Pedigree 5: Stallion; 0 wins; Sell price: $19,000; Sell time: 3 hours
Pedigree 5: Mare; 0 wins; Sell price: $14,000; Sell time: 2 hours
Pedigree 6: Stallion; 0 wins; Sell price: $35,000; Sell time: 3 hours
Pedigree 6: Mare; 0 wins; Sell price: $54,000; Sell time: <10 minutes
Pedigree 7: Stallion; 0 wins; Sell price: $200,000; Sell time: 12 hours
Pedigree 7: Stallion; 0 wins; Sell price: $200,000; Sell time: < 1 hour
Pedigree 8: Mare; 4 wins; Sell price: $430,000; Sell time: < 1 hour
Pedigree 8: Stallion; 1 win; Sell price: $330,000; Sell time: 12 hours
Pedigree 9: Stallion; 0 wins; Sell price: $780,000; Sell time: 12 hours
Pedigree 10: Stallion; 2 wins; Sell price: $1mill; Sell time: 2 hours
Pedigree 10: Mare; 3 wins; Sell price: $1.5mill; Sell time: 2 hours
Pedigree 11: Mare; 0 wins; Sell price: $4.8 mill; Sell time: 4 hours

So there you have it.  Every single horse I put into the horse market sold in less than 24 hours.   I realise that these are relatively low pedigree horses.   In Part II of the experiment I will document horse market selling of Pedigree 12 + horses.  Stay tuned!