Equine-Ranch

Summary
From Equine-Ranch website Equine-Ranch: Vintage!™ is an interactive browser based horse game centered around breeding and training to produce show or racing Champions. With true to life color genetics and several inherited traits, it provides complex and challenging entertainment. Here you can breed, raise, train, buy, sell and show virtual horses to Championships titles in seven bracket levels. Join thousands of others in the quest to breed the perfect horse! Choose from over 240 breeds from all around the world to fill your simulated stable. Learn how to pair the color genes to produce specific colors. With 192 colors and 19 coat patterns totaling over 80,000,000 genetic combinations Equine-Ranch: Vintage!™ is sure to have something to offer you. If you are interested in performance, our events are for you. Each event has individual judging criteria and takes the entire horse, both its training and its inherited traits into consideration in the judging. Breed for the perfect horse for Hunter Over Fences, English In-Hand, Western Reining, Five Gait Pleasure or one of the dozens of other classes offered.

From Equine-Ranch Facebook Launched in early 2004, Equine-Ranch™ was the first automated genetics based horse game. With a strong emphasis placed on realism, E-R™ was developed for the highly competitive person that wants the most realistic experience they can get in a browser based horse game. It offers the chance to participate in the horse hobby virtually, giving players the chance to experience everything from the intoxicating highs to the miserable lows of being a horseman in the competitive horse world. The horses are designed to mimic their flesh and blood counterparts as well as possible with intricate genetics that control every aspect of their being, not just their coat color! These genetics are inherited in the authentic chromosome pair fashion, with half the gene pairs coming from the sire and the other half from the dam. Quantitative traits, polygenetic traits, autosomal dominant/recessive/incomplete dominance/codominance inheritance, filial regression, inbreeding and outbreeding depression, and even incomplete penetrance are all accurately portrayed giving the horses a very real feel when breeding. The breeding results are unsurpassed for their authenticity. The results are so authentic, E-R™ has been used for years by schools for their equine sciences and biology classes! The training is the most advanced and realistic of its kind, with the horses possessing the capability to learn individual moves and tasks. Each horse has its own learning speed, which is influenced by genetics and environment. They possess complex personality and temperament traits including disposition, all of which makes them quite individual. How they respond to training varies based on these things as well, with some being more hot and some being more docile in how they react. Training builds on previous training, with some things requiring another thing to have been adequately introduced before the horse can learn it. Lack of proper ground and green training can thwart the training in discipline, as it should. Competition is challenging and rewarding. The horses are judged on their whole being, their fitness, their training, their performance. Their temperament, conformation, disposition all playing an role in the outcome. Each class has its own criteria for judging, all to give a realistic experience to competing. To be the best in a chosen specialty, one must breed selectively, train with fervor, and compete strategically. The classes each have their own required training and ideal horse, so each no one horse can dominate all areas and producing winners takes much more than sheer luck. There are no stalls to muck, no feed buttons to push, no pointless daily chores. No tack to buy and equip, no items to boost your horses. The entire E-R™ world focuses solely on your skill as a breeder, as a trainer, as a competitor. And the only player skills on E-R™ are the ones you possess in your own head! ;) No farming, no grinding, just you proving yourself and your horses. Test yourself against the best virtual horse breeders, trainers and competitors from around the world, and prove your mettle as a horseman. E-R™ is completely free to play. All features are available to all players. Purchase items through the E-R™ Store, or earn personal points and items through game play. You can also trade for Gift Certificates or earn GC money by writing for the E-R™ Horses 411 Project™ which you can then use to buy game items. Become a world class trainer, a top notch breeder, or a famous competitor. Your goals are your own. Game Features: 245 horse and pony breeds from around the world Over 300,000,000,000,000,000 (300 quadrillion) possible genetic combinations. Advanced in-depth genetics that go far beyond just color. Sophisticated inheritance system that passes genetic material from parents to foal that is true to real life. The genetics system includes complex concepts like genetic linkage for genes that are on the same chromosome, filial regression, and inbreeding depression and outbreeding depression effects on quantitative fitness and fertility traits. Built on the most accurate and up to date color genetics of the time based on real life published scientific research. 3,370 possible color and pattern combinations with thousands of shades possible and multiple variations of patterns and varied expression of coat traits. An impressive dynamic image generation system that brings the genetics to life. Each horse or pony is born looking very unique based on their coat genetics. An extensive competition system with 11 disciplines to compete in. Each discipline has a variety of classes. 7 competition brackets from Beginner to World Champion. 7 class divisions to choose from in each competition. 6 - 7 classes per discipline with the exception of Three Day Eventing.