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Once you reach Riding Level 3, on your horse's page underneath his health, and energy stats, there wil be a tab that says "Breeding" and if you click that tab, it will show you it's parents, its Genetic Potential, and his BLUP.

If you haven't reached Riding level 3, then you could ask someone who has reached level 3 to tell you.

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In order to fully BLUP a horse you must max out its top 3 breed skills, through riding, training, and competing in them until no more skill points can be gained.You must also win (first place) 20 competitions in any discipline.The horse cannot reach 100 BLUP until it is at least 10 years old.Answer 1:There are many ways to blup your horse but there is no over all fastest way. Whatever is fastest for you works best for you. (but it doesent hurt asking the mod's)Answer 2:Complete short trot rides to 0% skill (increases speed)Complete Dressage training to 100%Complete Speed training to 100%Get 20 winsbold top 3 skillsAge to 10 years


What is BLUP?

BLUP is the shortened version of Best Linear Unbiased Prediction, or breeding quality number.Blup calculations are used to predict everything from hog birth rates to volcanic activity, but has not been used in the breeding of other horse breeds than the Icelandic. By compiling fixed numerical values assigned to the traits of any given individual, or group of individuals (hogs, volcanoes, horses), it is possible to track and predict those traits objectively through mathematical calculations. A Blup rating is linear because of the constant updating of the numbers and unbiased because there is little room for subjective opinion. The resulting numbers allow breeders to make informed predictions when choosing breeding stock.On average, a horse that comes to an evaluation, gets 7-7.5 for individual characters.The Blup is normal-distributed with an average at 100, i.g. the ultimately average horse meeting up at evaluation has an average at 100, a nag has Blup much lower than 100 (for example 90) and a good horse has a Blup higher than 100 (for example 110). The higher the BLUP is over 100, the more likely it is that the horse and it's offspring will be good.What BLUP is, is a prediction of the breeding potential of the individual, that is, if you breed the horse, how likely is it that the horse will improve the offspring, or make an offspring of a lesser quality.A horse has a Blup for many characters. The blup is calculated for all the characters that are evaluated, and for the main score. If a horse gets 100 in Blup for a character A, it means that if you breed that horse, it's not likely to influence that character A in a positive or negative way, it's breeding potential is simply average for that character. If you have a horse, where the available information about the character A is over average, then that horse gets over average in Blup for the character A.When the blup of a horse X for a characteristic is calculated, all availabel individual evaluation scores that are connected to that horse are used for the calculations, both the scores of the horse X itself, it's parents, it's offspring, it's grandparents, and lots of other relatives. Virtually all evaluation scores of all known relatives are used. Takes BIG computers to do it.Individual horses can be evaluated many times. You can have the horse evaluated when it's 4 year old, and many times each summer all it's life if you want to. On the other hand, if a horse gets a good evaluation, let's say 8.5 for tolt, when it's young, it gets higher BLUP than if it gets the same evaluation when older. That's because we want our horses to mature quickly, and that you don't need to train them for years to become good. Taking horses to 2-3 evaluations is common for stallions, showing them as 4-5 year olds once, and again when they're fully trained. Taking them to too many evaluations doesn't change the BLUP much, but can be bad for the reputation. If it takes many tries to get one good average evaluation then people tend to think there is something wrong with the horse.A Blup is based on the relatives of the horse, and evaluations of the horse itself. If a horse for example has 10 evaluated relatives that all have a pretty head, it has a high BLUP for head (that is, it is likely to have a pretty head). If the horse is then evaluated, and there the score for head is low (that is the head prooves to be ugly in appearance) the BLUP gets much lower.The evaluations that have been made in Iceland in the last 40 years are now put into a large database, Fengur, with evaluation of more than 100.000 horses, and on this data have been made the calculations which are the basis for the breeding value calculations on Icelandic horses, the BLUP! The BLUP is expected to be used as supplement to other evaluations, and insight, but not to rely on, one and alone.The exact calculation of the Blup is a very complicated statistical procedure, and will not be covered here.EXAMPLE:So, if I take one of the supergood stallions as an example, a stallion that has 145 in Blup for the character tolt. It's the stallion B. If I check him quickly, and his pedigree (and forgetting and not checking lots of other info on his pedigree, it's just to give you an idea), the stallion O:Got on one evaluation the character 8.5 for tolt.Got on one evaluation the character 8 for tolt.Got on one evaluation the character 9.5 for tolt.Got on one evaluation the character 9.5 for tolt.Has got about 400 registered offspring, where of lots of them are evaluated, and most of the evaluated offspring get high marks for tolt.Has got a father with high BLUP for tolt (116), and many evaluated offspring, and good evaluations for tolt.His father's parents were evaluated.Has gotten an unevaluated mother, that has given a number of evaluated offspring, all with good evaluations for tolt, so she's got good BLUP for tolt.There is info on more distant relatives that are also calculated into this. All this gets him to be the stallion that has one of the highest BLUP numbers of all stallions in Iceland (145) and with a very high "security" (öryggi) as there is so much info on him. This means he's likely to make the tolt in his offspring better.Take one young stallion E for example and the character "legs".He's not been evaluated. His offspring have not been evaluated. His father was evaluated His mother was evaluated, got 7.5 (average) for legs of feet, and she has no evaluated offspring. His mother's father was evaluated and has many evaluated offspring, he's got 99 in BLUP for legs. His father's parents were evaluated with evaluated offspring, and have near 100 in blup for legs. So there is quite some info on his grandparents, but none about E or his offspring. The info on his grandparents point to average BLUP. E has a calculated 102 in BLUP for legs, based mostly on info on his grandparents, but also on info of further relatives which I won't dig into here (father's father's father, uncles, nieces etc.). But the security of this info is rather low, only 56%. That means he's likely to make the quality of feet of his offspring neither better nor worse, as the BLUP is virtually 100.If we'd find a stallion where all the info is bad about a character, the BLUP will be bad, and he's likely to have bad influence on this character in his offspring.If you breed together a stallion with 120 in BLUP for tolt, and a mare with 80 in BLUP for tolt, it's likely that you'd get a neither good nor bad offspring from this combination, and the offspring will get the BLUP 100 for tolt until further information about it is collected (the offspring is evaluated, or it's offspring, or other relatives).Also, when BLUP is calculated, it works all ways. Let's say you take the above stallion O, and breed him to a mare with high blup for tolt (let's say 120), the offspring B will have a high blup when it's unevaluated (maybe something like 132). When the offspring is evaluated, and it gets good evaluations for tolt, it will help raising the BLUP of the stallion O a bit.On the other hand, if O is bred to a mare with low BLUP (let's say 90) and bad evaluation for tolt (let's say 7), the offspring P will get a lower BLUP (maybe 110). If the offspring is evaluated, and it gets an equally good evaluation as B, this will improve the BLUP of the stallion O MORE than the same evaluation of B. The reason is, that the stallion has shown/proved it's breeding potential to be much better, if it could raise the offspring of the bad mare up to being a good horse, than if it could raise the offspring of the good mare to be an equally good horse.So, if both B and P go to an evaluation, and both get 9.0 for tolt, the effect of P on it's father's blup will be a lot more.And more such stuff is calculated along with this, but these are the most important factors.So, how can you use this information in real life? If you for example have an unevaluated mare, that has a good tolt but is very reluctant to trot, and you are rather certain that it's a fault she's born with (not training mistake), you might want to improve this in the offspring. Then it's best to search for a stallion that has good tolt, but which has gotten supergood evaluation for trot, and preferably good Blup for trot too. That way, you know that the sire has both proven himself as an individual with good trot, and that his pedigree and offspring have also had a tendency to have good trot. Another way to use this in real life is when choosing youngsters. If you are looking at several youngsters, it can help to check on their BLUP factors, to see how good they are likely to become, but remember this is a hint, not the final truth.BLUP is the shortened version of Best Linear Unbiased Prediction, or breeding quality number.Blup calculations are used to predict everything from hog birth rates to volcanic activity, but has not been used in the breeding of other horse breeds than the Icelandic. By compiling fixed numerical values assigned to the traits of any given individual, or group of individuals (hogs, volcanoes, horses), it is possible to track and predict those traits objectively through mathematical calculations. A Blup rating is linear because of the constant updating of the numbers and unbiased because there is little room for subjective opinion. The resulting numbers allow breeders to make informed predictions when choosing breeding stock.On average, a horse that comes to an evaluation, gets 7-7.5 for individual characters.The Blup is normal-distributed with an average at 100, i.g. the ultimately average horse meeting up at evaluation has an average at 100, a nag has Blup much lower than 100 (for example 90) and a good horse has a Blup higher than 100 (for example 110). The higher the BLUP is over 100, the more likely it is that the horse and it's offspring will be good.What BLUP is, is a prediction of the breeding potential of the individual, that is, if you breed the horse, how likely is it that the horse will improve the offspring, or make an offspring of a lesser quality.A horse has a Blup for many characters. The blup is calculated for all the characters that are evaluated, and for the main score. If a horse gets 100 in Blup for a character A, it means that if you breed that horse, it's not likely to influence that character A in a positive or negative way, it's breeding potential is simply average for that character. If you have a horse, where the available information about the character A is over average, then that horse gets over average in Blup for the character A.When the blup of a horse X for a characteristic is calculated, all availabel individual evaluation scores that are connected to that horse are used for the calculations, both the scores of the horse X itself, it's parents, it's offspring, it's grandparents, and lots of other relatives. Virtually all evaluation scores of all known relatives are used. Takes BIG computers to do it.Individual horses can be evaluated many times. You can have the horse evaluated when it's 4 year old, and many times each summer all it's life if you want to. On the other hand, if a horse gets a good evaluation, let's say 8.5 for tolt, when it's young, it gets higher BLUP than if it gets the same evaluation when older. That's because we want our horses to mature quickly, and that you don't need to train them for years to become good. Taking horses to 2-3 evaluations is common for stallions, showing them as 4-5 year olds once, and again when they're fully trained. Taking them to too many evaluations doesn't change the BLUP much, but can be bad for the reputation. If it takes many tries to get one good average evaluation then people tend to think there is something wrong with the horse.A Blup is based on the relatives of the horse, and evaluations of the horse itself. If a horse for example has 10 evaluated relatives that all have a pretty head, it has a high BLUP for head (that is, it is likely to have a pretty head). If the horse is then evaluated, and there the score for head is low (that is the head prooves to be ugly in appearance) the BLUP gets much lower.The evaluations that have been made in Iceland in the last 40 years are now put into a large database, Fengur, with evaluation of more than 100.000 horses, and on this data have been made the calculations which are the basis for the breeding value calculations on Icelandic horses, the BLUP! The BLUP is expected to be used as supplement to other evaluations, and insight, but not to rely on, one and alone.The exact calculation of the Blup is a very complicated statistical procedure, and will not be covered here.EXAMPLE:So, if I take one of the supergood stallions as an example, a stallion that has 145 in Blup for the character tolt. It's the stallion B. If I check him quickly, and his pedigree (and forgetting and not checking lots of other info on his pedigree, it's just to give you an idea), the stallion O:Got on one evaluation the character 8.5 for tolt.Got on one evaluation the character 8 for tolt.Got on one evaluation the character 9.5 for tolt.Got on one evaluation the character 9.5 for tolt.Has got about 400 registered offspring, where of lots of them are evaluated, and most of the evaluated offspring get high marks for tolt.Has got a father with high BLUP for tolt (116), and many evaluated offspring, and good evaluations for tolt.His father's parents were evaluated.Has gotten an unevaluated mother, that has given a number of evaluated offspring, all with good evaluations for tolt, so she's got good BLUP for tolt.There is info on more distant relatives that are also calculated into this. All this gets him to be the stallion that has one of the highest BLUP numbers of all stallions in Iceland (145) and with a very high "security" (öryggi) as there is so much info on him. This means he's likely to make the tolt in his offspring better.Take one young stallion E for example and the character "legs".He's not been evaluated. His offspring have not been evaluated. His father was evaluated His mother was evaluated, got 7.5 (average) for legs of feet, and she has no evaluated offspring. His mother's father was evaluated and has many evaluated offspring, he's got 99 in BLUP for legs. His father's parents were evaluated with evaluated offspring, and have near 100 in blup for legs. So there is quite some info on his grandparents, but none about E or his offspring. The info on his grandparents point to average BLUP. E has a calculated 102 in BLUP for legs, based mostly on info on his grandparents, but also on info of further relatives which I won't dig into here (father's father's father, uncles, nieces etc.). But the security of this info is rather low, only 56%. That means he's likely to make the quality of feet of his offspring neither better nor worse, as the BLUP is virtually 100.If we'd find a stallion where all the info is bad about a character, the BLUP will be bad, and he's likely to have bad influence on this character in his offspring.If you breed together a stallion with 120 in BLUP for tolt, and a mare with 80 in BLUP for tolt, it's likely that you'd get a neither good nor bad offspring from this combination, and the offspring will get the BLUP 100 for tolt until further information about it is collected (the offspring is evaluated, or it's offspring, or other relatives).Also, when BLUP is calculated, it works all ways. Let's say you take the above stallion O, and breed him to a mare with high blup for tolt (let's say 120), the offspring B will have a high blup when it's unevaluated (maybe something like 132). When the offspring is evaluated, and it gets good evaluations for tolt, it will help raising the BLUP of the stallion O a bit.On the other hand, if O is bred to a mare with low BLUP (let's say 90) and bad evaluation for tolt (let's say 7), the offspring P will get a lower BLUP (maybe 110). If the offspring is evaluated, and it gets an equally good evaluation as B, this will improve the BLUP of the stallion O MORE than the same evaluation of B. The reason is, that the stallion has shown/proved it's breeding potential to be much better, if it could raise the offspring of the bad mare up to being a good horse, than if it could raise the offspring of the good mare to be an equally good horse.So, if both B and P go to an evaluation, and both get 9.0 for tolt, the effect of P on it's father's blup will be a lot more.And more such stuff is calculated along with this, but these are the most important factors.So, how can you use this information in real life? If you for example have an unevaluated mare, that has a good tolt but is very reluctant to trot, and you are rather certain that it's a fault she's born with (not training mistake), you might want to improve this in the offspring. Then it's best to search for a stallion that has good tolt, but which has gotten supergood evaluation for trot, and preferably good Blup for trot too. That way, you know that the sire has both proven himself as an individual with good trot, and that his pedigree and offspring have also had a tendency to have good trot. Another way to use this in real life is when choosing youngsters. If you are looking at several youngsters, it can help to check on their BLUP factors, to see how good they are likely to become, but remember this is a hint, not the final truth.


How do you get a 100 blup horse?

What_is_BLUP?BLUP_=_Best_Linear_Unbiased_Prediction._It's_pretty_much_putting_a_number_to_the_breeding_quality_of_your_horse._">BLUP = Best Linear Unbiased Prediction. It's pretty much putting a number to the breeding quality of your horse. The higher the blup, the better! The highest blup is 100. You should never breed a mare if one of the parents (either stallion or mare) has a negative blup. You can increase blup's by training the horse. If you do breed with negative blup, the foal will not turn out very good. It will still be cute, (of course) but its potential won't be as high.The BLUP is a genetic index. It plays a role in the reproduction since the parents's BLUP influences the potential of a foal at its birth.It is calculated depending onthe training level reached by the horse in its best three skills,the number of competitions won by the horse, the ideal being 20 victoriesand its age. The BLUP can only reach 100 after 10 years' old.It is therefore interesting to select trained horses as reproducers and those that have excelled in competitions. Depending on these parameters, the BLUP will always be between - 100 and 100, - with -100 being the minimum BLUP and 100 the maximum BLUP that a horse can achieve.If the parents's average BLUP is 0, i.e. neutral, it will not have an impact on calculating the foal's genetic potential. If it is less than 0, the foal will have more chance of seeing its potential lower than its parents's potential and vice versa if the average BLUP is more than 0.To have the best reproducers and have every chance of having the best foals possible, it is preferable to select horse with a high, or at least a positive, BLUP, i.e. mainly well trained individuals.100 BLUP Training Methods:First you complete the horses training, then you put it in as many shows as you can each day (particularly the shows the horse is best at winning). You could also do some rides but that's the best way I know to get the job done. :)you need to complete training win 20 comps and finish rides for more info got to the site listed in the related links below.Actually you only need to bold the horses top 3 skills, get 20 first place wins, and have the horse be 10 years old. So a horse that has only 3 categories in training finished it can be 100Blup the skills would just need to be in the top 3.☼ Quick 100 BLUP Method ☼This works regardless of breed and means you can gain your 20 wins without being suffocated by the monster skillors._____________TO BEGIN WITH_____________Complete short trot rides to 0% skill (increases speed)Complete Dressage training to 100%Complete Speed trianing to 100%_____________COMPETITIONS_____________During speed training you will need to take regular breaks to recoup energy - spend a few hours in the box every day until you find a tub of grease (ToG)Every time you find a ToG stop all training/ rides and purely enter comps - Focus on comps in your horse's worst skill area at first (for connies i enter trot and gallop races till I have a few wins), then his best (for connies i enter cross country)Only enter comps you know you have a chance at (check the other entrants out first and if they are higher skilled than you then avoid them)Enter the lowest level comps you can findPut another one of your own horses in there with lower skills or low health to help 'fill'Once the ToG runs out go back to training, or completing short ridesEvery time you find a ToG enter more comps._____________________ONCE YOU HAVE 20 WINS_____________________Now go back and complete training to 100% in your horse's best 3 skills, and rides to 0% (see bottom of thread for which rides & comps increase which skills)You should have a horse with its 3 best skills bolded, and 20 competition wins under its belt. All you need now is to age to 10 years if he isn't already**NOTE** Increasing only speed and dressage first means that your horse will have high skills but still be low enough in its very best skill, to enter the lowest level comps. This means you can avoid the monster skillors that dominate the higher level races.Different breeds may benefit from other training methods, and for that reason there are trianing methods for each breed detailed in another post on my forum___________________________________________COMPS & RIDES TO INCREASE YOUR 3 BEST SKILLS___________________________________________Your horse has 6 skills, 3 of which are his 'top skills' - You can click on his breed to find out what those are. Once you know your horse's top 3 skills you can do rides, train, and enter competitions accordingly, in order to gain enough skill for 100 BLUP.Below are listed the types of rides and competitions, and what skills can be gained from them.#RIDESshort trots: speed, dressage and trotshort gallops: speed, dressage and gallopshort sloping land: speed, dressage and jumpinglong trots: stamina, dressage and trotlong gallops: stamina, dressage and galloplong sloping land: stamina, dressage and jumping#CompsMost comp types give 3 different skills just like rides do (the exception is cross country, which only gives 2):show jumping: speed, dressage, jumpingcross country: stamina, dressagegallop races/barrels: speed, dressage, galloptrot races: speed, dressage, trot1. Train in the top three skills. To see the top three skills, go to the "Genetics" tab on your horses page and the skills with the most stars are the top ones.2. Start and finish the rides until your horse can't gain any more skills.3. Compete in competitions until your horse has won 20 or more. Your horse should now be fully blupped.BLUP is basically what your horse will contribute to its offspring. The lowest BLUP you can have is -100, the highest is 100.You can improve your horse's blup in many different ways. Playing with it when it is a foal, doing rides, training and winning competitions all improve BLUP. Age also plays a part. A horse cannot reach 100 BLUP until it is at least 10 years oldHope this helps!


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