General Rulebook

[Tesia Johnson]

Lost Willow Showgrounds' General Rulebook
Last updated on March 8th, 2008

General Membership Information
- All members must be fourteen years of age by the day they are joining. This is not just a game rule, but the law.
- All members must be respectful towards each other.
- Members must have a working email to recieve mass emails from the game on important information
- Members who disrespect other members or staff will be suspended and/or banned.
- LWS has a zero tolerance rule on public fights.

Supsension and Ban Program
- Members who are warned once will be suspended for one week
- Members who are warned twice will be suspended for two weeks
- Members who recieve a third warning will be suspended for one month
- On the fourth warning, the member is out.
- A public warning system will be put in use. Each warning will cause 25%. At 100%, you're out.

General Horse Ownership
- All members may have a max of 100 horses.
- Members must be at a recognized barn or boarding barn.
- Members will be required to pay a yearly tax of $250 per horse to cover feed, tack, vet, farrier, and other expenses.

Showing and Racing in LWS
- Horses may begin racing at age two
- Horses may begin steeplechasing at age four
- Horses may begin showing at age three
- Horses may begin jumping at age four
- Horses must retire from racing by age eight
- Horses must retire from steeplechasing by age twelve
- Horses must retire from showing by age twenty
- Horses must retire from jumping by age fifteen
- Halter is NOT a general sport for all horses and will not be treated as such. Halter will be limited to stock horses of halter quality only. Circuits may have conformation-judging classes included in class lists, but there will be no 'all breed halter circuit'.

Barn/Website Rules
- The only type of website needed would be for barns/stables/farms.
- All websites must have a disclaimer.
- Websites must be neat and orderly with no unapproved outside links.
- Stables must be used soley for LWS.
- Stables that offer boarding must have a database/master list for records purpose and this must be open to staff at any time.

Starting Off
Starting Balance is $250,000
Starting Horses is 4
Starting Level is Boarding
- You may apply for a stable of your own after one month of activity (30 days or more)

Yearly Tax? What's that?
Instead of having to pay for everything, such as facilities, vet, farrier, tack, feed, and so on, LWS has introduced a "tax" system that is yearly, to be paid on the first of each new year. The tax system will be as follows:

$250 per horse on the farm, registered and owned by you
$500 for a private barn
$750 for a public barn
$125 maintaince fee (used for end of the year awards)

End of the Year Show/Awards
Horses that have seemed to be outstanding will be recognized during this time. There will be a "Worlds" Fair at the end of the year for all to attend. Classes will be selected from the most popular of the circuits; special requests will be considered.

Rules are subject to change at any given time.