| | |  | EQUESTRIAN GIFT IDEAS | Home » » » Horse Show | | | | | | | Description: | | 2 to 4 Players. Playing time: about 20 minutes. Who will take home the blue ribbon-Safari, Felicity, or Marmalade Magic? Pick the best horse cards from your stable and enter the show. Each event favors some horses and penalizes others so choose carefully. Special assist cards, like braiding kits and custom saddles, are worth extra points. Win the most blue ribbon cards and ride to victory! Horse Show lets children play a strategic game based on horse shows, learning about authentic tack and actual show events. The horses themselves are the game's characters, with lively personalities felt through the illustrations. The child becomes the rider; grooming and braiding before a show, watching a horse at pasture, and jumping clean a stadium hurdle. | | | Features: | |
• Horse Show lets children play a strategic game based on horse shows, learning about authentic tack and actual show events
• Awards: Dr. Toy's Best Vacation Products, Parenting Magazine Toy of the Year
• The Ride for the Blue Ribbon Card Game
• Playing time: about 20 minutes
• Contains 59 cards
• For 2 to 4 players, ages: 8+ years
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 6.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 2.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 5.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.25 pounds | | Package Length:
| 5.8 inches | | Package Width:
| 4.8 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.5 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.4 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 11 reviews |
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30 of 30 found the following review helpful:
 Can't put it down once you start it!Dec 16, 1999
My 10 yr. old daughter got this game last Christmas, and really enjoys it! This is a card game format and players draw horse cards to use in game play, for different horse show events and competitions. Players need to use logical thinking when deciding what card(s) to play during the various events of a show (each horse has strengths and weaknesses). Each game is fairly quick (another plus!), but once players start, it's hard to stop after just a couple of games :-) This game would be especially enjoyable to horse-lovers!
33 of 34 found the following review helpful:
 A Very Fun GameNov 02, 2001
By Alexandra Chase
I love this game! Although it doesn't teach much about the horses themselves, players can learn about the different disciplines. Very cute pictures of the horses! Like Herd Your Horses, this deserves to be a classic horse game that you can play again and again with horsey or non-horsey friends. Use strategy to determine which horse to enter into which class with which accessories. 'Horse Show' takes a little while to learn, but after that it moves quickly. If I could change one thing about this game, I would put information on the personalities, talents, etc. for each horse on the backs of the cards, like Herd Your Horses does. But it's fun to make up personalities, breeds, experience levels and other things for the horses and pick your favorites. If you're looking for an exciting horsey game to play, try 'Horse Show'.
16 of 16 found the following review helpful:
A Great Gift For A Horse LoverNov 15, 2003
By K. Nettles
My 10 year old daughter received this as a gift; of all the games she got for birthday/Christmas, this was in the top five. The game requires some strategy -- at the random draw of a card, you must choose which horse to compete in that event. Each horse has varying degrees of strength in four different categories, but can only be used once in the game. As the players progress through each event, they must use weaker horses -- this is where the strategy comes in, as players must think in advance about the best way to use their stable of horses. The "right" answer is not necessarily to use the strongest horse each time. For additional complexity, there are also equipment cards that boost the strength of a horse in a single turn. Adults won't find this game particularly hard, but interesting enough to make it fun to play with your kids.
27 of 31 found the following review helpful:
Horses, Fun, and Cards mixed togetherJul 09, 2000
Yes, Horses, Cards, and Fun all mixed together is definetly what I would call this masterpeice in Family Games. Illustrations are detailed and beautiful. Although you don't learn very much about the horses themselves, you can determine the four main classes of Showing. Horse Show will get you more interested in horses tham you ever have before, and I assure you any horse enthusiast, or someone who doesnt even have anything to do with horses, would spend hours of fun competing in Dressage, Equitation, Jumoer, and Hunter events.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
fun for the young horse loverMar 17, 2007
By DD67
"babyonahill"
You need to be old enough to look at a set of several horse cards and decide which kind of horse show a particular hose would do best in and which horse you would get the most points for if you had that particular horse compete in a dressage show, jumper show, ect. points are added up and who evers horse earned the most points wins that horse show and that player gets to keep the cards. So I would say ages 8 to 12, but younger children could play with help from someone who can read and add up numbers.
There is a limited amount of rounds in a game, since there is a limited number of cards to play for each horse show so the game last around 15 minutes or so. I like this part a lot, since games like war "Chomp" can go on forever.
It does take a table top to play the game, I originally purchased the game for my daughter thinking she could play it on the bus with a friend, but you need to have a surface to lay out some cards. I quess you could try to squeeze them onto a larger text book laid onto your lap. But it wouldn't be easy.
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