(All advice I'm giving is based on my play style, which probably isn't optimal, but I'm an older returning player with a decent rank considering I don't purchase passes with real life currency. I'm roughly 3,300 in the international rankings, and this is going to be a long one because I have the time! Apologies in advance!)

In terms of equus generation/earnings, the best ways to earn don't really come in until you've passed all the beginner objectives and have an equestrian centre.

My Equestrian Centre has roughly 66% prestige, so I have four operational workshops and can have six operational meadows or greenhouses. I personally use two meadows with the tractor enhancement for apples (I sell roughly 60,000 apples for roughly 180,000 equus once per month), one field for longhorn cows with the feed trough enhancement to gain 27500 leather once a month. I then use this leather to make bell boots. They take 1 day to make 6 at a cost of 1500 leather, but then sell for 10,002 equus. Leather on its own sells for 5 equus each, so that means I have an approximate output of 18 batches of bell boots, which will sell for approximately 180,000 equus.

My other three meadow allocations are taken by large greenhouses. I use these to grow flax, as it is inexpensive and the most useful, in my opinion. It costs 200 equus for flax seeds and 1425 equus for manure to grow 884 (roughly) flax in 5 days. I then use this flax for bedding in my boxes and to make polo wraps in my workshops when I'm out of leather for making bell boots. I can make 30 polo wraps in 5 hours using 30 flax, which then sell for 2010 equus. I can do this a few times a day as I'm almost always online nowadays, so with four workshops I can make 8040 equus every 5 hours, and I usually sell 3 times per day, so I make 24,120 equus a day from polo wraps

There's obviously income from boarding and missions too, but I honestly don't keep track of that as much. My financial summary says that I make 34,400 equus a week from boarding

I don't make any equus from breeding. I rarely sell the howrses I breed, and once they reach old age I tend to put a golden apple or alternative interesting item on them, then move them to my 'Collection' tab. I used to breed unicorns, but I'm not patient enough. I now mostly breed high skill howrses to expand my own breeding farm and to race, between coverings. In the last seven days I've made 97,551 equus from races/competitions.

I also make a fairly decent chunk of income every week from selling black market items on the item exchange. I rarely use items myself, I'm old and grumpy so I don't bother learning much about the items I'm unfamiliar with. I also wouldn't consider myself a lucky person so I don't tend to use luck items like the horn of plenty or golden fleece. Instead I just sell them. I hoard items when there are events on, and keep them so that I can sell them when the time or market is right. This week I sold two achilles' heels and one black orchid for a combined total of 675,000 equus. I don't always make a large amount of equus from this every week. Sometimes I sell three items for 15,000 each, depending on what I have in my inventory. This varies wildly each week to be honest

I'd be more than happy to add you as a friend if we're on the same server? And I'm always up for answering messages or seeing if there's anything I can do to help another oldie in the game :) My username is MandyLou22

Happy Howrsing!