Is the great challenge and derby next? If so, I can't wait as I would love to win some awesome prizes.

The GC and Derby.

Great Challenge and Derby from when I played it on the international server last year (?) I think it was.

Piñatas Darumas

Same principle as the other editions of the Piñatas!

This time, the Darumas replace the Piñatas we use to have.

Darumas are little Japanese statues that can be painted for good fortune.

Instead of hitting piñatas, players are going to paint Darumas!

Each click on a Daruma will fill a gauge. Once completed the Daruma is fully painted and the player receives a gift!

How do we play?

Click on the Daruma in order to fill the gauge. Each Daruma has a growing number of points required as you progress in the contest.

Clicks reload over time and stack up in the gauge. Each slot corresponds to a click. The points value of a click is also given.

You can buy Brushstrokes with passes if your click gauge takes too much time. (Replaces Mace Blows)

Note: The clicks in the gauge are prioritized over the brushstrokes.
You can ask for help from your friends by using equus. (5 points per click from a friend). Don't forget to help them in return!


Objectives


Each Daruma will have 2 objectives to complete. Once completed, objectives will give you bonuses:
They can increase the number of clicks on the gauge.
They can make a single click more powerful.
They can increase the frequency of clicks.
They can allow more of your friends to help.
They can give points to the current Daruma.


Jackpots

Level 16 - Falabella (Petit)
Level 20 (Last Darumas) - Maneki Neko

Maneki Neko is the brand new horse from the Japanese divine horses series. She’ll give you Omikujis every day when she wakes up.
Her gift is 100,000 equus.


New to this edition
Once a Daruma is completed, you have to claim your gifts. This way, you can easily complete an objective and receive a bonus before moving to the next Daruma.



Community Goal
Once completed, it doubles the points offered by friends' clicks!

Maneki-Neko will give you Omikujis every day when she wakes up.

Choose one of them and win a prize from among:100,000 x Equus
Another surprise

Oh my gosh, I love the Pinatas promo. Ooh I hope it's possible to make it to level 16 to win a Fallabella without using passes as I would love to have another divine added to my account. Yay, two promos that are my favorite back to back, yes please.

The next promo is the GC and Derby and then after that promo is the Pinatas

does anyone know if Howrse is going to add more draft horse breeds?

Stagecoach!

You now own a stagecoach that you have to equip with horses so that you can go on a trip and get a gifts!

You can’t use your own horses, only the ones you will win during the event: the Travel Horses. You will recognize them because they are wearing special tack for the stagecoach.

This is similar to the previous reindeer event.

How it works
There are several levels of destinations that you unlock as you progress during the contest. The value of the gifts increases with the levels.

You can improve your stagecoach by accumulating kilometers and destinations. When you improve your stagecoach, you receive a new horse for your crew and you unlock new destinations.


Travel Horses

As mentioned earlier, you will recognize them thanks to their special tack for the stagecoach.

There are 5 Travel horses in total. You will win them by starting and finishing the tutorial and by unlocking the levels of your stagecoach.

Each horse has a specific perk that has an influence on night vitality regeneration:


Montana : when he wakes up, gives +30 Vitality to Arizona

Arizona : when he wakes up, gives +30 Vitality to Montana

Nevada : when he wakes up, gives +30 Vitality to the horse just before him

Colorado : when he wakes up, gives +20 Vitality to the horses just before and just behind him

Texas : when he wakes up, gives +20 Vitality to all horses placed in front of him

At the end of the event, you can keep the travel horses you won! They will lose the special tack but win a special competition bonus (+6 in each skill)


How to travel

You only travel during the day. Once your horses have no more energy, you have to camp in the desert!

During the day, you can:

Travel

Manage the caring of your horses, as they are in limited number, to raise their energy

During the night, you can:

Move your horses in the carriage

Replace a horse with another


To get to next day, you will have to wait or use the Sun Item.

You can win sun items :

At first connection of the day (2x per day)
After rides (2x per day)
After winning a competition (1 per day)
By buying them with passes


Jackpots

You can win Cookie by traveling to him.

You can win Koekje and her fragments in the Golden Fleece.

Complete the community objective to get more Koekje fragments in each Golden Fleece!

Cookie and Koekje belong to the Pastry divines. They can have foals of the following breeds:

Paint Horse
Appaloosa
Tennessee Walker

is this an updated version of the reindeer promo?

Might the travel horses be another "collection" we can have? (perhaps including all the states...)

There will be a new tutorial. Some of this may be the same but this is the basic idea: When you pick your first horse it takes you to that version of Gaia, Emma's horse. You learn how to care for her. Emma shows you what specialty the horse will do best at and what competition to enter. Then the horse gives birth and you get two foals (one male, one female) that are the ones you first picked out. After that Emma shows you the Auctions. She picked out 4 horses for you to choose from. They are all 500 equus and the auction is staged for you to win it. Then Emma gives the horse BMI and shows you the new beginner objectives.nstead of daily objectives, you get 3 apprentice objectives a day, which are easier. Not sure exactly when you stop getting them--at 100 completed perhaps? From what I understand, every 25 objectives you complete you can choose to get access to a feature or you could get passes. You might be able even if your seniority is 20 days you can still open an EC if you haven't done 25 objectives yet or why else would passes be an option? The prizes for the objectives are 500 equus, 3 AP, and 10 carrots. Objectives today were "Use 1 Aging Point", "Register a horse in an equestrian center", and "Play for 3 hours with a foal at once". These will be much better for newer accounts because most of them don't have the resources to cover female donkeys or to win rosettes.

is this a new promo or a new game change?

when do you think the new tutorial will come to the live servers? and will new players still be able to get a golden apple on their first horse? asking because I am wanting to join another server but tempted to wait until this new feature is implemented.

I expect this change will come about the same time as the Stagecoach promo. This promo is after the Pinata promo which starts after the Derby is done. As far as to what is in the tutorial, no information yet.

So does that mean seniority won't have an affect like it does right now. i.e 10 days item exchange unlocked via email validated and 20 days equestrian center creation and 30 days access to direct sales and reserved sales?