In Derby Champions, a great horse can do more than win races.

It can leave a legacy.

The Lineage System is designed to reward players who take care of their horses, perform well on the track, train consistently, and build stronger bloodlines over time. Every horse has a Lineage bar that appears in the stable when viewing that horse.

Fill the bar before the horse retires, and that horse earns a permanent place in the bloodline.

How the Lineage Bar Works

Each active horse has a Lineage bar.

Players fill the bar by earning lineage points through performance, care, training, and achievements.

Lineage points can be earned by:

• Feeding your horse the right foods based on its personality
• Getting good results during training
• Placing high in races
• Earning badges

Race results are the biggest source of lineage points. Finishing 1st earns the most, followed by 2nd, and so on.

The better your horse performs throughout its career, the faster its Lineage bar fills.

What Happens When the Bar Is Filled

If a player fills a horse’s Lineage bar before retirement, two things happen.

First, the player earns genetic points based on whether the horse earned a bronze, silver, or gold diamond. These points can be used after the horse retires to improve the horse’s base genetic stats.

After retirement, players can open the horse’s base genetic stats menu and spend genetic points in the stat categories of their choice.

Second, the horse receives a mutation gene bonus that applies to its breeding during retirement. The strength of this bonus depends on how many lineage stars the horse has.

Lineage Stars

Lineage starsqw2 represent successful horses in a bloodline.

Each horse can have up to 10 lineage stars. Every star means a horse in that bloodline successfully filled its Lineage bar during its active racing career.

This creates a long-term bloodline system where strong, well-developed horses can pass value down to future generations.

When breeding, the horse with the highest number of lineage stars passes its lineage stars down to the offspring.

For example, if one parent has 3 lineage stars and the other has 6, the offspring inherits the 6-star lineage.

Reaching a 10-Star Bloodline

A bloodline reaches its cap at 10 lineage stars.

Once a horse reaches 10 lineage stars, that bloodline is considered fully established. From that point forward, offspring from that bloodline can only be classified as the established bloodline classification. This means the first 10 horse careers in every bloodline is very important!

The best horses are not only the ones that win.

They are the ones that help create the next generation of champions.

Why Lineage Matters

The Lineage System is built to make bloodlines matter.

Each horse’s career can impact the future generations in your stable. A horse that performs well, trains well, earns badges, and fills its Lineage bar can become more than a retired racer. It can become part of a stronger bloodline.

Genetic points improve future offspring by strengthening the retired horse’s base genetic stats.

Mutation boosts increase the potential range of stat improvement that offspring can inherit beyond their parents. This matters because it gives players a long-term path toward creating horses that are as close to genetically perfect as possible within that bloodline.

That means players are not just racing for today.

They are building toward future horses, future breeding, and future advantages.

Build A Bloodline With Championship DNA

Derby Champions is not only about finding one great horse.

It is about creating a stable that gets stronger over time.

The Lineage System gives players a reason to care about a horse’s full career, from training and racing to retirement and breeding. The choices you make with one horse can impact the next generation.

Play Derby Champions and build a legacy that lasts.