The cards that have been released since needed to be bought from Howrse itself, having their own individual number and could only be used once.

If you are still at riding level 1, you have the option to wait until you have 10 days registered and passed riding level 2 in order to access the auctions – you don’t need passes for that one. The only other thing I can suggest is to re-start your game. A lot of users have done that last one, including myself

Many tips would be to read all the help guides. horsegazer has a great forum on the site also (she’s a regular player) Do a player search for horsegazer – Directories>Players>horsegazer. She has pretty much every information in her EC forum that anyone would possibly need. If needing other help, then there is also a game play forum on the site.