How do you decide what to do in jumps game whether they stay hurdling or go chasing what stat bars on the jumps are the ones to look for

Mushy the jumps bars are rubbish they mean nothing, I hope they will mean more in SO 6.

So it's just guess work then!

Mushy the jumps bars are rubbish they mean nothing, I hope they will mean more in SO 6.

Actually the bars are not rubbish, if the jumps bar is at zero as a young horse it pretty much means he/she will never make a top chaser but will take a hurdle, if the bar is lets say 1/5 full or more as a young horse then with training and experience both over hurdles and fences the bar will increase and it will be a much better chaser than hurdler as it is able to use that to its advantage over the bigger obstacles. If you study the way the horses jump fences in the game you will see that a chaser with a higher bar will jump the fences much quicker, put in fast jumps and make considerably less mistakes than one with a low bar.

Some chasers just keep on improving their jumping as the seasons go by and others will reach a limit.

I'll refer you to the great Hoof Prince to show you the bar in question and how it improves with training and experience.

http://postimg.org/image/70tr0uanp/ - The jumps bar in the top left was a bit lower when he began his hurdling career as a 5yo.
http://postimg.org/image/a6h7aj46r/ - Notice how much the bar has gone up from when he started jumping fences from 6yo to 7yo.
http://postimg.org/image/nusp3hxw5/ - Jumping didn't improve from 7yo to 8yo and i thought his ability had plateaued at this point.
http://postimg.org/image/vpkcsr5b7/ - But improved again from 8 to 9yo.
http://postimg.org/image/4kqn62qr7/ - And again from 9 to 10yo.
http://postimg.org/image/h7hqlc231/ - More jumping improvement from 10 to 11yo.