The horse's day

The horse has its own day, which is not our real day. The history of the day is on the left of the horse's page. A horse's day starts at 8 a.m. when the horse wakes up. Then each action that you have the horse carry out takes a set amount of time. For example, meals take 30 minutes.

Your horse must be bedded down before midnight (horse time), after which time horses can no longer carry out actions. The only exception is foaling, which can happen at any time. To keep a horse in top shape, you should put it to bed no later than 10 p.m.

When the horse's day is done, you must put it to bed. To do this, you have two options: put it in the meadow or leave it in the stall. You must make this decision according to the weather on Howrse. For example, do not leave your horse in the meadow when the temperature is below 10°C.

You do not need to put foals that are with their mother to bed. They go to sleep when you put their mother to bed. Make sure to take good care of both of them.

Ageing

Once a horse is put to bed, you can age it. To do this without waiting for the next day, you need ageing points. You will find these as you make your horse carry out actions (it is then indicated in the history). Otherwise, you can buy five ageing points with a pass.

When the horse wakes up, a new day starts. On Howrse, horses age two months at a time.

There are two objects available on the black market that allow you to override these rules:

• Water of Youth allows you to age your horse one month at a time after its second birthday
• Morpheus\'s Arms lets you age your horse at will up to 30 years old.

Unlike ageing points, these objects must be assigned to a specific horse.

If you have no more ageing points, your horse will age automatically every day (at 7 a.m. GMT). You must remember to put it to bed before leaving the game.

If you have not had your horse carry out actions, it will not age automatically during the night. This means that your horse does not age when you do not play with it.

After its 25^th birthday, your horse gets old: its health and skills decline. If you take good care of it, it can live up to a maximum of 35 years. If you get the Philosopher's Stone, your horse becomes immortal and its skills never decline.

On Howrse, weather conditions and temperature vary every day. Weather information is available on the top-right of every page. You must take it into account when you decide where you will put your horse to bed and also for the crops of your equestrian center.

On Howrse, the seasons last one week. Fall starts on the first day of each real month. As it lasts 1 week, on the 8th day of the month Winter begins, on the 15th day Spring arrives, and on the 22nd Summer starts. Summer lasts until the end of the real month in progress, and then the cycle of seasons starts all over again the next month.

The temperature is associated with the season in the game, and so is the amount of grass in the meadow. Grass is abundant in the fertile meadows in the Spring and Summer, but becomes scarce in Winter.

In these pages, under the icon representing a trophy, you will find various rankings in which you and your equestrian center (if you have one) as well as your horses and ponies will appear.

In each ranking page, you can view your ranking by using the link "Display my position in the rankings" located at the top of the page.

Use the numbers in red or green with a - or + character in front of them to assess your day-to-day progress.

General ranking

On this page, you will find:

• The general ranking of the players
• The ranking by seniority
• The popularity ranking, which is calculated according to the number of visits by different players on the previous day. There is no point in trying to increase a player's ranking by visiting his or her profile several times, as only one visit will be taken into account.

The ranking of the breeders

On this page, you can view:

• The ranking of the wealthiest breeders
• The ranking of the breeders with the most horses
• The ranking of the breeders with the most aging points in reserve

The ranking of the horses

Because all the horses are not necessarily lucky in competitions, they may also be ranked according to their skills, overall or by a specific skill. You will therefore find a ranking for each skill.

You can also filter the ranking of the horses by breed and thus see the best individual of each breed.

In each of these rankings, you may display the position of your own horses and monitor their progress.

The horse victory ranking

The horses are ranked according to their results in competitions. There is a general ranking and a ranking for each type of competition (trot, gallop, cross-country, show jumping and barrel racing). The horses with the most impressive amount of victories are obviously great champions with outstanding abilities but also horses whose trainers have managed their careers wisely.

If you have more than 10 days of seniority, you may give away objects. You can only give away objects that are in your inventory, such as apples or turnips. You can give away a maximum of 6 objects per week to your friends, broken down as follows:

• 3 objects purchased from the shop
• 3 objects purchased on the black market

To receive your objects, your friends must have at least:

• 10 days of seniority
• Positive or zero karma

You may only give away one object per friend and per week.

After your horse is weaned, quickly board it at an equestrian center to be able to put it in a stall, put it out into the meadow or put it to bed.

To do this, use the link at the top-right of the page to choose an equestrian center. You can choose an equestrian center according to its price or its prestige. You may also search for the equestrian center of a specific player by providing the player's identifier.

Once you have selected an equestrian center, you must choose the duration of the stay, and then simply confirm. Of course, your horses do not all have to be boarded at the same equestrian center. Furthermore, you can change centers as often as you like.

You may extend the stay using the button at the top-right of your horse's profile. The director of the center may choose to accept or decline your request. It is also possible to ask the director of the center to reserve a stall in his or her establishment.

Choosing a center

The equestrian center that you choose will have an influence namely on:

• The cleanliness of the meadows. If they are not well maintained, your horse may get sick by ingesting toxic plants
• The cleanliness and size of the stalls. Your horse's morale will increase more when your horse is put in a stall if the stall is large and clean.
• The money you earn for lessons given with your horse. The price of the lesson being automatically calculated according to the ratio between the number of instructors working at the center and the number of horses boarded, the salary of the instructors and, of course, the health and level of dressage of the horses boarded. (The price indicated in the center's details is the amount paid to the owner of the horse that carries out the lesson.)
• The carrots that you can give to your horse are grown by the equestrian center. The better the crops, the more carrots you can give to your horse. Carrots are important treats because they give your horse energy.
• The presence of a farrier allows boarders to benefit from MF horseshoes.
• The presence of a saddler allows boarders to benefit from a SB bridle and saddle.

Cancellation and reimbursement

Remember to view the details of the center where you want to board your horse to avoid nasty surprises, because the stay cannot be cancelled. The horse will remain there for the number of days paid. There is only one exception: when a player buys a horse for which a stay has already been reserved, the player may cancel this stay within 15 days after the purchase.

The amount paid in advance for the stay of a horse is not refundable, except if the horse's stall is destroyed by the director of the center. In such a case, the owner of the horse will be reimbursed for the number of days that the horse was not able to occupy the stall. If you sell your horse, the buyer will benefit from the board already paid for the horse. In the event that your horse were to die, you would not recover the board already paid, as the director is not liable for the death of the horse.

Colts and fillies

Newborn foals stay with their mothers until they are 6 months old. During this period, they feed exclusively on their mother's milk. If the center where the mare is boarded has carrots, the foal may eat some for as long as it is with its mother.

Weaned foals only eat fodder. When they start to train, you will start to give them grain. You must see to it that they have a balanced nutrition: they should not eat too much or too little.

The adult horse

A working adult horse needs fodder and grain. The ration depends on the work that the horse does. If the ration is not appropriate, the horse will gain or lose weight. Weight problems increase the risk of illnesses. For fodder, also consider putting the horse out in the meadow. The grass that the horse eats allows you to save on the purchase of feed. The amount of grass consumed depends on the quality of the meadows of the equestrian center where your horse is boarded, but also on the season. There is less grass in the meadows in winter than in spring.

Weight problems

Various messages alert you when your horse is too fat or too thin. In such cases, you may take the necessary steps. If your horse is too thin, double the amount of fodder it has to eat. If it is too fat, cut the regular ration of fodder given to the horse by half. For example, if your horse is too thin and the daily ration is usually 4 pounds, give the horse 8 pounds and it will gain weight.

Treats

To please your horse, you can give it treats. There are three types of treats: apples, turnips and carrots.

• Apples and turnips increase your horse's morale and energy. You will find some at the breeder's shop.
• Carrots increase your horse's morale and energy. They are only available in the equestrian centers that grow them and that offer them to their boarders free of charge. Just choose the right center!

Mashes

To help you keep your horse fit, there is a wide range of mashes available to you:

• The energy mash gives your horse 5% energy
• The caloric mash boosts your horse's morale by up to 10%
• The health mash increases its health by 10%

They should be used wisely: you can only give your horse a mash every 6 months. Furthermore, mashes may only be given to horses after they have reached their second birthday, and health mashes can only be given to horses that are under 25 years old.

There are three gauges that give you an indication of the physical condition of your horse: energy, health and morale.

Every time your horse carries out an action, one or more of these properties varies. You must especially watch your horse's energy level. If you exhaust your horse, it could die. The ideal situation is to put your horse to bed at 10 p.m. (time displayed above the horse's history bottom left side of it's page) at the latest and with at least 20% energy. Below 20%, your horse will not recuperate enough during the night, and under 5%, it could die.

How to restore your horse's energy?

• By feeding it
• By stroking it
• By giving it a turnip
• By letting it rest in the stall or meadow
• By putting it to bed. Horses recuperate about five times the energy they had when they were put to bed. If the temperature in the meadow is satisfactory, they will recuperate more energy than in the stall. If you put your horse to bec in the box, morale goes down.
• By giving it to drink
• By giving it the sugar cubes that you will find as you carry out actions

How to restore your horse's morale?

• By grooming it
• By putting it in the meadow
• By stroking it
• By giving it treats (apples, turnips or carrots)

Finally, health increases naturally as time goes by.

Health problems

The health of a horse under 25 declines when:

• The horse catches an illness
• The horse its too fat or too thin
• You do not take good enough care of the horse
• The horse's energy drops below 20%
• You have not groomed the horse the previous day

After 25, the health of horses and ponies that do not have the Philosopher's Stone will decline gradually according to the age of the horse.

Like in real life, your horse can get sick during your game on Howrse. Of course, this is never something that happens by chance, and the causes of illnesses are always identifiable. When a horse gets sick, its energy, health and morale go down. With certain illnesses, certain actions may become impossible. For example, you cannot feed a horse that has colic.

For certain illnesses, for example flu or worms, there are preventive treatments that you may administrate. The horse will thus be protected for the duration of the preventive treatment, in general two years of the horse's life.

All the medicines, treatments and vaccines are available at the breeders' shop in the Healthcare department, under the brand name Horse Meds.

Poisoning

Your horse may get poisoned when you put it in a poorly tended meadow or box. As long as the poisoning is not treated, you cannot feed or water your horse.

Check the cleanliness of the meadows at your horse's equestrian center. Otherwise, meadows can become a breeding ground for toxic plants.

To treat a poisoned horse, you can get an anti-poisoning capsule at the breeders' shop in the Healthcare department, under the brand name Horse Meds.

There is no treatment to prevent poisoning.

Mud Fever

Mud Fever is an irritation or long thin lesion located most often in the fold of the pastern but that can also occur in the fold of the knee or hock. Mud Fever may occur when you put a horse in a pasture or box that is not well tended.

To treat a horse with mud fever, you can apply some antiseptic ointment, which you will find at the breeders' shop in the Healthcare department, under the brand name Horse Meds.

The flu

Be careful not to leave your horse out in the meadow for too long in cold weather, otherwise it may catch the flu.

Horses that have the flu cannot train or be taken out for rides or participate in competitions. When your horse catches the flu, you can give it medicine: you will find antibiotics at the shop in the Healthcare department.

To prevent illness, you can have your horse vaccinated.

Worms

It is important to treat your horse for worms. The main cause of the illness is inadequate cleanliness of the meadows. By applying a preventive worm treatment, you will reduce your horse's chances of getting worms.

Once worms are present, the condition continues as long you have not treated your horse. You can treat a horse with worms by purchasing deworming medicine at the breeders' shop in the Healthcare department.

Colic

Horses that are overweight or underweight may suffer from colic.

A horse suffering from colic will refuse to eat or drink.

Closely monitor the weight of your horse and feed your horse appropriately according to its age and size.

To cure a horse of colic, you may treat it with antispasmodic medicine, which you will find at the breeders' shop in the Healthcare department, under the brand name Horse Meds.

You will find, there, everything that you need to take care of your horse. In the various departments, you may purchase:

• Healthcare products (anti-poisoning capsules, vaccines, ointments, worm treatments, etc.)
• Equipment such as horseshoes and harnesses (which you must have if you want to participate in competitions)
• Treats that you can give to your horse or pony

At the bottom-right of this page, you can view the objects that are in your inventory and renew your supplies. If you need to, you can resell these objects to Ms. Hubert, the manager of the shop. However, she will give you less than the retail price for them. You can also sell her the manure produced by your horses. To sell something to Ms. Hubert, click "Sell to Ms. Hubert" in the breeders' shop page.

Note that you can only sell what you have in your inventory.

The black market is a very strange and unique place. It is run by Mr. Hubert, and you should always exercise caution when you venture there. The properties associated with the objects that are found there are awesome, some are very powerful.

It is represented by the icon of a black canvas tent. The objects on the black market may be purchased with passes.

These objects may not be handed down from parent to offspring. They cannot be transferred from one horse to another, and they cannot be recovered when the horse dies.

For your horse to be able to compete as from the age of 3, you must purchase a saddle, bridle and horseshoes at the breeders' shop. These are available in various models and qualities.

If your horse is boarded at an equestrian center that has a saddler, you can also offer it the benefit of a saddle SB and bridle SB, which comes with a bonus that varies according to the prestige of the center. If your horse is boarded at an equestrian center that has a farrier, you can also offer it the benefit of horseshoes MF, which come with a bonus that varies according to the prestige of the center.

You can assign a saddle, bridle and horseshoes directly from your horse's details.

All this equipment is hard-wearing. You cannot remove a horse's saddle, bridle or horseshoes. All you can do is replace them.

Before your future champion starts training outright, you can play with him. Playing is important for your horse's wellness; this time devoted to the filly or colt will be beneficial to the horse's future career. In fact, the more your colt or filly is accustomed to people, the more it will be able to reach beyond the limits of its genetics once it becomes an adult.

Every time you play with your horse between 8 and 18 months, you slightly increase its genetic potential.. By playing with your filly or colt, you contribute to its stability and morale.

The skills

On Howrse, there are six skill categories:

• Stamina
• Speed
• Dressage
• Gallop
• Trot
• Jumping

The maximum skills that a horse may reach during its lifetime through the activities that you will have it carry out is determined at birth according to its breed and ancestors. They vary, therefore, from one individual to the next, even within the same breed. However, as logic dictates, a trotter will never become a champion flat racer! As the potential of a horse cannot be extended infinitely, there will come a time when your horse will no longer progress. It is up to you to develop your horse's skills to their fullest!

The three primary ways to develop your horse's skills are: rides, training and competitions. Lessons can slightly improve your horse's skills, but they also eat up 15% of its energy. By how much skills will improve depends on the quality of the lessons at the center where your horse is boarded. Lessons improve skills in the two top skills of your horse or pony. Note that lessons no longer improve skills after the horse turns 25!

When you have completed the development of a horse's skill, said skill is displayed in bold in the horse's genetic potential. Completing the development means finish training and rides, and have the horse earn all the skills possible in competitions.

Training

Training starts at 20 months with rides. There are three types of rides: trot, gallop and steep slopes. Each develops specific skills (trot, gallop and jumping). You can choose to take a short ride that will develop speed, or a long one that will develop your horse's stamina. You will see the stars in the "Skills" frame (on the right in your horse's page) appear gradually. Note that there is a limit to how much a horse can improve, , and there will come a time when your horse will no longer benefit from rides.

At 2, your horse can start actual training. Each skill has an associated training activity; you choose the duration of the training session using the drop-down menu that appears when you click the discipline. You can combine several types of training in your horse's day, but keep a eye on your horse's energy level and on the time in the history, to ensure that your horse gets enough rest. Remember that you should put your horse to bed at 10 p.m. at the latest!

Stars awarded for excellence

The award for excellence is a green star that you will find under a horse's genetic potential. It indicates that the horse excels in that particular skill. It is rare, as it is the culmination of a breeder's extensive work in terms of training and careful selection of breeding stock. It is awarded to exceptional horses!

To earn a green star for excellence, the horse must have reached 100% of the genetic potential in the skill in question. It is possible to obtain a second star in a skill if the horse reaches 110% of the genetic potential in this skill.

Stars of excellence are obtained at the birth of the foal or during play with the filly or colt. Play is the only way to modify the genetic potential after a horse is born.

Bonuses

They appear in a frame in the horse's page. These are points added to the skills, but they are not to be confused with the skills. They may make a difference in the results of the competitions, but do not count for the minimum required for the competitions.

They may be associated with:

• The center where the horse is boarded according to its prestige
• Various objects purchased from the shop or on the black market, or found in the stall

They are also displayed in blue, with a plus sign (+) in front of them, in the "Skills" frame.

Your horse or pony is now 3 years old, and can start a sports career! To have your horse or pony compete, regardless of the discipline that you choose, you are required to have the horse fitted with horseshoes and to provide a saddle and bridle.

You must buy all these objects at the breeders' shop. You can even take advantage of the horseshoes, bridles and saddles designed respectively by the farrier and saddler of the equestrian center where your horse is boarded.

The competitions will enable you to earn money according to your success but also to improve the skills of your horses. As their potential is not unlimited, there will come a time when your horse's skills will no longer be improved by competitions.

Regardless of the discipline (speed races, cross-country, steeple-chase or barrel racing), each competition has a difficulty level set within a percentage range for a skill, each center setting its competitions at the level of its choice.

For each type of competition, you will be able to use filters, such as the nature of the race for speed races and show jumping events, and distance for cross-country. You may only register two horses or ponies from your stable in a same competition.

In the details for each horse, you will find, amongnst other things, a frame with a summary of the horse's victories, its results in competitions.

Gallop and trot speed races

For gallop races, an excellent gallop and a regular stride are indispensable qualities for your horse to become a champion gallop racer.

Trot races are the favoured discipline for trotters, but said trotters must nevertheless acquire the trotting technique by developing their skills in order to shine on the track.

Qualification for registration is determined by the trot rating for trot races and the gallop rating gallop races.

Cross-country

Cross-country is a very physical discipline. It requires extensive staminae, but also good jumping ability and a lot of docility which must be developed through flat work.

Qualification for registration is determined by the stamina rating.

Show jumping

The essential quality that a show jumping horse or pony must have is, of course, an exceptional jumping ability, but also extensive suppleness acquired through flat work. As these competitions are also against the clock, show jumping horses or ponies also need to be able to transition quickly between the obstacles despite their technical difficulty and height.

Qualification for registration is determined by the jumping rating.

Barrel racing

Barrel racing is a race against the clock that requires speed, dressage and gallop. The objective is to slalom around three barrels as fast as possible without knocking them down.

Qualification for registration is determined by the speed rating.

Coverings

Horses reach their sexual maturity at 2 and a half, and are fertile until the end of their lifetime.

It is up to the owner of stallions to post covering offers or to approach the owner of a specific mare, by choosing the price of the covering (between 200 and 1500 equus). The owners of mares may browse the covering offers, looking for the best stallions, or reply to the offers that were made to them directly.

It is possible to cross-breed. Each foal is thus unique: it will inherit characteristics from its parents and their ascendants. It is up to you to make the right crosses to produce champions or to create a breeding farm that is focused on this or that discipline.

As certain stallions are very much in demand, you can make arrangements with their owner to reserve a covering. Often breeders post their price and terms in their details or on the forum reserved for anything to do with reproduction.

To have one of your mares covered by one of your stallions, make yourself a reserved offer.

Gestation

Gestation lasts 12 months. After the 8^th month and for 50 equus, you can ask for an ultrasound to find out the gender, breed and coat of the foal. At this stage of the gestation, the mare can only do lessons. At month 12 of the gestation, you must send for the vet (the link is in the Reproduction box, bottom-right) and make sure, if possible, that your mare is boarded at an equestrian center that provides quality care.

Such a venture is nothing trivial, and you must make sure that you carefully assess the financial investment involved in the production of a foal. The vet costs between 500 and 600 equus. The exact price depends on the quality of the care provided by the equestrian center where your mare is boarded. Once you have sent for the vet, you can choose the name of your foal and start to take care of it. When it is weaned from its mother at 6 months, you must board it at an equestrian center.

Foaling is the only action that can occur after midnight in the horse's history.

Keep in mind that it is not necessarily advantageous, for example, to breed a mare that excels in dressage with a horse whose strong point is speed. In fact, the offspring will not necessarily be better in each of these characteristics. It is therefore better to favor breeding between close breeds.

Foaling is a tyring experience for a mare. There must be an interval of at least 10 months between the birth of the last foal and the next covering.

Geldings

You can have your males castrated between the ages of 2 1/2 and 6. Your horse becomes a gelding, it can no longer reproduce but will benefit from the following bonuses: endurance: +8; speed: +8; dressage: +4.

Note that it is not possible to give Zeus's Lightning Bolt to a gelding, and that castration is irreversible.

The foal

The foaling went smoothly, a foal is born. Its breed is determined by the majority breed in its ascendants if they are not "pure bred". Its coat is selected at random among the coats authorized by the foal's breed.

Its capacities depend on the following: the genetic characteristics of its parents (visible through the influences at the bottom of the horse's page) or, more specifically, with the genetic potential visible if you have obtained your fourth gallop; the degree of training; the ranking of its parents.

The foals that you produce remain with their mother, in the same stall, until there are 6 months old. They do not need to be boarded during this period, and they feed exclusively on their mother's milk.

Unicorns

Unicorns are very rare and reproduce almost like ordinary horses.

Baby unicorns are born only if a mare unicorn is covered by a stallion unicorn at 6:23 a.m. and 6:23 p.m. (GMT). Note that this is the time shown on the top-right and not the time in the history of your horse. The parents must be of the same breed. However, be advised that even if these conditions are respected, you will only have one out of six chances of producing a baby unicorn.

Donkeys

Donkeys can only reproduce three times in their lifetime, and only with another donkey. This is the only species whose genetic potential decreases with every generation.

Only the players who have obtained their fourth gallop have access to the information regarding genetics and the BLUP.

Genetic potential

The genetic potential of a horse is calculated according to the genetic potential and the BLUP of its parents.

There is only one way to improve the genetic potential after a foal is born: have it play between the ages of 8 and 18 months.

Inborn skills and skill improvement are not part of the genetic potential. Thus the skills of a horse may exceed the values indicated in its genetic potential.

Inborn skills

These are skills that the horse has right from birth. All foals do not necessarily have inborn skills. They are dependent on the foal\'s parents, their genetic potential and their BLUP. Thus a foal may be born with 10% endurance, for example.

A foal cannot be born with negative skills. If the average BLUP of the parents is below 0, then the foal will have no inborn skills.

These inborn skills are set at birth. They are added to the genetic potential.

Note that inborn skills are integrated to the skills, therefore it is possible to exceed the value indicated in the genetic potential. This effective value is what will count for the minimum skill requirement for competitions.

The BLUP

The BLUP is a genetic indicator. It plays a role in reproduction because the BLUP of the parents has an impact on the potential of the foal at birth.

It is calculated according to:

• The level of training achieved by the horse in its three best skills
• The number of competitions that the horse has won; the ideal is 20 wins.
• Age, as the BLUP can only reach 100 after the horse has turned 10.

It is therefore advantageous to choose your breeding stock among trained horses that have proven their worth in competitions. According to these parameters, the BLUP will always range between -100 and 100, -100 being the minimum BLUP and 100 the maximum BLUP that a horse can achieve.

If the average BLUP of the parents is 0 (then termed neutral) , it will not have an impact on the calculation of the foal\'s genetic potential. If it is below 0, the foal will have a greater chance of having a potential that is lower than that of its parents, and the other way around if the average BLUP is above 0.

To have the best breeding stock and put all the chances on your side to produce the best foals possible, it is suggested that you choose horses with a high or at least positive BLUP, that is to say, individuals that are well trained.

What are the various ways of earning money?

• Lessons: Your horse is paid a certain amount, which depends on your equestrian center
• Employment with an equestrian center: You are paid a salary every day provided you have connected and have taken care of at least one horse on the previous day

• Competitions in which your horses participate
• Covering offers if you have stallions
• Sale of a horse from your stable at auction, in private sales or to the Safe Haven
• Sale of the manure produced by your horses
• Resale of objects from your inventory to Ms. Hubert at the breeders' shop.
• You can credit your breeder reserves with a pass, and thus earn 100 + your seniority will be multiplied by 5 up to a limit of 1500 per pass

On Howrse, each player may have a paid job. You can hold this employment with that of equestrian center director. The equestrian centers hire employees.

The jobs are obtained with riding levels. Here, for example, is how to become a groom:

• Pass your riding level 1 (it's very easy!).
• Go to the "My Job" page and click "Become a groom".
• You will see a list of the job offers; simply pick the one with the highest salary.

To change jobs, you must wait until the end of your current contract. When the contract is finished, you can change job by using the appropriate button on the "My Job" page, provided you have the necessary riding levels.

The director of an equestrian center may make you a reserved job offer. The director may also offer to extend your contract. It is then up to you to decide to accept or refuse this extension.

Directory and breeding farms

The directory can be accessed as from the fourth riding level.

To register a breeding farm in the directory, you need 3 karma points. Each player may have up to five breeding farms, knowing that the last two breeding farms are unblocked when you reach Level 7.

A breeding farm that is officially registered in the directory groups individuals of a same breed belonging to the same player regardless of who produced them.

The directory makes it possible to track and showcase the work of the breeders. It also enables players to find the horse they want to purchase or hire as a stud even if the horse in question is not currently for sale or offering coverings.

Affixes

Any breeding farm can make a name for itself and build its reputation based on the horses it produces. You can register an affix and add it to the name of the horses that you have produced. This affix may not be removed by future owners of horses produced in your breeding farm. You cannot add it to the name of horses that were not born in your breeding farm.

To be able to register an affix, you must have at least two horses, and you may register another affix every time your karma goes up by 2 points. You can create your affixes with the link found in your Office page. When you click an affix, you can access the list of horses and ponies that wear it.

A breeder may have several affixes and attribute them according to the breeds he or she raises, for example, or to distinguish various lineages within a breeding farm of a given breed.

Breeders and their production

In the details of the horse or pony, you will find the name of its original breeder. To see all of a player's products in the player's details, click the link "View production".

The breeds and the blue star

Only the players who have obtained their fourth gallop have access to the information regarding genetics.

On Howrse, there are several breeds among both horses and ponies. You may differentiate pure bred horses or ponies from individuals produced by cross-breeding thanks to the blue origin stars, which indicate the proportion of each breed present in the ascendants of the horse or pony. Pure bred horses are assigned 1 star on the details of their owner.

Regardless of the method used, the minimum sale price for a horse or pony is 500 equus. You cannot buy back a horse that you sold for 10 days after the sale. There is another type of sale, but this is not done between players: the Safe Haven.

Trade is accessible to players who have obtained their second riding level.

From the moment that you put a horse up for sale, be it via private sale or at auction, you can no longer take care of the horse. It is automatically put on pause and no longer ages. The horse resumes normal aging after it has been purchased. Note that the horse stops aging when it is put up for sale, and this even if the seller took care of it just before, on the same day.

The auctions

You can sell one of your horses at auction if you have at least 0 karma points. If you have negative karma, you no longer have access to the auctions.

When you want to sell a horse at auction, you may select the starting price. Buyers will then bid over this price and the horse will be transferred to the player with the highest bid at the end of the set deadline (3 to 7 days).

If after a few days nobody has bid on a given sale, the seller keeps the horse. If the highest bidder does not have enough funds in his or her reserves to pay the seller, the latter keeps the horse, while the buyer loses 1 karma point and pays a fine. Finally, if everything goes smoothly, the money is transferred to the seller and the horse to the buyer.

If you want, you can cancel an auction sale in progress and keep your horse. However, this will cost you 15% of the highest bid made on the horse at the time of cancellation.

NOTE: Closed auctions (comment asking other players to refrain from purchasing the horse, mention of a closed auction in the name of the horse, or trying to reserve an auction to a specific player) are strictly forbidden and will cost you 1 karma point.

Private sales

Only the players who have at least 3 karma points and two live horses have access to private sales.

Private sales are a quicker way to sell your horses than auctions. You choose the sale price of the horse yourself. A breeder who is interested may purchase the horse, and the money from the sale is paid to you immediately.

It is also possible to reserve a private sale to a specific breeder. If you select this option, only the player whom you have chosen may buy your horse.

Note that you may cancel a private sale before it is completed without any financial penalty. If nobody purchases your horse or pony, it will be returned to you automatically 30 days after it was put up for sale.

Safe Haven

This is a sanctuary for horses; you can sell your horses there for 400 . The horses and ponies in the Safe Haven live happily far from the hustle and bustle of the world of competition until the end of their days.

Selling a horse to this sanctuary is not like selling a horse to a player. Once the sale is completed, you cannot buy your horse back, and the sale price is fixed.