Training is a way of teaching your horses the basics of getting handled and ridden, keeping them fit and affectionate, and making them perform better in competitions. In order to train a horse, it will need to have enough energy to be trained. Players can earn experience points from training their horses.
Each training session costs the horse a certain amount of energy and progresses its training. Its physical fitness and affection will increase as well. Physical fitness is important in competitions and has a positive effect on the results. If a horse is not getting exercised, its fitness and affection drop by 3% overnight if the owner has been online in the last 24 hours.
A notable feature is the Roundpen, which keeps horses physically fit and affectionate without adding any training progress. More information can be found further below.
¶ How to Train
You can train your horse in the "Training" tab on its profile:
¶ BasicTraining
Foals can already receive basic training from when they are born.
Go to the Training tab on your horse's profile. On the lower right-hand side is an orange button to start basic training if a horse has never been trained.
Once the player begins the basic training, the exercises will show up, and the player can start training the horse. Basic training consists of four levels, each with several specific training exercises: handling, basic commands, ground training and riding.
Basic training must be completed before a discipline can get selected for the horse. However, there is no time limit for when the basic training needs to get started or completed - even an adult horse can still begin basic training from scratch. Once the horse has turned 3 years old and its basic training has been finished, a discipline can be selected.
¶ Selecting a Discipline
Every horse can be trained in any discipline, but in some, they'll perform better than others. A horse's conformation and genetic potential, among other factors, determine how well it does in competitions of each discipline. Each discipline has a set of relevant conformation and GP stats. A sentence at the end of the Breeder’s Advice might indicate where your horse’s talents lie. This is only a recommendation. The actual performance will also depend on factors like the strength of competitors for that discipline on your continent. Thus, the breeder's advice only tells you what the horse -should- be best at, without considering the competitive field.
After finishing basic training, if your horse is at least 3 years old, there are multiple disciplines to choose from: Dressage, Driving, Endurance, Eventing, Flat Racing, Show Jumping and Western Reining. More disciplines will be added in the future. You can choose freely in which discipline you want to train your horse, but you can only choose once. Here you can select a discipline. Once you've confirmed your choice, training bars and exercises appear on the Training tab.
You can select a discpline only once per horse, so choose wisely!
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Exercises and Levels
If a horse is in training, the levels will be visible on the right side of the Training tab with the name of its current level written in bold letters. The centre of the page contains the exercises of the current level. Right above, you can select a terrain (arena, track, or trail) and duration (15, 30, 45, or 60 minutes) for training. Along with the duration, you can see how much energy the training unit would cost and how much physical fitness it would add according to your current choice of terrain.
To train your horse, select a terrain and duration, then click the orange "Train" button under any one of the exercises to apply the training to it. The exercise will progress by a certain percentage, and the physical fitness boost and +3 affection will get added to your horse while the energy decreases. A timer starts to run that equals the duration you selected. A horse won't able to get trained again before the current timer has run down.
The player gains experience per training unit depending on the terrain and duration. The training progress of the horse also depends on these factors. It can pay off to play around to find how you get more experience points or the fastest training progress for your horse.
All exercises, as well as each level, start at 0% and get completed at 100%. Progress gets shown by blue colour filling the respective bar. There is no order in which the exercises of a training level must get worked on, but all exercises of the current level must be completed before the horse can level up. The more progress gets made across the exercises, the further the level bar will progress on the right side of the Training tab. When all training for a certain level is at 100%, an orange button appears on the lower-right side of the Training tab. This button allows you to level up your horse.
In competitions, a horse gets matched against contestants of the same training level. The competition scores improve as the horse's training progresses within its current level. With higher levels, the prize pool will increase. Through persistent training, a horse can reach the top level of its discipline!
¶ Training Progress in % depending on Time, Terrain and Discipline
| Basic Training | Time | ||||
| 15 | 30 | 45 | 60 | ||
| Terrain | Arena | 12 | 24 | 36 | 48 |
| Track | 24 | 48 | 72 | 95 | |
| Trail | 36 | 72 | 100 | 100 | |
| Dressage | Time | ||||
| 15 | 30 | 45 | 60 | ||
| Terrain | Arena | 4 | 8 | 11 | 15 |
| Track | 8 | 15 | 23 | 30 | |
| Trail | 11 | 23 | 34 | 45 | |
| Driving | Time | ||||
| 15 | 30 | 45 | 60 | ||
| Terrain | Arena | 4 | 8 | 12 | 15 |
| Track | 8 | 15 | 23 | 31 | |
| Trail | 12 | 23 | 35 | 45 | |
| Endurance | Time | ||||
| 15 | 30 | 45 | 60 | ||
| Terrain | Arena | 3 | 6 | 10 | 13 |
| Track | 6 | 13 | 19 | 25 | |
| Trail | 10 | 19 | 29 | 38 | |
| Eventing | Time | ||||
| 15 | 30 | 45 | 60 | ||
| Terrain | Arena | 5 | 10 | 15 | 20 |
| Track | 10 | 20 | 30 | 39 | |
| Trail | 15 | 30 | 44 | 59 | |
| Flat Racing | Time | ||||
| 15 | 30 | 45 | 60 | ||
| Terrain | Arena | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 |
| Track | 3 | 6 | 10 | 13 | |
| Trail | 5 | 10 | 14 | 19 | |
| Show Jumping | Time | ||||
| 15 | 30 | 45 | 60 | ||
| Terrain | Arena | 4 | 8 | 13 | 17 |
| Track | 8 | 17 | 25 | 33 | |
| Trail | 13 | 25 | 38 | 50 | |
| Western Reining | Time | ||||
| 15 | 30 | 45 | 60 | ||
| Terrain | Arena | 3 | 6 | 8 | 11 |
| Track | 6 | 11 | 17 | 22 | |
| Trail | 8 | 17 | 25 | 33 | |
¶ Roundpen
You can add a Roundpen to your estate. It must first be purchased on the horse overview page for a one-time fee of 2 500 HRC.
The Roundpen allows you to improve and maintain your horses' physical fitness and affection without doing actual training units. This is useful when you're unable or unwilling to train a horse - for example, when a foal with completed basic training is too young to select a discipline, or you wish to keep a horse at its current level for competitions, or you've fully maxed out the highest training level of its discipline.
You can use it to train any of your horses that have at least started basic training. Simply select the Roundpen as a terrain on the "Training" tab of the horse in question. Depending on the selected duration, the Roundpen unit costs the horse a certain amount of energy and grants a certain boost in fitness and +3 affection. Roundpen exercises also pay out experience points for the player.
Players with a premium account have access to the he “Roundpen all” button, which trains all available horses at once. This exercises them for 15 minutes and gives them +4% fitness, -4% energy and +3% affection. No experience points can be gained from using the Roundpen all button.
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Changelog
- On March 19th 2019, the Roundpen was added to the game[1]
- On October 4th 2023, the Roundpen all feature was added for premium accounts[2]