On the horse overview page, you can view the stable capacity of your estate, purchase new facilities like the Roundpen and use the Premium Account features Care for all and Roundpen all.
When you join Horse Reality, you get 6 stables to get you started. Every horse needs its own stable, except for foals younger than six months who will stay by their dam’s side. If you want to grow your estate you need to buy more stables. Having more horses than stables is possible, but comes with certain restrictions.
¶ Capacity
You can see your own stable capacity on the horse overview page, on the online users list, or you can get the best overview on your own player profile that you can access by clicking on your username and looking in the grey box labelled "Estate".
The first line consists of two numbers that show your own capacity. The first number shows how many stables are occupied by horses (in the example image below: 235) and the second number is the total amount of stables you own (in the example: 250). The line below says how many adult horses you own who each take up their own stable (here: 235). One line further you see how many foals under 6 months of age you own (here: 42). These stand with their dams and don't count toward your capacity yet. Once they turn 6 months and wean, they will take up a stable each. Further below you see the number of foals that are boarded at the Foal Pastures (here: 2). Those also don't count towards your capacity yet. Once they turn 3 years old, they'll return and take up a stable each. The last stat in the info box shows your number of reserved stables. These have been temporarily reserved for horses you hold leading bids on at auctions. Should you win, they'll move into your estate and need a stable.
¶ Exceeding the Capacity
It's possible to own more horses than stables, for example, if a foal weans overnight and requires its own stable, but you were already at maximum capacity.
Nothing happens to your horses if you exceed your capacity. They won't get taken away, they won't get put up for public sale, they won't get retired, and they won't drop dead. No penalty fees get charged either. You can still enter your horses into competitions or shows, train them, and care for them.
However, once you have no free stables (e.g. 50/50 capacity), you can no longer buy horses from the Foundation or other players and you cannot catch feral horses in the Wildlife Parks. These abilities return as soon as you have at least one open stable again. Keep in mind that reserved slots count towards your capacity, so you couldn't place bids on several horses when you only have one stable left.
When your horse count exceeds your number of stables (e.g. 51/50 capacity), you lose the ability to breed your horses. Ongoing pregnancies will continue, but you can no longer cover your mares with your own or public studs. Again, this ability returns as soon as you're no longer over-capacity.
¶ Freeing Up Capacity
There are 3 ways to free up stables:
- Send weaned foals to the foal pastures where they will stay until they are 3 years old
- Sell horses on the market (permanent)
- Retire horses (permanent)
¶ Stable Blocks
You can add Stable Blocks to your estate to better organise your horses. By default, you have the “unassigned” and “ALL” stable blocks. These can't be edited or removed.
To add a Stable Block, click on the “+” icon. Enter a name and then click on the small checkmark icon to save the Stable Block. Existing Stable Blocks can be edited or removed by clicking on them and selecting the pencil or trashcan icons. When a Stable Block gets removed, any horses in it will be moved to the “unassigned” block.
Horses can be moved to a different stable block using the “move" button, or through their horse profile. The move button allows you to move several horses at once.
The search bar can be used to look up horses in the selected Stable Block by name. With the Filter option, you can filter your horses by breed, discipline, sex, or age, or change how your horses are sorted.
¶ Purchasing Facilities
There are two types of facilities that can be purchased from the horse overview page: stables and the roundpen. The button that allows buying them is located at the left upper corner, next to the capacity display and under your estate's name.
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Stables
If you think you need more space to keep more horses you can increase the number of stables you own. You can acquire an additional 19 stables just by levelling up. You can also buy stables on your horse overview page: You can purchase up to 25 stables or 5 000 HRC each, any additional ones will cost you 500 DP. 250 stables is the maximum a player can own. This number may increase in the future, there are no plans to do so in the near future, however.
| Stables | How to Get Them | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | Starter Setup | free |
| 19 | Levelling Up | free |
| 25 | Buy on the Horse Overview Page | 5 000 HRC per stable |
| 200 | Buy on the Horse Overview Page | 500 DP per stable |
| Total Number of Stables Obtainable: 250 | ||
¶ Roundpen
You can add a Roundpen to your estate, which 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.
The Roundpen must first be purchased on the horse overview page for a one-time fee of 2 500 HRC. Once this is done, 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.
¶ Premium Features
Players with a Premium Account have access to two additional features on the horse overview page.
¶ Care for all
A button to care for all your horses at once (Care-for-all button aka CFA button).
¶ Roundpen all
If you have purchased a Roundpen for your estate, the “Roundpen all” button trains all available horses (horses that have started their basic training and are not currently under a training cooldown) 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.
¶ Changelog
- On March 19th 2019, the Roundpen was added to the game[1]
- On June 24th 2019, the Care for all feature was added to the game[2]
- On July 28th 2020, the maximum stable capacity was increased from 200 to 225[3][4]
- On September 10th 2020, the Estate page was moved to V2[5]
- On December 16th 2020, the maximum stable capacity was increased from 225 to 250[6]
- On January 20 2021, an adjustment was made so that players who move their estate will automatically be moved to their new location, instead of having to travel through the airport[7]
- On March 10th 2021, a small bugfix was implemented[8]
- On September 7th 2022, the Horse Overview page was moved to V2 and Estate page was integrated into it[9]
- On September 21st 2022, some changes were made to the horse overview page[10]
- On October 190th 2022, a small bugfix was implemented[11]
- On November 16th 2022, some QoL changes were added[12]
- On October 4th 2023, the Roundpen all feature was added for premium accounts[13]
- On July 31st 2024, some small bugfixes were added[14]
¶ References
- https://www.horsereality.com/forum/topic_6918/thursday-march-21st-update-status-done
- https://www.horsereality.com/forum/topic_10902/update-speed-optimisation-qol-changes-and-30-day-logins
- https://v2.horsereality.com/news/25/brumby-arrival-on-july-28th-rules-update-thoroughbred-community-poll-foundation-names-changed
- https://v2.horsereality.com/news/27/the-brumbies-are-here-new-forum-set-up
- https://v2.horsereality.com/news/30/community-update-retirement-home-estates-page-rankings-page-on-v2-new-art-intern-quality-of-life-tweaks-artwork-bugfixes-new-background
- https://v2.horsereality.com/news/45/community-update-christmas-surprise-remake-of-the-irish-cob-gypsy-horse
- https://v2.horsereality.com/news/49/community-update-strategy-sprint-v2-transfer-of-settings-page-horse-breeds-roadmap-artwork-credit-rule
- https://v2.horsereality.com/news/53/community-update-market-transferred-to-v2-improvements-discord-scams-march-background-daylight-savings-time-bug-fixes
- https://v2.horsereality.com/news/111/community-update-status-update-new-horse-overview-reimbursements-discord-server-16-now
- https://v2.horsereality.com/news/113/community-update-development-roadmap-birthday-week-plans
- https://v2.horsereality.com/news/115/community-update-arabian-horse-redo-foal-calendar-scheduled-downtime-for-server-move-discord-birthday-contest-winners
- https://v2.horsereality.com/news/118/community-update-horse-overview-qol-competition-fixes-christmas-contest-bug-fixes-more
- https://v2.horsereality.com/news/141/community-update-5th-anniversary-investment-mongolian-horse-release-premium-feature-more
- https://v2.horsereality.com/news/178/release-notes-fixes-to-stable-block-assignment-and-club-show-pagination