Caring for horses is essential if you want to keep training your horses and participate in conformation shows or competitions. If you ignore your horse's needs and they get truly hungry and thirsty, they will not replenish energy. This is the only penalty you receive for not caring for them. Caretaking and energy levels have no impact on the breeding, health or lifespan of horses, which means that in periods of low activity, you can safely leave your horses unattended. Grooming, however, is one of the aspects impacting scores in conformation shows and competitions. If you want your horses to score the best they can, make sure to groom them before entering them in shows.
Caring for horses can be done once a day after the players click the manual daily rollover button before entering the game for each day. The caretaking tasks can be found on the Summary tab of each horse. There are 5 tasks to complete:
Grooming impacts the performance of your horses in conformation shows and competitions.
Each task is accomplished instantly by clicking on the associated button, which fills the green bar, and inactivates the button until the next day. Clicking one of the buttons awards the player with +1 XP, so just by taking care of one horse, a player can gain +5 XP.
Premium players can care for all of their horses with just one click on the [Care for all horses] button in their stable blocks. However, this does not reward XP.