If you no longer want your horse and cannot or don't want to sell it, you can choose to retire it. Gisela provides a loving home for unwanted horses of all ages. She is a non-player character who owns retirement homes on all continents.
Once you retire a horse, it transfers into Gisela's ownership. Retiring a horse is permanent. You can retire your horse from the Retirement Home page or by using the “Retire horse” button on the Update tab of the horse profile. Clicking it leads directly to the retirement home with the horse preselected. After you do so, you cannot get your horse back. Make sure to double-check before clicking and make sure that you have made up your mind!
Once a horse is retired you will no longer be able to care for, train, show, compete or breed with the horse. As the former owner, you will still be able to view its conformation, genetic potential and health stats. Horses continue to age in the retirement home and will eventually die of old age. Once they die, they will no longer be listed in the retirement home because Gisela only takes care of the living.
Retiring a pregnant mare causes her pregnancy to get terminated – no foal will be born.
Mares with unweaned foals behave as follows:
When retiring a foal less than six months old, it continues to be displayed next to its mother. Once it turns six months old, it automatically leaves your stables and shows up in the retirement home.
When you retire a mare with a foal less than six months old, the foal will first stay next to its mother. Once it becomes six months old, it automatically leaves the retirement home and returns to your stable.