Horse care

Horse care refers to the different activities that have to do with a horse's wellbeing, as well as their behavior. Keeping up with your horse's care is essential for it to be ready for horse training and competitions.

### Care stats

Upon entering the stall, you will have to choose the horse you want to take care of. In this screen, you will see your horse's name, sex, breed and coat. You will also see different bars relating to your horse's health and behavior.

#### Cleanliness

This group of stats refer to the cleanliness of the horse and its environment.

* To fill up the **coat** bar, you must brush your horse.
	+ Coat will decay -10 overnight if you haven't ridden the horse, but -25 if you have.
* You fill up the **hoof** bar, you must pick your horse's hooves.
	+ Hoof will decay -10 overnight if you haven't ridden the horse, but -25 if you have.
* To fill up the **stall** bar, you must clean your horse's stall.
	+ Stall will decay -25 overnight.

These activities are further explained and detailed below.

#### Other stats

This group of stats refer to other needs a horse has that do not have to do with education or cleanliness.

* The **physique** bar has to do with your horse's health and level of exertion. If your horse has an illness or if you have trained him in horse training disciplines, the bar will decrease.
	+ Physique will restore 50 overnight.
* The **morale** bar has to do with your horse's willingness to train. Morale increases after winning competitions, and if you leave your horse at the pasture for a while. However, make sure not to leave it there when there is bad weather or overnight, as it can catch a cold.
	+ Moral will decay -25 overnight.
* The **appetite** bar can be filled up by feeding your horse.
	+ Appetite will decay -25 overnight.

#### Education

This group of stats refers to your horse's education, bonding, and behavior.

* The **trust** bar can be filled up by doing the dialog activity.
* The **training** bar can be filled up by doing the training activity.

These activities are further explained and detailed below.

#### Health

At the bottom of this screen, you will see if your horse has any illness that needs treatment, indicated by an icon.

### Stall

#### Treatments

The treatments can be found in the medicine cabinet by the entrance of the stall. There, you will be able to administer any kind of medical treatment that is necessary for your horse. Doing so, will increase the physique stat and also remove any icon that was shown in the health section, indicating any sort of illness.

Cold

Fly infestation

Foot infection

Skin irritation

Stomach ache

Worms

#### Brushing

When brushing the horse, you must maintain the LEFT button of the mouse pressed as you move the brush up and down or side to side. You can rotate the camera with the arrows on the keyboard. You have access to three different brushes: the curry comb, the dandy brush and the body brush. Each brush can be selected from the icons at the right of the screen. The curry comb is the harshest, and it hurts the horse if you try to use it on its face. The body brush is the softest. They are supposed to be used in order.

If done correctly, the coat stat bar should be filled up to the max.

#### Hoof-picking

When picking the horse's hooves, you must select each one of them from the icons at the right of the screen. By maintaining the LEFT button on your mouse clicked, use the pick to remove the dirt from the hooves, but avoid the frog (triangle area at the top of the hoof) because it hurts the horse.

If done correctly, the hoof stat bar should be filled up to the max.

#### Cleaning the stall

This activity will be in first person mode. Click the LEFT button of your mouse to use the pitchfork and collect all the dung and dirty hay from the floor of the stall. Then, place them in the wheelbarrow. When the floor is clean, take some clean hay by clicking on the same button and spread it around by clicking the RIGHT button of your mouse. You can take up to five pieces of hay. Spread them as much as you can, as it maximizes the cleanliness of the stall.

If done correctly, the stall stat bar should be filled up to the max.

#### Feed

To feed the horse, simply walk up to the trough and click SPACEBAR. This will trigger a small cutscene, automatically filling up the appetite stat bar.

### Pasture

The pasture is an outside area that can be accessed from the stall. It contains three extra activities: training, dialog and shower. Training and dialog will affect not only the horse's stats, but also Emma's.

Emma has four stat bars of her own that start out empty.

* **Popularity** can be increased by buying items from the market street stalls or Hilda's shop, as well as winning competitions.
* **Training** can be increased by doing the training activity, explained below.
* **Communication** can be increased by doing the dialog activity, explained below.
* **Champion vision** is an ability that Emma acquires as she becomes a better rider and wins more competitions.

#### Training

This is a lunging activity in which you must use the arrow keys to control your horse's speed and direction so that in matches the arrows. At the same time, you must maintain your cursor inside the pink triangular area and collect the green tokens to improve your horse's learning while avoiding the red ones.

If done correctly, the training stat bar will go up as well as Emma's training bar.

#### Dialog

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This is an activity that has to do with observing the horse's behavior and giving an appropriate response. The different responses are divided in four areas: affection, care, game and education.

If done correctly, the trust stat bar will go up as well as Emma's communication bar.

##### Affection

Horse rubs its face against you.

*"Caress the horse affectionately"*
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Horse walks up to you, nudges you and walks away.
*"Give the horse an affectionate kiss"*
Horse scratches his leg with his nose.
*"Scratch the horse energetically"*
*"Let the Foal go to sleep"*
Foal looks like it is falling asleep.

##### Care

Horse rolls around on the ground.
*"Brush the horse"*

Horse turns around, stops, and returns to the initial position.
*"Pat the horse's flanks"*
Horse puts leg up and does not put it back down.
"Rub the horse's foot"
Foal puts leg up and cannot put it back down.

##### Game

Horse steps back, stomps and then walks forward.
*"Have the horse salute"*

Horse steps back and then forward, pushing the air with its face.
*"Use the horse ball with handles with the horse"*

##### Education

Horse sways its head side to side and stomps.
*"Make the horse walk sideways, with little steps"*

Horse puts up his leg and puts it back down-
*"Have the horse rear up"*
Horse prances slightly sideways and then returns to the initial position.
*"Have the horse lie down on its side"*

#### Shower

At the right-most part of the pasture, you will have the option to shower your horse with a hose. This must only be done when the day is clear, as showering your horse in bad weather will result in it falling ill. To shower your horse, simply maintain the RIGHT button of your mouse clicked and move the hose side to side. You can also move slightly left to right with the arrow keys.