All Horses of Hoofprint Bay guides
Most of your income in Horses of Hoofprint Bay comes from championships, horse sales, and stallion semen. The right farm upgrades open each of these up. A level 3 parking lot, for example, lets you race up to 10 horses every day.
The game also hides a lot of small touches around the farm and town. A foal’s confidence depends on its mother, stallions fight over mares, and the tack on each fence matches its pasture group.
4 Ways to Earn Money on Your Farm
You start the game with a single horse. If you are new, follow the quests. They pay you and teach you the basics. If you would rather speed things up, put your money into the buildings below first.
Parking Lot
Upgrade this first. More parking space means you can take more horses to competitions. At level 3, you can race up to 10 horses in several competitions each day. It is also the cheapest part of the farm to upgrade.
With several horses entered in championships every day, each win brings in more money. Use it to pay for the next upgrades on your farm.
Stat Breeding
Breeding for stats is slow work. The fastest way is to hire Fiete to care for your horses while you skip through the days. Horses with higher stats sell for more. If you keep a horse and win a few championships with it first, its value goes up even further.
Breeding Station Level 3
A level 3 breeding station lets you sell your stallions’ semen. This earns well without much work. A stallion that wins many races sells his semen for more, and his foals fetch higher prices too.
Boarding
Once you reach a high enough level, most of your money comes from breeding and champion horses, so boarding matters less. You can still take part or full boarders and keep them in fields where Fiete looks after them.
Small Details to Appreciate
The game is full of small details that many other games would leave out. Here are some worth looking for.
Stables Level 2: The Hose
Level 2 stables come with a hose for filling the water troughs. Look closely and you will see it runs around the building instead of straight through it.
Foals Running Back to Their Mother on Walks
When you take a mare for a walk, her foal comes along. It runs ahead, then turns back once it gets too far from her. It is a simple mechanic, but it gives foals a bit of extra personality.
Foal Confidence
A mare’s confidence carries over to her foal. The more confident she is, the more confident the foal will be once it becomes a yearling. This works both ways, so a mare can affect her foal for better or worse.
Scenery
The town is packed with detail. You can spot a small market, someone’s garden, a cafeteria with a table nobody has cleared yet, the riding championship arena, and a fountain at the center of it all.
Stallion Behavior
A stallion can get your mare pregnant if they share a field. Put more than one stallion in a field with a single mare and they will fight over her.
Yearlings
Yearlings actually use the little shed in their field.
Colour Coordinating
Check the fence of each field. The tack hanging on it matches the colour of the pasture group the horses belong to.
Horse Behavior in the Fields
Your horses strike all sorts of cute poses out in the fields. You will find them grazing side by side, grooming each other, and in plenty of other positions.
