Proficiency and Training



Your horse's proficiency and training are a factor in how well you do in competitions and how much your horse is worth if you sell it. There are several ways you can affect proficiency and tailor your horse to specific talents.

Proficiency vs. Training
Proficiency (or more accurately, Max Proficiency) is a trait that can be passed down genetically, while Training (Affinity, Foal Training, and Luck) cannot be passed down. New foals will have no Training levels.

Breeding a low or medium proficiency horse with a higher proficiency horse will yield a foal with slightly higher proficiency than the low-to-medium horse. Best results are achieved when both horses have maxed out their Proficiency bars, or trained as much as possible. In this way, you can increase Max Proficiency over multiple generations by always breeding to higher proficiency horses. Read more on the Breeding page.

Foal Training
Foal Training is unlocked at level 44 and costs 50 coins. It is also available as a free gift from your Riding Pals.

Each Foal Training session costs your horse 6 energy, so you can only train once between resting.

Foal Training permanently raises the general proficiency of your horse. Each training raises it by 15 points until you reach your horse's Max Proficiency. When you reach your Max Proficiency, training more than that will raise the proficiency above the Max Proficiency by up to 1.5 each time.

Affinity
Affinity training is only available when your horse is still a foal. Each session costs 300 coins and raises your horse's Affinity for a particular event by one level. Each level adds 5% of your proficiency when you're participating in that particular type of competition. For example, when a horse with 40 proficiency and a level 5 Racing Affinity competes in Racing, then it will perform as if it has 25% (level 5 x 5%) more proficiency, or 50 total proficiency. When that horse is competing in any other competition, it will perform with its actual 40 proficiency.

Luck
Luck does not affect competitions. Your horse's Luck increases the chances of finding collectibles when you go on Riding Tours by 0.5% for each level of Luck. It increases when your Riding Pals visit your stables and Play with your foal.

Some players like to wait for a few days while the horse is still a foal so their Riding Pals will play with it and increase its luck before it becomes an adult. Once the foal becomes an adult, you cannot increase its Luck anymore.

The maximum Luck is level 30. Once your foal reaches that, Riding Pals will not be able to play with it anymore.