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Simmerville
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago

Horse breeds, traits, skills and geographical references

Updated: On my "community section" There is now a page with info on horse breeds, traits and skills, with details on what might help (or nor help) regarding competition disciplines. Also added hints to in what geographical region (sim worlds) some breeds might be more common.
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I planned getting HR no earlier than November, but over the past few days the urge did grow and I feel there is no longer any way for me to wait that long, lol. Can't afford it (just got GrT) but then the next few RL weeks seem to be less social, so there might be an opening budget wise, anyway. It's way cheaper buying one EP than to eat one meal in a restaurant :)

To the topic - I prefer certain logics in my game, at least where it should be easy doing the right thing. So, I'd like my sims to have the right horse specie for their world. I guess any horse can thrive in any world, even if I go the realistic route, but is there any horse specie + world match that is quite obvious? Like will a certain specie like it better in Windenburg than in Sulani? In Henford than Mt Komorebi?

A few ideas would be great! If this kind of info is given in CAS, I can of course look it up there when choosing the horse.
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  • dianed485's avatar
    dianed485
    Seasoned Traveler
    2 years ago
    The worlds don't have any influence on Horses, but Chestnut Ridge is the most adapted in terms of routing and convenience (you find obstacles, barrels and prairie grass scattered in Chestnut Ridge but not in other worlds, for instance).

    As for routing, In mount Komorebi for instance, Horses can't access the trail with the red Temple and bamboo forest because it has stairs leading to it, but they can access the trail in the Snowy/Ski resort area. Also some worlds have much smaller neighborhoods than others.
  • DaWaterRat's avatar
    DaWaterRat
    Seasoned Adventurer
    2 years ago
    The thing is, horse breeds have kinda spread. My mom raised Arabians in southern Indiana (US heartland) and there's a Lippezaner farm just up north from me. Medieval Times maintains an Andelusian ranch in Texas, etc. Horses are generally comfortable anywhere they have plenty of space to run and grass to graze on.

    That said, in general I'd associate breeds like the Paint, Mustang, and Appaloosa with areas like Chestnut Ridge and Oasis Springs; Lippezaners and Fresians with Windenberg; Andelusians with Tartosa; Shire, Welsh Cob, etc. with Henford on Bagley; and Thouroughbreds and Quarterhorses with more or less anywhere. But I'm sure that someone who knows horses better than I do can be more specific.

  • DaWaterRat's avatar
    DaWaterRat
    Seasoned Adventurer
    2 years ago
    "Simmerville;c-18300213" wrote:
    "DaWaterRat;c-18300197" wrote:
    The thing is, horse breeds have kinda spread. My mom raised Arabians in southern Indiana (US heartland) and there's a Lippezaner farm just up north from me. Medieval Times maintains an Andelusian ranch in Texas, etc. Horses are generally comfortable anywhere they have plenty of space to run and grass to graze on.

    That said, in general I'd associate breeds like the Paint, Mustang, and Appaloosa with areas like Chestnut Ridge and Oasis Springs; Lippezaners and Fresians with Windenberg; Andelusians with Tartosa; Shire, Welsh Cob, etc. with Henford on Bagley; and Thouroughbreds and Quarterhorses with more or less anywhere. But I'm sure that someone who knows horses better than I do can be more specific.


    Wow, thanks - that's a lot of info. I will go for at least some of those.

    Are any particular breed the more commonly used for racing/jumping, or will i mainly be down to training and the person on top?


    For racing and jumping, Thouroughbreds are the most common, with Arabians, Anglo Arabians, and Akhal-teke also up there. They're light, high-endurance animals.

    (Fun trivia - an Arabian myth has Allah creating the horse by ordering the wind to condense itself into an animal.)
  • dreaming22's avatar
    dreaming22
    2 years ago
    "DaWaterRat;c-18300197" wrote:
    The thing is, horse breeds have kinda spread. My mom raised Arabians in southern Indiana (US heartland) and there's a Lippezaner farm just up north from me. Medieval Times maintains an Andelusian ranch in Texas, etc. Horses are generally comfortable anywhere they have plenty of space to run and grass to graze on.

    That said, in general I'd associate breeds like the Paint, Mustang, and Appaloosa with areas like Chestnut Ridge and Oasis Springs; Lippezaners and Fresians with Windenberg; Andelusians with Tartosa; Shire, Welsh Cob, etc. with Henford on Bagley; and Thouroughbreds and Quarterhorses with more or less anywhere. But I'm sure that someone who knows horses better than I do can be more specific.



    I'd say Quarter Horses in Chestnut Ridge too. Morgans would feel right at home in Brindleton Bay and the Warmblood breeds can fit into Windenburg nicely. Saddlebreds might do for Willow Creek along with the Fox Trotter and Tennessee Walker.
  • dreaming22's avatar
    dreaming22
    2 years ago
    "Simmerville;c-18300213" wrote:


    Wow, thanks - that's a lot of info. I will go for at least some of those.

    Are any particular breed the more commonly used for racing/jumping, or will i mainly be down to training and the person on top?


    Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses are more the flat racing type (along with Thoroughbreds doing steeplechasing). Thoroughbreds are kind of a big thing, there's been a lot of good stallions from the American racing scene that have been imported to Japan and Asia, one of the big (and I mean BIG) time stallions for Japan was Sunday Silence, and American breeders didn't want him at all. He was shipped to Japan, and turned into one of their most influential stallions of all time.

    But really, anything that can be raced usually races. The foundation sire for the Morgan breed was supposed to have beaten two Thoroughbreds. Standardbreds became the thing for harness racing. Heck, Austria has Haflinger racing. It pretty much comes down to one dude saying "my horse is faster than yours" to another dude.
  • Simmerville's avatar
    Simmerville
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago
    Thanks @Haflinger , I'm impressed with all this info, and I've taken notes for my game :)

    This far only 2 households bought horses, one rescued 3 animals so I did care more about their traits than breed, as they are going to be available to new Riders. It's an equestrian club running the place. The other household was most focused on buying a good looking horse for their good looking stable. I though I could see the breeds later on, but the game seems to hide that info once the horse is a household member (see next post).

    Now I'm going to CAS to get a horse, it's the first time I check them in there. Been busy building. Love this pack and the world!
  • Simmerville's avatar
    Simmerville
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago
    For the record - the info on horse breed is not gone like I thought. I still can't find the info in a horse's personal profile, but like for cats and dogs the breed is available by clicking the little bottom-left round household member icon from the world view.

    It's found in CAS also, but probably only when the horse was created in CAS, and not for rescued horses.
  • Simmerville's avatar
    Simmerville
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago
    "Dianesims;c-18300173" wrote:
    The worlds don't have any influence on Horses, but Chestnut Ridge is the most adapted in terms of routing and convenience (you find obstacles, barrels and prairie grass scattered in Chestnut Ridge but not in other worlds, for instance).

    As for routing, In mount Komorebi for instance, Horses can't access the trail with the red Temple and bamboo forest because it has stairs leading to it, but they can access the trail in the Snowy/Ski resort area. Also some worlds have much smaller neighborhoods than others.


    Thanx, that's all great to know. Do you also know if any specific horse specie (I think there are 20-30 versions in CAS) would be more common for example in RL Japan/East Asia? Or in Europe vs America? I might travel with them across sim worlds, but I would like to learn more about what RL locations some of those possible species feel more at home in.
  • Simmerville's avatar
    Simmerville
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago
    "DaWaterRat;c-18300197" wrote:
    The thing is, horse breeds have kinda spread. My mom raised Arabians in southern Indiana (US heartland) and there's a Lippezaner farm just up north from me. Medieval Times maintains an Andelusian ranch in Texas, etc. Horses are generally comfortable anywhere they have plenty of space to run and grass to graze on.

    That said, in general I'd associate breeds like the Paint, Mustang, and Appaloosa with areas like Chestnut Ridge and Oasis Springs; Lippezaners and Fresians with Windenberg; Andelusians with Tartosa; Shire, Welsh Cob, etc. with Henford on Bagley; and Thouroughbreds and Quarterhorses with more or less anywhere. But I'm sure that someone who knows horses better than I do can be more specific.


    Wow, thanks - that's a lot of info. I will go for at least some of those.

    Are any particular breed the more commonly used for racing/jumping, or will i mainly be down to training and the person on top?
  • Simmerville's avatar
    Simmerville
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago
    On my "community section" There is now a page with info on horse breeds, traits and skills, with details on what might help (or nor help) regarding competition disciplines. Also added hints to in what geographical region (sim worlds) some breeds might be more common.
    Direct link to blog

    https://www.hinsides.no/ts4/registry/icons/company/C0251.jpg

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