Guidebook

Introduction
This is a step-by-step guide through the lower levels of the game. There is no need to read it all if you don’t want to. You can use the content table to jump to the levels you are currently on. The links in the text will lead you to a wiki page that covers the subject in more detail, so visit the pages if you want to find out more.

The guide explains the basics of the game, gives some tips both regarding the game and the wiki, offers guidance on what can be prioritised or left alone at different points of the game and gives ideas on how to get started. It does not have to be followed letter by letter. The guide exists to offer some guidance only. There is nothing wrong with doing things your own way. The main thing is that you enjoy the game!

Levels 1-7 (Tutorial)
The tutorial takes you through the lowest levels pretty much on its own, and you can’t affect much of the game play at this point. Follow the tutorial, click on the buildings/horses/icons that are highlighted, and pay some attention to what you are doing. It’ll help you later on when you know where you can find the buildings shop, tack shop, steeplechases and how to grow food items.

Once the tutorial offers you a bit more freedom, focus on running the steeplechases. Those will earn you coins and you will need as much money as you can get. Upgrading buildings and building new ones is very expensive, so any coins you can get will help you immensely.

Your horses run out of energy very quickly at the beginning, because they only have 6-10 energy points. Feeding the horses will give them more energy as well as horse EXP (to level up the horse) and player EXP (for your own level ups).

To feed your horses, you need to be growing plants on your fields constantly. If you run out of storage space, sell some of the plants and feed. You will earn more money than what you used to plant the crop.

Higher level horses have more maximum energy points. Your first horse, the Quarter starts with 6 energy points, but at level 10 he will have 10 energy points. Leveling up your horse is rewarding, and from level 11 onwards he will have a chance to get skill upgrades from the level up wheel. Try not to feed your horse unless you have used the energy points in steeplechases first. Feeding will give them more energy, so you can run more steeplechases and earn more money.

Breeding is exciting, but you only have few stables at the beginning. As much fun as it can be, you should only breed enough horses to fill the stables, but no more. Breeding takes coins and you really need those for buildings that need to be built and upgraded so that you can continue on with the game.

Keep an eye out for all of the buildings and upgrades that you unlock with each level up. You should build the fields and the feed mills as soon as you get them, and try to keep up with the Farm Center and Stables upgrades. The Paddock and the Market can wait until you have more money, since they are not that important in the beginning.

Do not forget to check the quests and claim everything you have completed! They offer you quite a lot of money and player EXP, so completing the quests will be worth it. There is also a Breeding Quest Series, which will ask you to breed horses for immediate rewards but will also offer you an Exclusive Horse at the end of the series.

Breeding - The basics
Main article: Breeding

Breeding is one of the most exciting parts of the game and everyone wants to keep breeding new foals. Here is a quick recap of the basics of the breeding. For more detailed information, go to the breeding page.

At the start of the game, you will be crossbreeding a lot. This means that you are breeding together two horses that are different breeds to create a third breed. The tutorial made you breed your Quarter with Amy’s Appaloosa, which gave you an option to get another Quarter, an Appaloosa or a Mustang. You spun the wheel and it landed on one of the possible foals.

Purebreeding means that you are breeding two horses that are the same breed, for example two Quarters. The result of purebreeding will always be a horse of the same breed. However, you can get a higher tier horse. Breeding two tier 1 Quarters will give you two options for tier 1 Quarter and one option for tier 2 Quarter. Tier 2 Quarter will have better skills and look a bit different than the tier 1 Quarter. If you breed two tier 2 Quarters, you will have a chance of getting a tier 3 Quarter. Tier 3 is the highest tier you can get before level 16.

To breed your own horses, tap on the breeding house and drag two of your horses from the horse list to the left side of the screen. To breed with a friend’s horse, visit the friend’s ranch, tap the horse you want to breed with and tap the breed button and then drag your own horse from the list to complete the breeding pair.

You can use diamonds to either boost your chances to get the foal you want or to respin if you didn’t get what you wanted. However this is not necessary, but you better get used to not getting what you want every time.

Level 8
Amy lends you a horse on the level 8. You can only use the horse for running steeplechases, but the horse will most likely be better than any of your own, so make the most of the chance and earn as many coins as you can.

Reaching level 8 unlocks the Daily Quests. These quest refresh at the same time every day. Completing all 5 of the quests will reward you 10 diamonds on top of the smaller rewards with each quest. There is also a bigger reward, a gift box, that can be claimed by completing all of the quests multiple times.

Once again, pay attention to things you can upgrade. Upgrading the Storage will give you more space for food items, upgrading the stables and farm center means that you can earn more coins, and you need to always have at least one field that is upgraded to the highest possible level, so that you can plant the crops your horses may request.

You can now run in the Russia steeplechase as well. Horses are slower running through the snowy grounds and it costs 8 energy points to run there. Blue coins are worth 2 coins and the appearance fee is higher than in the Mexico steeplechase, so you can earn a nice amount of money there.

Level 9
You can build another field and upgrade Farm Center, Storage and Paddock to level 3. Market is unlocked. Prioritising Farm Center and stables is recommended, since those earn you money to continue upgrading the rest of the buildings. Paddock and Market can wait.

On level 9 you get a Subscription demo that shows you all of the benefits of buying a monthly subscription. This will last only for a couple of days, so make the most of it. You will have a magnet in the steeplechases, so all of the coins will be drawn to you and thus collected automatically, so you can focus on jumping the obstacles. You will also get +20% coins at the end. So if you collected 1000 coins in the steeplechase, you will actually get 1200!

You can also now participate in the Steeplechase Skill Event. You can run the distances to earn rewards, such as common jewels, dream jewels, horse EXP and skill upgrades. Be warned thought that in the beginning, you will have to use lots of diamonds if you wish to reach the required distances after the first few milestones. You have to run the milestones one by one, starting from the shortest distance. You cannot claim all rewards during one run. It is not recommended to start upgrading a starter horse (e.g. a Quarter).

Clubs are also now open to you. They are very convenient way of adding friends. Check the clubs and join them. Send everyone in the club a friend request before leaving the club. You will have to wait 30 minutes, but after that you can join another club. Again, send friend invites to all members in the club before leaving the club. Repeat this to gain more friends very quickly. This is called club hopping. Friends are useful since they can help you by speeding up crops, feeds, and buildings. You can also borrow their horses for breeding to get new breeds yourself. Later on they can also be used for training horses.

Level 10
You can now upgrade your Fields to level 4 to grow soybeans, build a new feed mill, and upgrade your Market to level 3. Again, make sure to upgrade at least one of your fields to level 4 and keep growing soybeans on that field, so that you have them when your horses want to eat some.

Amy lends you another horse so that you can run steeplechases. Again, make the most of this and keep running them whenever the lended horse has enough energy to run them. You will need the extra cash.

The Horsepedia is now unlocked. It’s an in-game information center that shows you all of the breeds and how to breed them. You will get rewards from there as well when you breed new breeds, so remember to check it every now and then. The Horsepedia will only show you some of the breeds. Rest are locked. With every level up you will unlock more breeds in the Horsepedia. However, you can breed any Common horse you want to at any point. You don’t have to meet the level requirement as long as you know how to breed them. That is where the wiki comes useful. Every horse has a list of ways to breed it on their own page. All of the Horsepedia recipes can also be found from the Horsepedia page.

Breeding - What to aim for at level 10+
Now that you have learned the basics of the game and are getting started with your ranches, it’s time to start focusing on what to breed.

The horses are born with different skills. You can see the skills from the horse breed’s page or from the Skill Chart that has all base skills of the game’s breeds and tiers. You can get upgrades to the skills from the level up wheel (when your horse is level 11-15) or from the Steeplechase Skill Event.

Your goal at the beginning should be a horse with good base skills. Speed makes your horse run faster in a steeplechase, stamina will allow your horse to run for longer distances and jump will make you horse jump higher to clear even the highest obstacles on course. You should focus on horses with high stamina skill, as they will run for longer and earn you more money from the steeplechases.

One of the firm favourites in the beginning is the Arabian. It’s a Rare horse on tier 1, but it will go up the rarity ladder to Mythic on tier 3, so by the end it’s a great horse to have. It is only unlocked in the Horsepedia at level 19, but as we learned earlier, you can breed any horse as long as you know what breeds you need for it. To find out that, go to the page Arabian on the wiki. From there you can work your way down to find out how to breed the horses needed for Arabian. I will walk you through this next. Try to do the same for the Fjord now on your own. Learning to navigate the wiki will help you in the long run when you are trying to breed something else.
 * 1) Open the Arabian page. Scroll down to the How to Breed section. Look at the options there. I decided that I want to aim for the breeding recipe that uses Friesian and Fjord.
 * 2) Open the Friesian page, and again scroll down, look at the options on how to breed a Friesian. I decided to use the breeding recipe of Missouri Fox Trotter and Tennessee Walking, because they are low-level horses and thus easier for me to breed right now.
 * 3) Open the Tennessee Walking page. I see that I need Andalusian and can borrow Mustang/Appaloosa/Quarter from Amy, if I don't have one myself.
 * 4) Open the Andalusian page. I see that I can breed one with Quarter and Mustang. I have the Quarter from the very beginning, so I can borrow a Mustang from Amy. Now I can breed an Andalusian.
 * 5) Once I have an Andalusian, I can move back to step 3. I can borrow the other parent horse from Amy, so now I can breed a Tennessee Walking.
 * 6) Now I need to do the same for the Missouri Fox Trotter. After that, I will have both of the horses I need for the Friesian. So, I open the page for the Missouri Fox Trotter. I see that I need a Canadian Pacer and can borrow the other parent (Quarter/Standardbred/Mustang) from Amy if I don’t have them anymore.
 * 7) Open the Canadian Pacer page. I see that I need a Standardbred, but I can borrow that from Amy, so I only need one of the other parents. I have a Mustang, so I decide to breed my Mustang mare to Amy’s Standardbred stallion.
 * 8) Once I have the Canadian Pacer, I can move back to step 6. I can borrow one of the other parent horses from Amy and breed that horse with my Canadian Pacer to try for a Missouri Fox Trotter.
 * 9) Now I can breed my Missouri Fox Trotter and Tennessee Walking together for a chance to get a Friesian.

Here’s my plan on how to get a Fjord: And then, as a final step, I can breed my Friesian and Fjord together for a chance to get the Arabian. As you can see, I got many other horses on my way to Arabian, but that's alright. Collecting horses is fun! I know it sounds like a long process, but in reality it took me only two days to get Arabian this way, starting from the situation that I only had a Quarter.
 * 1) Open the Fjord page. I already have the Tennessee Walking from trying to get a Friesian, so I decided to use the breeding recipe of Tennessee Walking and American Indian.
 * 2) Open the American Indian page. I need a Canadian and Mustang/Appaloosa/Standardbred (Amy has all of these three). So I’m focusing on getting a Canadian.
 * 3) Open the Canadian page. I need Appaloosa and Mustang/Tennessee Walking. Amy has an Appaloosa, so I can use my Tennessee Walking with the Appaloosa - or if I have one myself, I can use that too.
 * 4) Now that I have the Canadian, I can do the step 2 to try for an American Indian.
 * 5) Once I have the American Indian, I can go back to step 1 and breed my Tennessee Walking and American Indian together to try for the Fjord.

Finding friends with horses you need will help you skip the steps. For example, if I had a friend who had Friesian, I wouldn’t have to bother getting a Friesian. I would only work towards the Fjord and borrow my friend’s Friesian once I have a Fjord to try for the Arabian. If I didn’t get the Arabian on the first try, I could get a Friesian from the breeding. Or if I had a friend with Tennessee Walking, I could just work on getting a Missouri Fox Trotter, and then breed friend’s Tennessee Walking to my Missouri Fox Trotter for a chance to get the Friesian.

Adding as many friends as possible will raise your odds of finding what you need from your friends. If you connect your game to Facebook, you can join HHWA Facebook groups to find players with the horses you need, which will also help you to skip some steps.

It’s not the end of the world if you can’t find horses you need. It just means that you have to do more breedings, but you will get rewarded for that since you can get more breeds checked off from the Horsepedia and will get the diamond rewards for doing that.

Level 11
Congrats, you have now unlocked a second ranch! The tutorial will take you to the Deauville ranch in France. You can now travel between your two ranches by tapping the world icon in the top left corner and then the flag of the ranch you wanna go to.

Now there are another set of buildings to unlock and keep track of. The tutorial makes you build an Apple Tree, but after that you can start unlocking and building other things too. Once again, it is recommended that you start with the Farm Center. You cannot move any horses to France until level 12, so you can leave the stables for now. Unlocking the Storage building will give you a lot more storage space, so that might be something you want to build as soon as possible too.

You don’t have to worry about moving apples back to USA when your horses start to request those. The storage is shared between all of your ranches, so harvesting apples in France will make them available in the USA automatically.