Horses of Hoofprint Bay: Boarding Guide

Take boarding jobs through the office to earn money from horses you don't own. Each request lists the horse, the board type, the length of stay, and the payment. You then care for that horse until its owner collects it. Boarders are not your horses: you can't give them lessons, and some board types don't require riding or training at all.

The examples below come from demo-era footage, so treat specific prices and day counts as illustrations of how the system works, not fixed full-release values.

Where boarding requests appear

Open the office and compare the incoming requests. Check the horse, board type, stay length and payout before accepting. The contract determines whether you are taking on a care job or a training job.

The board types shown

The three arrangements shown in the demo work differently:

Full board is the simplest: you don't have to ride or train the horse, just make sure it's taken care of. Schooling board is the opposite — the owner wants the horse trained up, and in the example the targets were endurance and strength gains.

What changes when a horse is boarding

• No lessons. Lessons are tied to your own horses, so a boarder can't be used for them.
• Training still works. You can run training exercises with a boarder, which is the whole point of a schooling board.
• Care still applies. Grooming, hoof checks, and feeding apply to boarders just as they do to your own horses.
• The care goal may wait for pickup. One player guessed the boarded-horse care goal checks off once the horse goes home. The footage doesn't show it completing, so treat this as unconfirmed.

Choosing which requests to take

Weigh days against payout. In the footage, an 11-day part board at $550 was declined in favor of waiting for shorter, quicker-paying jobs, while a 6-day schooling board at $780 was accepted because it was fast and offered a new mechanic to try. That's a playstyle judgment, not a rule — there's no confirmed payout formula, cancellation penalty, or cap on how many boarders you can hold.

Boarders vs. your own horses

Keep two categories separate:

1. Your own horses — trainable, rideable, lesson-eligible, breedable.
2. Boarders — owned by someone else; you provide care and, for schooling boards, training.

Plan your stable work

Boarding trades your time and stable resources for income. Compare the work in each request with the horses you already need to care for and train. For related systems, see buying horses and riding lessons.