Translations:Pferd & Pony – Mein Pferdehof/15/en

Riding
There is no open world, you can only enter riding mode by navigating to the training paddock, riding out cross country, or entering a tournament. The game will then load a sub-program (game devs, please give me a professional term), in which you control your horse's gait (Walk, Trot, Canter, Gallop) and speed within the gait with arrow keys and jump with space. The animation is a side-scrolling 2D with a set start and finish. You need to jump obstacles while in the right speed at the right time. In training, you need to beat a time limit and not fall down in order to get to the next level of training, while in tournaments, you need to beat NPC times (which slightly vary randomly), while falling or refusing jumps does not disqualify you, but slows you down significantly. While riding, you can see colorful bars displaying speed, strength, endurance, and trust. Also there's a colorful horse changing color according to the horse's wellbeing. If it stays blue or green, you are riding carefully and giving it enough rest, while yellow towards red warns you of injuries to come. The way you ride will affect the horse's stats within the ride and afterwards. If you fall a lot, or gallop without giving the horse enough time to recover, the horse will lose health points. It can also get injuries, which heal over time or can be treated at the vet's. Falling or refusing a jump will also subtract trust points, while successful jumps (even when there is no obstacle) will increase trust. If you race your horse until the red strength bar is completely empty, the ride will be over for you. If you give it some time in slower gaits without jumps, it will recover its strength. How fast strength decays depends on the endurance stat. The more trust you build, the more readily your horse will react to changing gaits.