When you should lead
If the horse is injured, do not try to ride it to the clinic. The August 2025 overview shows the lead prompt used for a lame horse, and the rider controls are separate from that lead.
- Stand close to the horse until the lead prompt appears.
- Lead it to a trailer if the clinic is not nearby.
- Use the white trailer, hold to travel, and choose town parking.
- Lead the horse from town parking to June at Izzy’s vet clinic.
- Accept the treatment and pay the fee shown in that conversation.
The overview also shows a hose on the hotbar and warns that it pulls the character around. Leave it alone while you are leading.
Ways a horse went lame in that tutorial
The video demonstrates a long hard gallop and repeated jumps into solid fences as causes in that session. It does not give a timer, a jump count, or a health number. Treat both as things to avoid while you learn, and read any injury text the game shows you.
After the horse is sound
Spawn it again from the stall if the treatment returns you without the horse. Then open feed and grooming from the horse menus before you put it back on a course. No published guide gives exact hunger or bonding numbers, so this page does not invent a feeding schedule.
Barn chores such as sweeping, bedding, and feeding are described as ways to earn or spend time when those prompts are active. If a prompt is missing after an update, use another stall task that is actually on screen.