Where the options sit
After a horse is spawned, customization is split across the menus named in the August 2025 overview: tack, feed, horse actions, and rider poses. The dealership pages also say that, while tacking up, feathers and the cob beard can be toggled off under Tails + Extras for cobs and Friesians.
Keep the coat readable
Coat and marking options are a stated feature of the game, but a full marking catalog is not published as a stable table. Use these checks in the customizer:
- Set the base coat first and add one facial marking before you stack more white.
- Use one white pattern at a time so the horse stays readable at arena distance.
- Put the tack on before you finish. Boots, pads, and blankets can cover the only marking you added.
- If a two-tone mane loses its second color after a recolor, respawn the horse and check the mane again. That behavior is reported for recolors; it is not documented as a setting you can toggle.
Fjords are described with a feather toggle, eye-color choices that include brown, blue, or heterochromia, and rein-length choices. Confirm those toggles on the horse you bought, because older breed pages and newer model updates do not use the same option list.
Tack that changes the silhouette
Tack pages and player menus name English and western saddles, bridles, pads, boots, halters, blankets, and fly masks. Color can fail to apply until you rejoin; if a color does not stick, leave and enter again before you buy a second copy of the same item.
Match quieter pads to a loud pinto coat, and brighter pads to a plain bay, black, or chestnut. That is a styling choice, not a stat bonus.
Poses and free roam
Horse and rider pose menus are separate from tack. Free roam is toggled from the stable menu: the same control sends the horse out and calls it back. Do not leave a horse in free roam if you still need to lead it to the vet.