Gestation lasts 12 months. From the eighth month onwards and for 50 , you can ask for an ultrasound to find out the gender, the breed and the coat of the foal. Once at this stage of gestation, the mare can then only do lessons. During the 12th month of gestation, you can get a vet to visit (the link is found in the Reproduction box, top right), and ensure that your mare is in an equestrian center that has excellent healthcare.

Starting in this experience is not insignificant. It is your responsibility to measure the financial investment that a foaling represents. The vet costs between 500 and 600 . The exact price depends on the quality of the healthcare of the equestrian center in which your mare is a resident. Once the foal is born, you can choose his name and start to look after him. You have to place him in an equestrian center when he is separated from his mother at 6 months.

Please keep in mind that it is not necessarily in your best interest to cover a mare which excels in dressage with a horse whose speed is its strength. In fact, the foal will not necessarily be better in each of these characteristics. It is better, therefore, to favor coverings between similar breeds, for example, breed a horse that excels in jumping to another horse that excels in jumping.

As foaling is emotional for her, a mare may only be covered again 10 months after the birth of her last foal.

You can have your males castrated between the age of 2 and a half and 6. Your horse will become a gelding, he will not longer be able to reproduce but will earn the following bonuses: stamina: +8, speed: +8, dressage: +4.

Note that you cannot give Zeus's lightning bolt to a gelding and castration is not reversible.

The birthing has taken place and the foal is born. His breed is determined depending on the majority breed in his ancestors if these are not "purebred". His coat is selected randomly from the coats authorized by the breed to which he belongs.

His abilities depend both on the genetic characteristics of both his parents (visible thanks to the influences on the bottom of the horse's page or, more precisely, on the genetic potential visible if you have successfully passed your fourth gallop, showing the degree of training and the list of awards for the latter.

Foals which are born stay with their mother in her box up to 6 months. They don't need to be put in an equestrian center in this period and feed on their mother's milk only.