Howrse Tips

Black Market items

The Black Market items, or BMIs, are handy items that are useful to your horse, or help you get another BM item. BM items need to be bought with passes, however some can't be bought with passes and are instead released during promos. Here are all of the BM items currently available, in alphabetical order. BM Items can be traded in the item exchange. Note that these are only BM Items you can currently get, so there are no profiles for the Diamond Apple or Shutterfly Boot, for example. I *might* put in the average price in eqqus for them as well, if I have a lot of time!

Achilles' Heel

With Achilles' Heel, you no longer have to worry about what time you bed your horse down for the night or what its energy level is. Indeed, if you put your horse to bed too late or with little energy, he will wake up with as much energy, health and morale as if you had put him to bed with at least 20% of energy and before 22:00.

Beware, your horse however still can't do any actions past midnight.

Cost: Can't buy with passes

Aphrodite's Tears

Aphrodite's Tears can increase the innate skills from your mare's descendents by 50% in their new gestation.Hence, a foal which would normally have had innate skills of +12, +6, +5, +8, +10, +7 in stamina, speed, dressage, gallop, trot and jumping, will increase to +18, +9, +8, +12, +15, +11 with Aphrodite's Tears.

Carefully pick the mares you give Aphrodite's Tears to. The innate skills depend on the quality of the parents, and if the parents are not good enough, then the descendents will not be either. In this case, there is no point in using Aphrodite's Tears and you will have lost one pass. Along with the Fertility Wand, Aphrodite's Tears will then have their effect on the two foals to be born.

Cost: 1 pass

Apollo's Lyre

Apollo's Lyre allows you to customize your horses' names and add colors and small images. For horses that have Apollo's Lyre, you can change their name as many times as you wish.

Cost: 1 pass

Artemis' Arrow

Use Artemis' Arrow to double the aging speed of your mare while she is gestating. This means, in this case, that one aging point ages the mare by 4 months instead of the usual 2. This item may be put on the mare at any time, but it only works during the gestation period. Artemis' Arrow can also be used on mares that have Water of Youth, in which case the mares age 2 months instead of 1.

Cost: Can't buy with passes

Atalante Pack

The Atalanta Pack lets you harness your horse for regular competitions. For this pack, your horse must be over 3 years old. Includes 1 x  Hephaestus' Horseshoes  + 1 x  Eolus' Wind  + 1 x  Atalante's Saddle  + 1 x  Athena's Bridle  + 1 x  Philotes' Stroke.

Cost: Can't buy with passes

Atalante's Saddle

With Atalante's Saddle, your horse will have added speed, dressage, and jumping. Atalante's Saddle never expires. However, once you have given it to a horse, you can never take it off. Here are the bonuses this transformation gives:

Speed: +9, Dressage: +9, Showjumping: +9

Cost: Can't buy with passes

Athena's Bridle

Athena's Bridle is recommended to improve your horses' dressage, galloping and trotting. It never expires. However, once you have given it to a horse, you can never take it off. Here are the bonuses this transformation gives: