Traits & Stats

Every horse in Equorum has a set of core qualities and training attributes that describe its natural characteristics, performance ability, and room to develop. These values are influenced by factors such as breed and, for bred horses, parentage.

Core qualities describe the horse as an individual and are not trained in the same way as performance attributes. Training attributes have both a current ability and an individual potential. Current ability can improve through training and development, but it cannot exceed the horse’s potential for that attribute.

On the horse page, filled bars show current ability out of 100 and gold markers show the horse’s potential. A horse’s qualities, training attributes, and potential values are private and can only be viewed by its current owner.

Core Qualities

Every horse has five core qualities. These represent broad characteristics of the horse rather than skills developed through discipline training.

Conformation	The horse’s overall structural correctness, balance, proportions, and physical suitability for athletic work.
Movement	The overall quality, freedom, coordination, and effectiveness of the horse’s natural movement.
Temperament	The horse’s general disposition, willingness, reliability, and ability to cope with handling and work.
Soundness	The horse’s natural physical durability and tendency to remain comfortable and capable of work.
Athleticism	The horse’s overall natural athletic ability, coordination, and capacity for physical performance.

Training Attributes

Training attributes describe specific areas of performance ability. Each attribute has a current value and a potential value. Training develops the current value toward that horse’s individual potential.

Strength	The ability to generate and sustain physical force during demanding work.
Stamina	The ability to sustain physical effort and maintain performance over longer periods of work.
Speed	The ability to travel quickly and produce greater pace when a discipline or task requires it.
Agility	The ability to change direction quickly and efficiently while remaining coordinated and controlled.
Balance	The ability to maintain stability, coordination, and control while moving, turning, and performing more demanding work.
Suppleness	The horse’s flexibility and ability to move freely through its body while bending and adjusting its frame.
Rhythm	The ability to maintain regular, consistent, and controlled movement through the horse’s work.
Focus	The ability to remain attentive to the task, rider or driver, and surrounding environment.
Confidence	The horse’s willingness to approach challenging, unfamiliar, or demanding situations without hesitation.
Rideability	The horse’s responsiveness, willingness, and ease of communication with a rider or driver.

Current Ability & Potential

A training attribute’s filled bar represents the horse’s current ability out of 100. The gold potential marker shows how far that individual horse can ultimately develop in the attribute. Training can raise current ability, but it cannot raise the horse beyond its potential.

Wellbeing

Wellbeing values describe the horse’s current physical state. Unlike core qualities and training potential, these values are dynamic and may change as a result of care, training, competition, rest, illness, injury, and other activities.

Fitness	The horse’s current level of physical conditioning and preparedness for work.
Condition	The horse’s current physical condition and ability to perform at its best.
Fatigue	The amount of physical tiredness accumulated through training, competition, and other strenuous activities.
Health	The horse’s overall physical wellbeing, affected by routine care, illness, injury, and recovery.