# 🏇 Disciplines and Training

Horse disciplines allow players to specialize horses for specific styles of riding and competition. Disciplines influence stat development and create a clearer role for each horse over time.

#### Discipline Registration

A horse’s discipline is registered at the **Discipline Registry** in **Ventura (Arynvahl).**

Once assigned, a discipline can be changed, but changing it has a **72-hour cooldown**.

#### Discipline Progression

Each discipline contains **15** levels.

Every level requires **1000 XP**

As a horse gains discipline levels, its stats are adjusted to better fit that specialty. In practice, this means a horse may gain stronger performance in key areas for that discipline while becoming less optimized in unrelated areas.

For example, a racing horse may gain improvements to speed and stamina while becoming weaker in jump-related performance.

#### Training Races

Training races are an important part of horse progression. These races are located around Ventura and nearby regions.

Players can locate them by:

1\. Opening `/quest`  
2\. Selecting `Races`  
3\. Choosing a race  
4\. Pressing `Set Compass Point`

The compass marker will then guide the player to the correct location.

#### Special Gaits

Only some disciplines currently include custom gaits or special movement behavior. At present, the main disciplines with special movement support are:

\- Dressage  
\- Western Pleasure  
\- Saddleseat (partial)  
\- Hunter Jumpers (partial)

#### Riding XP

Mounted progression is tied directly to activity.

While riding, players receive:

\- 5 player XP per minute  
\- 15 horse XP per minute

#### Leaderboard Rewards

Race leaderboards reward long-term competitive performance. If a player holds a top-three leaderboard position for `28 days`, they receive the following:

\- 1st place: $10,000 and 250 XP  
\- 2nd place: $7,500 and 175 XP  
\- 3rd place: $5,000 and 100 XP

#### Performance and Welfare

Horse speed and responsiveness are also affected by welfare and nutrition. A horse that is underfed or poorly maintained may appear unusually slow even if its base stats are strong.