A Guide to Wild Horse Islands: Horse Breeds + Stats
As literally anyone would expect, a game named Wild Horse Islands has…well, horses.
However, with a weekly update schedule, the amount of breeds in the game is set to increase — for all I know, within a month or two this guide will be a time capsule and i’ll have to continue updating it (Or just make a new post entirely, since I haven’t actually checked to see if I can edit published articles or not…Whoopsies).
Regardless, I feel like there should be a nicely formatted list of the horse breeds in order of rarity (And then I’m going to sort them further by listing coat colors/markings in a breed in order of rarity).
A quick recap of the horse breed in-game as of 1/26/22 and what the 3 trainable stats of a horse are, as well as what they mean:
Current Breeds: Quarter Horse (name in real life is American Quarter Horse), Appaloosa, Paint Horse (name in real life is American Paint Horse), Clydesdale, Friesian
Stamina measures how long your horse can gallop for in the form of seconds.
Speed measures the speed your horse canters or gallops at.
Strength measures how high and long your horse can jump.
Friendliness is determined upon buying/catching the horse and cannot be altered. However, it’s unclear just what it does when it comes to game mechanics and I’ve never seen a horse with a friendliness
The American Quarter Horse
The American Quarter Horse is just called the Quarter Horse in Wild Horse Islands, which may or may not be a hint that these Islands are considered apart of the US. They’re the beginner horse you get at the tutorial (Which is literally just you catching a horse to get it off of a horse lady’s island for…No reason? You literally never see or hear of her again) and they’re easy to train as a result, but they’re not really interesting the way other breeds are due to the fact that compared to every other breed, they look painfully normal.
They’re also the everyman when it comes to trainable stats:
Maximum Strength: 50
Maximum Speed: 60
Maximum Stamina: 60
Coat colors include:
Bay
Black
Brown
Chestnut
Gray
Buckskin
Palomino
White (Rarest coat; has a 7% chance of spawning in the wild represented by the decimal of 0.07 AKA 7/100)
Appaloosa
The Appaloosa more or less looks exactly the same as the Quarter Horse, with the main difference being the markings the model has, which are known as the Leopard Complex. These markings have different names, such as spotted blanket, snowcap, blanket, varnish roan, few spots, and of course, leopard. However, not all of these are mentioned by name in-game, so I’ll be describing what the horse looks like when I mention what color it has. Stat-wise, they’re the same as the Quarter Horse, except they’re a little harder to find and catch. Not really an upgrade unless you really like the breed or you dislike how generic your Quarter Horse looks.
Maximum Strength: 50
Maximum Speed: 60
Maximum Stamina: 60
Coat colors include:
Bay (Markings include a spotted blanket, white socks on the hind legs, and a white star between the eyes)
Chestnut (Markings include a spotted blanket and a half stocking on the front left leg)
Buckskin (Only marking is a snowcap)
Gray [Only found on Mountain Island] (Markings include a spotted blanket, white half pasterns on the front legs, a sock on the hind left leg, and a stocking on the hind right leg, and a white blaze)
Red Roan [Only found on Desert Island](Markings include a spotted blanket, a white stocking on the front left leg, a white ankle on the front right leg, red roan, and what I can best describe as a white stripe)
Leopard [Only found on Blizzard Island] (White horse with small black spots)
Peacock (Markings include a spotted blanket and the peacock markings looks like small chestnut spots with a irregular rim of white around them; the peacock appaloosa model also has red roan)
I’m not sure which one is the rarest, unlike the Quarter Horse, because I haven’t caught them all yet and finding a Leopard Appaloosa or Gray Appaloosa is extremely tedious due to the islands being for lower levels/higher levels.
However, I can tell you that Peacock Appaloosas can spawn anywhere and have a 0.03% (that’s 3/100 )chance of spawning in the wild, and Red Roan Appaloosas make that percentage look like child’s play with their 0.004% chance (for reference, that’s 4/1000) of spawning in the wild.
The American Paint Horse
Like the Quarter Horse, this horse also had the “American” portion of their official name cut out. Just like appaloosas, they’re really not an upgrade from Quarter Horses in any way other than aesthetics. However, what’s cool about them is that they’re very unlikely to sell for less than 50 Tokens, so when you’re mostly catching paints on Desert Island or Mountain Island it becomes really lucrative to check every area a horse can spawn in, catch any paint horses you see, and sell them to the item trader NPC Larry for cash.
Maximum Strength: 50
Maximum Speed: 60
Maximum Stamina: 60
Coat colors include:
Black
Bay
Blue Roan
Chestnut
Palomino [Only found on Jungle Island]
Gray
Buckskin
Clydesdale
The Clydesdale finally takes a departure from the horse model used for every other breed before it, with a beefy neck, larger torso, and hooves covered in hair. This is because in real life, these horses were and are used for pulling carts, so they need that muscle to do their designated job. Owning a Clydesdale is when — in my opinion — you start to climb the ranks when it comes to trading. In spite of the concept of new breeds being added, the fervor for Clydes in trading is still burning strong, and chances are the only thing that will definitively squash it is the addition of other draft horses. If you’re lucky, you can find one for sale at Hogan’s horse market, and they vary in price but generally sit between 400 and 700 tokens. You’re most likely going to find bay or brown Clydesdales for sale when you do find them, since they’re the most common colors. The colors that currently have the most pull in the trading world are black, dapple silver, and dapple palomino. Stat-wise, they’re the slowest of all horses so you’ll need to put good tack on one if you want to ride it at a comfortable speed…People mostly ride them as implicit bragging rights, doubly so if the horse has dyed hair.
Maximum Strength: 100
Maximum Speed: 60
Maximum Stamina: 55
Coat colors include:
Brown
Bay
Black
Chestnut
Dapple Palomino
Dapple Gray
Note: These horses are not solidly colored. All of them have partially white legs and a white facial marking, and some have a small splotch of white or two on their sides or stomach.
Friesian
Getting a Clydesdale is one thing, but to catch a wild Friesian really puts you in a position of power. Right now, people will do just about anything for a Friesian regardless of the color, which is why those who do have them need to be wary of getting scammed. So far, my beloved gray and palomino Friesian Arĝento kaj Oro (The name means ‘Silver and Gold’ in Esperanto since I couldn’t think of a single word that describes something silver and gold other than electrum, which didn’t have a clear translation anywhere) has been nearly scammed from me twice due to people offering “white” Quarter Horses which are actually grey (You can tell grey and white apart because the white Quarter Horse doesn’t have the darker colored legs every other Quarter Horse has). Stat-wise, this horse is a solid upgrade from everything except for the Clydesdale due to the other breed having 100 strength and the Friesian having 55…But they run fast, and for a long time! Especially with some good tack.
Maximum Strength: 55
Maximum Speed: 70
Maximum Stamina: 75
Coat colors include:
Fading Black
Black
Gray
Black Pinto (Added as of 1/28/22)
Liver Chestnut (Added as of 1/28/22)
I really hope this guide helps players understand the horse hierarchy in this game better! I have horses from every breed in-game so far and I love them all equally, but the Clydesdale and Friesian sentiment is definitely there. Peacock Appaloosas, Red Roan Appaloosas, White Quarter Horses, and Palomino Paints are very rarely heard of in the trading world, even though a Red Roan Appaloosa is easily rarer than a lot of Clydesdales and Friesians.
The next guide I’ll be writing is some quick tips on how to avoid being scammed since while I was in-game and writing this over the past 2 days, a LOT of people are getting Friesians scammed from them. Until then!