Legacy horses can become injured when training, showing, or even while they are in pasture, and rarely, in the barn. Some injuries are completely random, while some are affected by conformation, or a specific discipline the horse is training or showing in.
In all cases, when a horse is injured, they will need to rest from training, exercising and showing until they are healed. Some injuries will heal in just a few weeks (i.e. after one rollover), but some more severe injuries can take up to a year to heal (detailed more below). To help them heal faster, you can try to treat some injuries yourself, or you can call the vet out for better, but more expensive treatments, that will help the horse heal even faster. Some of the more severe/complicated injuries can only be treated by a vet though. To treat injuries, you need to look in their Health tab.
There is an extremely small chance a horse will find a way to injure themselves while they are kept in a Barn.
If they are in a Pasture though, their chance is considerably higher, especially if they are kept with multiple stallions.
Bad conformation can increase your horse's risk of certain injuries, as detailed below.
Risk Factors:
Risk Factors:
Risk Factors:
Training and showing in certain high-impact disciplines will increase your risk for these injuries.
Different injuries heal at different rates. The following can be used as reference to estimate how long your horse will need to rest because of an injury:
|
Injury |
Game Months to Heal | |
| Min | Max | |
| Cut/Scrape | 0.5 | 1 |
| Bite Wound | 0.5 | 1 |
| Muscle Soreness | 0.5 | 1 |
| Muscle Inflammation | 1.5 | 6 |
| Ligament Inflammation | 1.5 | 2 |
| Hoof sole bruise | 1.5 | 4 |
| Ligament tear | 9 | 12 |
| Scapula hairline fracture | 3 | 6 |
| Conformational laminitis, Moderate | 1.5 | 2 |
| Conformational laminitis, Severe | 1.5 | 2 |
| Back pain, Minor | 0.5 | 1 |
| Back pain, Moderate | 1 | 1.5 |
| Canon bone hair-line fracture | 4 | 12 |
| Knee inflammation, Minor | 1 | 2 |
| Knee inflammation, Moderate | 2 | 4 |
| Hock inflammation, Minor | 1 | 2 |
| Hock inflammation, Moderate | 2 | 4 |
| Cuts/bruising on heel | 0.5 | 0.5 |
| Stress fracture | 3 | 4 |
| Bowed tendon | 8 | 11 |
| Proximal suspensory desmitis, minor | 0.5 | 0.5 |
| Proximal suspensory desmitis, moderate | 1 | 3 |