Free Online Horse Games

Playing free online horse games can not only be fun, but educational in the care and maintenance of the animals.

Free online horse games can teach kids about the responsibility of owning a horse.

Horse games played online often involve realistic aspects of taking care of a real life horse. These online games have been developed for both adults and children, and they mimic the following issues a person takes on in the real world when owning a horse:

• Buying and selling
• Breeding
• Grooming
• Veterinary visits
• Boarding
• Training
• Competitions

These exercises often require joining a community with free memberships and upon joining, extensive participation by members. A virtual horse community often has gaming aspects intermixed with emails, forums, and chatting with other members. Horse games can be geared towards adults, kids, or people of all ages. Accounts are free but often cost real money to upgrade.

Horseland offers two different horse gaming options. Horseland Jr. is geared towards kids under the age of 12 and is based upon the CBS Horseland cartoon series. You can create a horse, care for it, train it, enter it into shows, buy items at the tack shop, and learn about Horseland news at the clubhouse.

Horseland World is a game meant for people aged 13 and up. Only basic players are free, and they can own, breed, and show horses. To get started, sign up and check email for a verification code. Then, head to the bank and the store to purchase your first horse. A helpful listing of recent activity, horses, dogs, and stable buddies are listed on your home page.

Choose from three different horse games at White Oak Stables: racing, English, and western (under construction at the time of this article). With almost 100,000 members, this game was created to teach people about the proper care, cost, and maintenance of horses. Both kids and adults are welcome in the games.

After joining, an email is sent detailing how the game is played, along with helpful hints on getting started, entering shows, and a list of common slang terms. A verification number is needed to start playing, and is sent in the email.

The HorseSim game Arena is for serious horse gamers. As a site for adults aged 15 years and older, it requires a considerable time commitment. Read all of the rules carefully before joining, as you will be asked questions about the rules in the application. An application process includes listing why you want to join and any prior sim playing experience. If you are accepted into the game, an email will be sent to the email address you provided.

A number of free horse games available online are for gamers who want to play at jumping and racing horses instead of living in a virtual world with their stallion or mare. Jumping and riding games often use point and click techniques or keyboard strokes to direct the horse and rider to do the gamer’s bidding.

Visit these online horse riding and jumping games:

• ShowJumping: Train your horse to compete in jumping competitions using arrow keys and the spacebar.
• Horsey Racing: Play a quick race or be in the tournament with this racing game. Collect apples, wings, and other helpful tricks along the race track to help you gain first place as you jump over obstacles along the way.
• Enjoyable Horse Racing: This betting game has up to five horses competing at a time. Choose the top three finishers and then have a race. Once you win enough cash, purchase your own track to race on.
• Horse Show Jumping: Follow the track in numerical order and use your space bar to jump. Watch out for your horse getting too tired, or it will slow to a stop. Arrow keys direct the horse to accelerate (up), stop (down) or turn left or right.

New online game players may have some difficulty directing horses with their keyboard and mouse. It can be hard to know exactly when to jump and figure out the delays in your actions to the on-screen horse for each game.

Playing free kids games online can keep them busy and out of trouble. Mark several different websites that feature a variety of horse games in your Favorites list for your kids to return to time and time again. Be sure to monitor children’s use of the internet.

One online place with several games for kids is The Ultimate Horse Site. Horse versions of classic games like memory and tic tac toe are available here, along with new games perfect for kids to play. Alternatively, Horses 4 Kids features word searches, mazes, coloring book pages, and other games with horses.

Children who are older and have better skills with mouse and keyboard strokes would be able to play many of the jumping and racing games available online too.

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