I'll start with my tip, I played this game on a Windows XP (I don't know about the detailed system components). So when I lanched the program at some point the mouse turned into an egg timer so I waited... and waited... and waited... Then I got fed up and tried to exit by pressing "Esc". But insted of exiting I ended up at the game menue (the egg timer still hangs around most of the time)so then I pressed PLAY. TRY IT!
I have just sucsessfully completed the frist official little competition and won a lovley Lipizan mare (For now I have named her Lady Lipizan). I only knew It was a mare because it was in it's discription.
The first horse I got was a dapple grey mare (named cobweb). I only knew it was a mare because I was told.
But My second horse, a Takener(or something like that), is unknown as it sais nothing in the discription and I may have missed something someone said PLEASE HELP.
One down side is that when riding all I see is a horse's rear, lol.
This game is really good as try to solve the tasks on the adventure, take care of your beloved horses, take a tacktical veiw to jumping and bust a nerve at dressage.
so even if you don't like horses you can still enjoy the style of this fantastic game. However, I personally enjoy the horses.