Horses of Hoofprint Bay: why your mare got pregnant without a breeding station

On November 5 a player bought a stallion for one of the early quests and, two days later, got a message that their mare was pregnant, with no breeding station built. Other players in the thread confirm it: a stallion and a mare together is enough. A November 4 report has a mare covered again the day after she foaled.

Players give two ways to move a horse: drag it to a different field, or use the Management menu while you're looking at the horse. Gelding is the other fix, and a reply in a separate thread says it has no stat effect; it only lets the horse live with mares without pregnancies or fighting.

1. Open the horse and use its Management menu, or drag it onto another field.
2. Keep every stallion you don't plan to breed away from mares, or geld him.

One player lost $500 and prestige when a boarded mare got pregnant; her owner was upset and collected her early. Another reports a boarded yearling turned adult overnight and went into the stallion pasture because the mare pasture was full, since the boarder list only says yearling or adult.

A November 4 player found no way to end a pregnancy by calling the vet. The replies suggest selling the foal afterwards and reading the breeding section of the in-game library before planning pairings.

After players complained about mares losing stats when they foal, the developers reduced the loss for horses with low stats in v1.0.2 (November 8). Their notes put the cap at a tenth of the horse's endurance, and never more than 5.

The same patch fixes the list of available competition courses being wrong for a senior horse with a foal.