
Increasing your bond also expands your horse’s health and stamina bars (but not their cores). When you earn enough, your bond with your horse will level up.Īs you progress through the four horse bond levels, you’ll unlock new controls and abilities - like rearing, or being able to call your horse from farther away. As you do things out in the world with your horse, you’ll earn bonding points (think of it like a specific kind of XP). Rockstar Games via Polygonīonding with your horse works a lot like improving your own health, stamina or dead eye. Handling refers to the class (for lack of a better word) of horse you’re looking at - like standard, heavy, race or elite.Ĭores guide Bonding with your horse Brushing improves your bond with your horse. The filled-in bars show its base stats, while the gray ones show how far your horse can improve with different and better equipment (more on this below).

(Note: We say “care about” here, but please read the final section before you go swapping out horses.) Speed and acceleration are represented by up to 10 bars some are filled in white, a few more are grayed out, and the rest are blank. The next three pieces of information are what you’ll care about most: speed, acceleration and handling.

Below that, you’ll see the color of the horse’s coat. To the right of the cores is your bonding level with this particular horse (more on that in a second). Below that on the left are the horse’s cores - stamina and health - and their associated bars.

When you walk up to your (or any, really) horse and press R1/RB to show their info, you’ll see the things that differentiate this horse from any other.Īt the top, you’ll see the breed - breed largely determines the rest of the stats, so horses of the same breed will have similar (or identical) attributes. Horse basics A horse’s stats can be viewed by locking on to them and hitting R1/RB to show info. Here’s everything you need to know about dealing with your equine friends in Red Dead Redemption 2. Your horse is your primary mode of transportation, a mobile arsenal and your constant companion. Horses are a big part of Red Dead Redemption 2.
