Horse Taming



, also known as breaking, is a method of habituating a wild horse to ridership. In order to tame a horse, the player must locate a wild horse and use the lasso to capture it. The player will then have to break the horse to tame it for use.

Breaking a horse is done by staying balanced for a certain period of time on top of the horse while it bucks. A wide range of horse breeds can be captured and tamed.

For every type of horse you break, a deed can afterwards be purchased at General Stores. So if you see one you like, break it. And if it's broken or dead, buy the deed, use it from your Satchel to make it your horse, whistle and you get the same one again.

You cannot sell horses, you can only sell horse meat and hides from a dead horse.(This is known as skinning)

At some locations, you can earn money by doing a Horsebreaking job.

Achievements
The breaking of wild horses is associated with the following achievement:

Tips

 * To break a horse, merely move left or right on the left analog stick as needed to "center" yourself atop the animal. The exercise will conclude after a minute or so.
 * Breaking a horse may seem tricky at first and to a lot of people can come down to dumb luck. However if you ignore the horses movements, the background and the top half of John and just focus on his legs it becomes rather easy. if the legs are tilting one way, lightly tap the stick in the opposite direction to balance him out. Once equal just hold it there until the horse rears on its hind legs and you can ride off on it.