Race Horses drops you into a grassy stable yard with a tutorial popup, a little cash, and no horse. The loop underneath it is simple and repeats forever: buy an egg, hatch it, stuff the resulting horse with fruit until it levels up, send it to a race, collect the payout, and spend that money on bigger eggs and a bigger stable.
Quick answer: Buy a Common Egg for $400, drop it on your stable floor, press E to hatch it once the timer ends, feed it apples, then enter a race from the Choose A Horse board.
First five minutes: egg to first race payout
Egg Shop prices and horse perks
Every horse you own comes out of an egg, and the egg tier decides the rarity you can pull. The stall restocks instantly, so the only limit is your cash.
| Egg | Price |
|---|---|
| Common Egg | $400 |
| Uncommon Egg | $3,000 |
| Rare Egg | $15,000 |
Epic eggs sit further along the shop list once you can afford them. Rare eggs are worth saving for beyond raw stats, because the stable upgrade path eventually demands a Rare or better horse on your roster.
Perks are rolled with the horse and shown on the hatch screen. Two you will see early:
- Wisehorse — +30% XP Gain, so it levels faster per apple.
- Workhorse — +40% Cash Multiplier on race earnings.
Feeding fruit and reading the stat card
Leveling is entirely fruit-driven. The trees in the central field regrow apples constantly, and you can hold up to 10 apples at a time before you have to walk back and empty your inventory into a horse. Carrots work the same way and are handy for topping a horse up to Level 5 quickly.
Open a horse’s stat card to see where it stands. The card tracks Races, Wins, Top 3 finishes, and Fruit Eaten, which is the quickest way to tell whether a horse has actually been fed or has just been sitting in the pen.
Race entries have downtime, so gather apples while a horse is out on the track instead of standing around watching the run.
Race payouts, tracks, and cooldowns
Prize money scales with the event and your finishing position, not just with winning. Mid-pack results still pay, which is why entering every race you can is better than holding a horse back. Here is how typical finishes cash out:
| Race | Finish | Payout |
|---|---|---|
| Horseback Dash | 1st | $10,786 |
| The Duke’s Charge | 1st of 8 | $4,917 |
| The Racer’s Chase | 3rd | $4,263 |
| The Great Rush | 3rd of 8 | $3,348 |
| The Sigma’s Dash | 2nd of 8 | $3,198 |
| The Alpha’s Derby | 2nd of 8 | $2,448 |
| The Donkey’s Charge | 3rd of 8 | $1,965 |
| The Greyhound’s Championship | 6th of 8 | $1,009 |
Courses vary between dirt ovals, green turf with wooden hurdle jumps, and a beach track used by events like Prince’s Rush. Your horse handles the running itself once the gates open.
After a race, the horse goes on cooldown and sleeps in the stable — roughly four to five minutes before it shows as available again on the Choose A Horse list. That gap is the real reason to own more than one horse.
Stable upgrade requirements
Your stable caps how many horses you can keep at once, and upgrading it also boosts what races pay. The menu lists both the cash cost and the roster conditions you must meet first.
| Upgrade | Requirements | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 → 2 | Two horses at Level 5+ | $2,000 |
| Level 2 → 3 | Three horses at Level 10+, one Rare or better | $12,000 |
The first upgrade raises capacity to two horses and applies a 1.15x race multiplier to your earnings. Because the level requirements are the slow part, feed your second and third horses up to the threshold before you worry about the cash.
Free tools: sponge, shovel, and stable chores
The Tool Shop vendor booth hands out both of its starting tools at no cost. Pick them up on your first run through the yard — there is no reason to delay it.
- Sponge (free) — scrubs dirt off a muddy horse, restoring happiness and awarding bonus XP.
- Shovel (free) — scoops horse droppings from the paddock, which you dump in the trash bin for cash.
The game prompts you when a horse is dirty or the pen needs cleaning, so both tools slot neatly into the waiting time between races.
Retiring horses for cash
The Retire A Horse booth lists every horse you own alongside its individual sell value. Selling is how you clear a slot when your stable is full and a Common starter is no longer pulling its weight.
Retirement values are low compared with race winnings — an early Common horse can sell for as little as $390 — so retire only when you genuinely need the slot, not for income.
Race Horses codes and how to redeem them
Codes hand out feed items rather than cash, which is exactly what you need while pushing horses toward the Level 5 and Level 10 stable thresholds.
| Code | Reward |
|---|---|
| HORSES | 1 Golden Apple |
| RACER | 1 Golden Apple |
| CARROT | 15 Carrots |
Open the Promo Codes window, type a code into the text box exactly as written, and confirm. A successful redemption drops the item straight into your inventory, so check for the Golden Apple or the carrot stack before assuming a code failed. The game also serves a Free Reward prompt for a Golden Apple during play.
From there the game is a rhythm rather than a challenge. Gather apples, feed whichever horse is off cooldown, enter it in the next race, bank the payout, and put it toward the next egg tier. Once the stable holds multiple runners, you can keep one horse on the track almost continuously while the others eat and rest.
