General options

Four game settings, unrelated to one another.

Race sounds

Three values: Sound effects inactivated, Sounds only, or Sounds + Music. This concerns the race viewer, not the rest of the site.

Race viewer

What the game does when you ask to watch a race: Always ask, Always use the 3D viewer, or Always use the lightweight 3D viewer.

The useful setting is the third if your machine is struggling, or if you watch many races one after the other: the lightweight version asks far less of the browser. And Always ask is the right choice as long as you have not tried both.

Breeding suffix

The name of your breeding operation, twenty characters. It accompanies every horse you have born or that you create, and it follows the horse all its life, even after you have sold it — that is what lets you recognise a horse's origin when you come across it years later.

Changing suffix renames the breeding operation of every horse you have bred, including those you have sold, and in all three worlds. Your breeding operation thus keeps one single name.

Two things follow from that.

Your stable does not display one single breeding operation. The horses you have bought carry their breeder's, not yours: that is normal, and it is in fact the point of the mention. Only the horses that came out of your breeding carry your suffix.

Horse names are unique within a breeding operation, not in the whole game. So it is your suffix that defines that name space: two breeders can each have their own “Tornado”. See breeding.

One last point: a breeding operation's name can change, since its breeder can modify his suffix. The horse you bought six months ago may therefore display today a different breeding operation from the one you remember. It is not a mistake.

For you, it is worth choosing with care: it is a signature, and it is under that name that other players will recognise your work as a breeder.

Playing the little games of chance

A tick box, ticked by default. Unticked, it makes the “Games” menu group disappear and renders the three little games inaccessible.

It is a setting deliberately put in your hands. These games — scratch card, slot machine, wheel — are played in sulkies and are only an entertainment on the side of the game; if you would rather not have them in front of you, this box removes them for good. It can be ticked again just as easily.