VHR is a massive multi-player browser based game. It does not consist of 'fancy graphics' or live interactivity (yet). It is a strategy game for the english horse lovers, with over twenty five breeds and five different sports to specialize your horse in.
Action takes place when you train your horse, and proceed to next day. All players are allotted certain number of days to procceed too over time. For example: as of writing this, players are given a turn (day) every twenty minutes, and they accumulate over time. As well as starting out with 100 turns. This is PLENTY for game play and probably will be adjusted.
Action also takes place at midnight- pacific time- when there is an event filled up and ready to be held. The events are executed and the results are posted. One player can bet on horses, or enter horses in suitable events. Players do not have to be present for their horses to perform in such events.
Players can breed their horses with other horses, create another breed or work on purifying their current breed.
Players can Buy and sell horses to other players, or just throw them out to pasture.

The game is a turned-based game. This does NOT mean that you have to wait for other players to take a turn. Turns are Given to players over time as well as initial start up amount of turns. The max amount of turns you can recieve is 127. You do not need to be online to recieve turns. Turns are also referred to as days or virtual days: When you take a turn, your horses sleep over night, get fed, recover energy, and get updated.

Help files: Concepts:Getting Started

The first step that you probably want to do when you login is hit up the marketplace link on top of the browser and then, hit horses for sale. Here, you will find all the horses in the game that are currently for sale. Buy a horse or two that you wish to start your stable with.
Once you have purchased your horse(s), click the stables link. If you do not see your horse in the stables, click the Pasture link. You might want to find the form button to move your horse to the stables.
Horses in stable are fitted to be trained once or twice a day depending on their workout. Depending on your horses stamina, and the type of training you put it through, energy will decrease. To get a closer look at your horse, click on your horses name. Each time you train your horse, It's energy will decrease, do not decrease it too much or it could suffer from exhaustion.
Once you have excercized/trained your horse(s) and you have nothing further you wish to do, in that virtual day (turn) proceed to the next day! Do this by clicking the Proceed to The Next Day link (take turn) on top of the browser. This will take a turn off your available turns, and bring you to the next day in your stables. Your horses energy will recover depending on it's stamina, and how much energy it had previously.
TIP: When you visit the stables link, horses are sorted by who has not had attention that day, so you can cycle through your horses easier. If they have all had attention, they will start with the default horse listed at top.

Help files: Concepts:A virtual Day

In a typical stable, the stable master, or in this case... the player, will go out and look over his/her horses in the stable (hit stable link) and work on them. They can click on the horses name for a closer look at this horse and for more options than to train, or to write notes to oneself. They can select the type of training in the quicktrain on the list of horses in the stable and then return to their horse or their stable. When ever you put any kind of work in to your horse in the train horse form, it's energy decreases, allowing it only so much training per day. And once you have trained all your horses and you have finished all of what you like to do, you can click 'proceed to next day'. This takes one of your allotted turns away, which are given over real time to all players. Energy will recoup on horses, depending on their stamina, condition, and how tired they were once this is done.
Horses in pastures can also be trained but are usually bit dirty and more tired from playing around all day. They do not have to be fed as much nor do they loose stats. However there trainings do decay over time, and they are not at optimum condition for competition.
TIP: Horses left in stables (stalls) stats might slightly decay if they did not recieve attention in one virtual day/turn.

Help files: Concepts:Cash

Help files: Concepts:Future Plans