They indicate the daily ranking progress of players, horses or centres.

It's normal. Only days when you connect to Howrse count towards your seniority.

We recommend using Mozilla Firefox as your Internet browser if you are having problems. You can download it here.

Do not worry for your horses. They will not get older if you do not log in. However, time will still pass for your equestrian centre, so you have some things to keep track of:

• Make sure that your bedding stocks are sufficient (the bedding of a box is renewed once a week),
• Regarding your crops, you have 20 days to harvest them.

Seasons last one week on Howrse. Autumn begins on the first day of each real month. Winter starts on the eighth day of the month, spring on the fifteenth and summer on the twenty-second. Summer lasts to the end of the current month. The cycle of seasons starts over again on the first day of the next month.

You have to use the contact form to send a code that's not working. Use the "Contact us" link in "My profile".

Howrse players commonly have to deal with stolen accounts. But you can avoid this by following these tips:

• ALWAYS log off before leaving Howrse,
• NEVER save your password in your browser,
• don't leave the computer you're using to play Howrse unattended,
• don't share your password with anyone
• delete the e-mail you received when you joined, because if someone hacks your e-mail address, he or she will have access to your Howrse login and password,
• and lastly, don't use a password people who know you could easily figure out.

You have to buy the Black Pearl in the Black Market to create a personalised coat for the other players. You also need a graphics programme to create your coat.

You don't have to take care of all your horses. If you perform no actions on your horse, it will not age or run health risks.

To insert an image from your computer, you have to upload it to a site like imageshack. Then all you have to do is to put the web address on the forum from your profile page.

On forums, the tags you must use for each link are [img] and [/img]. They must be pasted to the link without spacing.

On your profile, you have to use the exact link to the site where you uploaded your image by using the "image" button on your profile page.

A hypertext link lets you put just a word or sentence people can click to visit another site, such as one about your horses.

The tagging system is the same for forums as for images. The only difference is that the tag is [url] or [/url] .

To hide the address and put only the word or sentence you want, do the following: [url=address you want to redirect to]word you want to appear and then, without spaces, close the tag [/url]

On your presentation page, use the "link" button and enter the address you want to redirect to. To insert a hypertext link, write the text you want to appear, select it, click the link button, and then enter the address in the box that appears.