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Horses age up with every game year, which lasts two real life months. We are currently in the first month of the current year, which will run through June.

If you look up in the corner of your game page, you can see the current game time, which is keyed to Eastern Time in the United States. Next, you will see the current game year (60), and the current Era, which is a way of breaking down the lines of game horses into manageable groups for award purposes. Since this game has been running for almost 10 real life years, you can see how that might be helpful.

Underneath that is an announcement of when the next breeding season begins. It currently reads "July 2nd." The game year starts on the 1st of that month, but breeding for upgraded members begins on the 2nd, and for people with free accounts on the 3rd.

Game years start on the first of January, March, May, July, September and November. All horses, except foals, will add a year to their age at that time. Foals are a slightly special case. If they are "born" in the first month of a game year, they will be classed as foals until the end of that month. They will age up to yearlings on the first day of the next month, and to 2 years old at the beginning of the next game year.

The breeding season lasts through the 27th of the second month of the game year, except for a few days at the end of the first month and the beginning of the second. I'm not sure right now if foals born in the second month are called foals or yearlings, but I suspect it's the latter. Someone who has taken the time to observe this may come along and correct me if I'm wrong.

Horses have an increasing chance of dying from old age starting when they turn 18, but a fair number of horses survive that hazardous birthday, sometimes for quite a few game years. I have known times when the oldest horse has been 30 or more.

Horses can be bred until they turn 20, and can be shown until they age out of the game, whenever that might be.

The oldest horse in the game at this moment is 27.
http://hj2.huntandjump.com/horse.php?horseid=267055

Not sure why no one linked you the breeding info page. It has a run down on aging. http://www.huntandjump.com/breeding_info.php