RPG Tourist's Red Dead Redemption Horseback Tour

Arthur should have acquired this horse much earlier in the game but I was still trying to move past my attachment to Champ, the Palomino Morgan from my original play through. Until I decided that a female would be an entirely different horse that is. Studying an unbonded horse doesn't seem to reveal the gender unfortunately so there's Arthur trying to figure it out. It seemed a little sad that I named her after myself but Victoria is sort of a female complement to Champ. I didn't detect any appreciable differences from Champ. She might have gotten a little more agitated but I spent so much time on Champ that I don't really know. All I remember is that he was a very good boah.

So often I encounter interesting environmental effects that obscure the horse. Couldn`t resist this one though. Progress was elected to carry Arthur into Chapter 4 and she did her job quite well. Like all Morgans she is small, pretty, willing and a bit fragile. This one is a very common NPC horse.

This horse eluded me in play through one. This time I thought I would try chasing one with a different elite breed. The Tennessee Walker got into a jam rather quickly and Arthur was able to leap over to her. After this she assumed the typical steady nature of her breed but I still thought Rebel was a fine name for her.

We were chasing around a black bear and predictably neither Blossom nor the bear were real enthused about it. She got rather noisy but she never lost steam during the pursuit. Eventually we let it go. The problem with this horse is that they are so common and Arthur doesn't really present as well on small horses. I named her Blossom because she was a bit of a fragile flower. Morgans have the lowest health of all breeds and I did have to revive her once during an unexpected gun battle. Arthur adopted her after a mission.

By this point, I was definitely struggling with the whole naming thing. Pinto Bean got tamed. Other than an attractive and slightly unnatural looking coat, there's nothing special to remark on about this horse. I think he spent most of his time standing around waiting for me to do gambler challenges.

Gipsee from a rabbit's point of view. I didn't intend to get a black horse immediately after Jet but this one wandered riderless into the Valentine stable corral and before I knew it I was fleeing to a post office on Gipsee with Jet in tow. There was a little kerfuffle over the name. I went looking on line for a female black American Saddlebred and found one named Gypsy Queen circa 1904 that looked black in the photo. Gypsy triggered a profanity check. Gipsy didn't work either so Gipsee it was then. I can imagine how the term can be misused on line but the profanity check makes me chuckle a bit in story mode.

 

Fer is meeting a new companion in the waning hours of a very busy day. We had three grizzly encounters and made two new discoveries that I had missed in my original game save. So good stuff. His name is the French word for iron. So much crazy went on with this mount that I usually never even thought of going into photo mode. My favourite was bolting into a market while being fired on and causing absolute chaos. The Gray isn't the most spectacular of the Kentucky Saddlers but I was very entertained by both Grays I have acquired.

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I had a sweet horse named Truffle so why not Caramel. I meant to tame this horse right after Irwin, the Flaxen Chestnut Halfbred for a comparison but I'm going with the flow in this play through. The Silver Bay struck me as a similiar but more refined version. Kentucky Saddlers could have been classed as a war horse but in this game they have the weaker riding horse stats. We just moseyed around, taking in the scenery and looking for opportunity.

This is just a really silly photo. Her coat reminds me of a chocolate truffle and her face is so sweet I was looking for an open window to frame it. Then I impulsively entered the sheep pen not thinking that all the sheep would run out. I managed to round up a couple of them but I guess the rest are just roaming around town now. I ran into her and her rider while doing that Arabian go fast thing. Her rider ran off and poor Truffle was in terrible shape. I fixed her up and that settled the which horse is next question. It's really too bad about the low health stat because this is a loveable little horse.

I was chasing a pronghorn across the river and suddenly Giselle just soared over a rock. I thought Giselle sort of sounded like gazelle. The pronghorn disappeared from the frame however. Giselle formerly belonged to a man we encountered running on foot and in some kind of distress. Taking the horse was apparently not the correct thing to do but opportunism won over. Giselle surprised me by dealing extremely well with a wolf swarm.

This horse can show up if you become separated from your main during a mission but usually appears after your main has died. Unfortunately, the Chestnut has shown up already thanks to my recklessness. I usually sold this horse right away last time but according to my new rules he had to max bond at least once. He turned out to be a good buddy so I named him that. Buddy.

Bangs is a terrible name but the forelock is a notable feature. As far as looks go this is my favourite Tennessee Walker and Arthur looks great riding him. I took him right out of the gang camp. I was doing Horseman Challenge level 2 here. 

This was an impulsive "Let's lasso a goat" episode. I guess the horse has to be already standing still to stay mounted. The instant Arthur auto slid off Whiskey he was outta there. The goat soon killed Arthurs stamina and got away. Whiskey survived two ambushes almost immediately after he was tamed. His name makes sense I guess if you like your whiskey really pale.

Another uninspiring photo of a Dapple Bay. Tennessee Walkers are pretty steady generally. I neglected to note how she was acquired. Probably an impulse taming. She acquired her name during a flubbed lassoing attempt. I failed to hogtie a robber and inexplicably climbed back on the horse while he shot directly at us. She stood there until I got off to hogtie him for certain this time. I thought she must have faith.

It seems funny to take a photo of a horse named Apollo in the moonlight but this was one of those times I thought the scene warranted a screenshot. My first Gold Palomino was male as well. This one was wandering outside Valentine stable and I just took off with him with no consequences. My experience was the same. He's a nice horse. Nothing much unusual happened. Arthur is carrying a lantern because I thought it might keep wolves away. That didn't work of course but I was so close to Strawberry that I just outran them.

The Mahogany Bay is of course Arthur's original reliable and unreplaceable companion from Chapter 1. The first time around, I sold him as soon as Valentine stable unlocked and didn't even give him a name. This time he was named Zach after a favourite  hockey player.