Raga

Well I confirmed that there is no horse gender toggle. However, if you just save your game near a stable and keep reloading the game the genders of the horses do change.

Is it really that simple? I'm going to try this when I get home. If that's really it and I missed it, I'm quite a dumbass.

So my last playthrough, I ended up with all mares because the horses I wanted happened to be all mares, but I know that the gender can vary. My question: has anybody figured out at what point horse gender gets determined if you wanted to try to get a specific horse as male or female? Is it at the beginning of a chapter when new horses pop up in stables? So for instance if I save a game and reload the end of Chapter 1 over and over, would the genders of the horses made available in chapter 2 stables vary each time? If a horse I bought at a stable dies, does a replacement horse of the same breed and color eventually show up in that stable to buy? If so, is the new horses gender randomized or is it always the same as the dead one? (Not that horse assassination would be ideal, but hey, if it works). Or for that matter, could I just buy a horse and take it to horse fence or something to force a new horse of the same breed/color to appear in that slot in the stable? I'm willing to take some time to experiment on my own with this, but I figured I'd ask first just to save time if anybody else has deduced any particular pattern here.