How to Get the Best Horses

The best horses are the ones with 20-star stats or five stars in Strength, Speed, Stamina, and Pull in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (TotK). Find out how to get the best horses, how to get 20-star horses, and how to upgrade your horse's stats!

How to Get Best Horses

Catch Horse with High Stats

Base 4-3-4-3 split

Base 4-4-5-3 split

To make upgrading your horse less time consuming, it's recommended to catch a horse with already high stats. The highest base stats we've seen on a wild horse have been the splits 4-4-5-3 and 4-3-4-3. Horses like these can be found in either Zokassa Ridge, or east of Dueling Peaks.

Upgrade Stats to 20 Stars Via Cooked Dishes

Once you have a horse you want to max out the stats of (i.e. make the best!), you need to talk to Malanya and feed the horse set cooked dishes to max out all its stats. Strength, Speed, Stamina, and Pull are the 4 stats that can be maxed out to 5 stars. Each cooked dish fed will increase the 1 stat by 1 star, so a good amount of cooking is needed.

How to Upgrade Horse

Talk to Malanya and Upgrade with Cooked Dishes

Talk to Malanya and select the horse you wish to buff the stats of. Depending on which stat of the horse's 4 stats you want to improve (upgrade by 1), you'll need a selection of dishes to feed the horse.

As depicted above, the horse would need cooked dishes such as Vegetable Curry (3x), Hot Buttered Apple (3x), and Carrot Cake (3x) in order to upgrade its Strength ability stat.

Cooking Guide: List of Food and Dishes

All Horse Upgrade Requirements

The cooked dish requirements are the same across all horses.

Where to Catch Best Horses

Zokassa Ridge or East of Dueling Peaks

Zokassa Ridge Location	East of Dueling Peaks Location
-0572, -3162, 0117	2202, -1855, 0021

The Best Horses are found within Zokassa Ridge and east of Dueling Peaks Stable. The walkthrough team has encountered horses with 4-3-4-3, 4-3-4-2, and 4-4-5-3 stat splits at these 2 locations.

Specifically, the horse with the 4-4-5-3 stat split was found east of Dueling Peaks.

How to Tame Wild Horses

Horses tamed in these locations

4-3-4-3 split

4-3-4-3 split

4-4-5-3 split

Breath of the Wild Horse

The Royal Horse received from the Royal White Stallion quest in Breath of the Wild can be transferred over to Tears of the Kingdom.

What Transfers Over From Breath of the Wild (BotW)?

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