llama or Horse

[Pyromaniac]

Which one is the better mount?

[Suzaku]

White horse is the best.

You can see their stats at your stables.

[Wanderer Bobbi]

As mentioned, the white horse ~~ best for the tournament.
In the meantime you can rent a horse at Farmer McDonald's horse stall (once you've repaired it).
You may certainly try out a llama. If it's not your cup of tea, you can always sell it. Many catch the cotton llama for gols; Rainbow llamas sell for less.

[gussmed]

The rental horse is nearly as good as any other option. The other mounts are a little better, but not a lot better. The main drawback to the rental horse is you have to make a morning trip to McDonald's once a week to rent it again.

Keep in mind that except for the rental horse and the cotton Llama, they all require significant training. You don't have to train them, but the purchased horses don't surpass the rental until they're trained. While that's happening you'll continue to rent a horse while your new one gets ready.

The Rainbow Llama's main advantage is it's very cheap compared to buying a horse, just a trap plus some bait. It takes a lot of training, but it has max stats identical to the brown horse.

The Cotton Llama is almost as fast as the white horse, and probably faster over a long haul with enforced rests because it has a faster END recovery rate.

It does bounce up and down a lot, and I've had cases where I got stuck because it bounces forward instead of runs forward. For example, saddling up under a merchant's awning can get you stuck and force you to dismount to advance.

The "tame the llama" minigame is annoying enough that I'd practice a time or two on Rainbow llamas before trying to catch a cotton one. It'd suck to burn a $1000 Ginseng just to fail the taming minigame.

[rajwarrior]

The training isn't bad at all. Just set it to train every night before you go to bed. Even if you don't finish the training by morning, it still gets some and thus, better stats, every day.

I suck at the llama capture game.

[gussmed]

I’m pretty terrible at the llama capture game too. I wasn’t sure that I was going to get the cotton llama at all. I didn’t even try to time things, I just hit the keys as fast as they came up, because otherwise I’d miss keys entirely. Which I did now and then anyway.