(Secret Guide) Get Best SP Horse Black Arabian Early and Easy for FREE

This is a guide for SINGLE PLAYER only. It tells you how to get the best horse that is available until the Epilogue without paying 1k and waiting for it to unlock at chapter 4. You can do it at the start of chapter 2.

How to GIT DAT HORSEA

First, you have to have completed mission 10 "Exit Pursued by a Bruised Ego" that is given by Hosea. You don't actually have to beat ALL other 9 missions to unlock this. It could be an earlier mission for you. Just watch out for big H on a yellow circle.

You will go hunt a bear with Hosea, on the way to the bear, you will go through Valentine to sell a horse and you will be taught how to acquire new horses, replace the saddle etc. Without that you won't be able to get a new horse.

After you're done hunting teddy bears Hose-ea-ea will ask you if you'd like to fast travel back to the camp or you'd like to explore.

I suggest you choose explore. I do not think you've unlocked fast travel from camp at this point anyway. Ride from the mission's end to Saint Denis. (You could of course fast travel with Hosea and then go to the train station if you have any money and use that to fast travel to Saint Denis, that may even be better if you arrive at night, as you arrive close to Black Arabian encounter)

Totally unimportant, and not the best horse but if you want A Brindle Wraped Arabian you can also travel to Indian Reservation from the mission end. It is quite close. But while a good horse on its own it is the worst Arabian horse in game. And you gotta tame it.

How to actually git dat horsea (The Black Arabian Encounter)

All you have to do is make your way to the encounter which happens at night opposite the theater. It will be a robbery and the treasure horse will be parked nearby. I suggest you make a save at night nearby the encounter place and either reload it to get a new attempt (you will be spawned somewhere nearby, that is how RDR2 saves work) or you can even roam around the area, turn a few corners, and see if encounter plays for you after that. All in all it took me 3 reloads for this guide to get it. And it took me around this amount for my actual playthrough.

If a different encounter plays close to the spot of this one, then there will not be any new encounters unless you reload or sleep. By the way if you arrive during the day then I suggest you have a few dollars to get a room in an inn. (And some dollars to upgrade horse equipment would be nice, look for treasure gold bar guides here on Steam).





You can also try clearing other encounters around the spot to increase the chances of robbery encounter happening next time when you come back here after sleeping or save and load.

Here is a video with the encounter

and then at 1:47 you can see that the horsea is Arabian.

I do apologize that there was a rather long chase, if you do everything right away and do not waste precious seconds making screenshots for a guide you can steal the horsea without being noticed and drive it to the stable right away. And it is also possible to watch the event unfold and then follow the couple to the outskirts of the city and rob them without any witnesses present. Whatever your cup of tea is.

Obviously, as can be seen on the video it is better to not get off the horse in agitated state or it will run away and you won't catch it. If you have your main horse close you can just replace the saddle, otherwise go to Saint Denis stables. Of course, being wanted may make this a bit hard.

An even better horsea

This is actually 2nd best horse in the game but the best horse available for the campaign. The true best horse you can get is available only as a purchase after the epilogue. It is Rose Grey Bay Arabian. It just has 1 more point in health and stamina. Otherwise, all other points are 6 for speed and acceleration and 8 for handling. And some of the stats like stamina and speed can be increased further by buying a good saddle and stirrups.

The game is a form of art

I love this game, truly. I love robbing trains and robbing stores, and stealing horses, robbing banks, the story is great and there is just so much to do. Graphically it is really amazing. And it has so much hidden depth to it like being able to do things not intended by devs. And it doesn't force you to do things you don't like.

I hope you enjoy this game as much as I do! And have the bestest day!

[atlasz]

This is extremely useful
Any thanx 🙏

[Kyyp]

The event for the black arabian can happen anywhere in St Denis, I have had it happen by the tailors shop and in an alley around the corner from the stable for me

[Cryptic]

And as of right now I have the horse at bond level 3 and it spooks significantly less than the bond level 4 arabian.

[Cryptic]

Found a stronger black & white horse in that race encounter inside the scarlet meadows area by catfish jackson's. If you get the encounter while on an arabian horse (you can use this guide or grab the white arabian by lake isabella) the racer will spawn with a slightly better horse of a different type which you can then steal. (I forgot the breed's name but it was 1 speed faster than the white arabian but it had 1 less point in acceleration.) Hope this helps some players <3.

[Ladyhawke]

I actually had no idea how this Black Arabian showed up in Saint Denis until I read this, but I got her in Chapter 2 pretty early on. I was in the right place right time I guess, because one night I was riding through and there's this black horse with a dead lady on it's rump. So I calmed it enough to get on, rode to a discreet loc, pulled her off, and the rest is history. Thanks for the guide.

[SirTokesAlot]

NAH HANDS DOWN THE WHITE ARABIAN ARE ALWAYS THE FASTEST ALSO THEYRE ONLY SPOOKED AT LOW LEVELS MATE

[19Peej]

@Overlord Agreed, my favourite is the old reliable Mustang!
That being said, my bond level 3 white Arabian has been doing decent lately haha

[Overlord]

I hate the arabian horses. Always spooks so easily. One stupid snake and it wants to drop me to the ground.

[fuiririn]

this is just like that time in gta where everyone searched for that adder as soon as you could freely control franklin

[tntistnt]

I did this and got the horse but the encounter was not across from the theater. So it is possible that the encounter could happen at several different spots in Saint Denis.