Every stable could use an extra pair of hands, so we are opening a new tab in the Magic shop: Assistants. The first one you can hire is the Personal squire.

Your squire is an AI assistant of your own. Give it a name, and it will help you find your way around the stables: which of your horses need care, which shows suit them, how breeding and your ranch work, and where to find things in the game. It answers from the game's own rules, and it remembers what you tell it about how you like to play.

A few things to know:
- The Personal squire costs 6,000 credits and serves you for 3 game years.
- It can look things up and explain them, but it never plays for you: it cannot feed horses, spend coins or credits, or do anything to other players.
- It only sees what you could see yourself in the game.
- You can ask it up to 100 questions a day; the counter at the top of its window shows how many are left.

For account, payment or lost-horse problems, the Help chat is still the place to go.

We hope your squire makes the stables feel a little less lonely. Tell us how you get on!

— The A Virtual Horse team