Toy horsey

For a list of all references to horses, see Horse.

A Toy horsey is an item made as a joke by Jagex, poking fun at the requests made by players to have horses. It was released on 1 April as part of the 2004 April Fools joke. It is only the second time in which horses exist in RuneScape, as unicorns are similar to horses.

Toy horseys are obtainable from Diango for 150 coins each, and come in four different colours: white, black, grey, and brown. Members can also buy toy horseys from Rasolo the merchant, near Baxtorian Falls. Members can also make one from a plank on any crafting table in their player-owned house. They need a Crafting level 10 or higher, and gain 15 experience points in doing so.

When playing with the horsey, an animation appears showing the character playing with it. Text appears above the player's head, saying Just say neigh to gambling!

The text displayed when playing with the horsey used to be horse related-phrases such as Come on Dobbin, we can win the race!; Hi-ho Silver, and away!; or ''Neaahhhyyy! Giddy-up horsey!'' However, this was changed to it's current form on 13 January in response to the item's use in gambling games. This new phrase would always appear, preventing the use of the item in gambling.

Gambling
The items became popular for use in the "Horse Game", a gambling game that arose after the dice bag (and dicing) was banned and taken away from the game. Players would bet on whether a certain phrase would appear when the horsey was played with. Players should note that while the payouts were larger (often 3 or 4 times cash offered for winning), the chances of winning decrease from 45% (a 55+ roll of the dice) to only 33% (1/3 chance of correct phrase) while playing the "Horse Game." Players should also be aware that this method, along with other forms of currently existing gambling, was often used for scamming until the update mentioned above.

Trivia

 * After they were first released, this text used to show up in the public box, allowing people to spam by playing with their toy horsey but this was fixed with a later update.