Talk:Race: The Great Erasmus Vegelbud Memorial Derby/@comment-35459957-20180501104411

If you want to cheat your way through the Palio, and indeed ALL of the horse races, here's how (on PC only):

Google "Witcher 3 Roach Infinite Stamina Mod" and click the first link to Nexus Mods and download that mod. Put that mod in the newly made (or already made) MODS folder for Witcher 3. When you load the game again, it will compile the new mod and Roach will have unlimited stamina when you run her. Beat the Palio and all the other horse races. Get your stupid prizes and then uninstall the mod by simply removing it from the folder. You'll want to remove it because it may cause your game to crash and you really don't need it on all the time (I personally run and fast travel everywhere because Roach rides for crap and is more hassle than she is worth). I myself had massive crashing when first going to new zones when I had this mod on (and sometimes with it off).

If you don't want to cheat, just make sure to at least get to Skellige and do the quests there so you can win one of the better saddles and have a fighting chance against this cheap, cheating AI opponent in the Palio. Another move would be to win the race against the Ofieri merchant in the upper Northeast corner of the Novigrad map in the expansions Hearts of Stone (the merchant next to the runesmith) and you will win a nice Ofieri Stock Saddle. Honestly, you should just cheat since all of the races aren't great and the winnings won't really change your reality too much.