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Owner: Frostbite18

Show Name: Love and Sacrifice

Barn Name: Bess

Gender: Mare

Breed: Bashkir Curly

Height: 15.3 hh

Coloration: Bay Roan

Age: 7

[Apple Cinnamon Spice]

Owner: Apple Cinnamon Spice
Show Name: Daisy May
Barn Name: Daisy
Gender: Mare
Breed: Bashkir Curly
Height: 15.3 hh
Coloration: Bay Roan
Age: 7
Discipline: Trail And Pleasure
Temperament: Daisy May is very sweet and patient. Very rarely she will act up if something spooks her. She is very good with children and works with disabled ones.
Quirks: Daisy May loves to eat dandelions. No one knows why since she was raised in the wild. She also loves to play with the farm animals around the farm. She also likes to try and dance with the chickens even though they run away from fright of being mushed.

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Congrats Frostbite - reusing some components of form!

[Tailish]

Owner: Tailish
Show Name: Dancing Through The Dusk
Barn Name: Dace or Dance
Gender: Mare
Breed: Bashkir Curly
Height: 15.3 hh
Coloration: Bay Roan
Age: 7
Discipline: Dressage
Temperament: Dace is extremely showy and loves performing in front of an audience. Her movements are often exaggerated and her owner will have a hard time getting her to calm down after a performance. However, out of the ring Dace is a real sweetheart, and loves to be brushed while dozing in the sun. Riding out is not a problem with her, but beware of the puddles.
Quirks: Dace has a thing for potatoes. While she is normally quite vain, Dace will go to any length to dig up a potato plant and play around with it by tossing it onto the ground and nudging it with her foot or her head. She could have a career in polo if she keeps it up...
Additionally, the one treat Dace adores is straw, even though she's not allowed to eat it. Dace has to be put in a box with flakes and some horse toys to keep her from eating the straw that would normally be on the floor.

[Inupait]

Owner:
"Hi my name is Inupait, I one Arrow Hearth Stables which currently
holds 5 very awesome Cottenwood horses that i truly love dearly"
Show Name:
"Her show name if i winner would be Inux Bookmark because
the moment i saw her that is what i wanted to do; bookmark her
page so i could make a killer form for her and work on it for hours!
and Inux is just the prefix i have chosen for my stables"
Barn Name:
"This spunky little mare is called Boomer at the barn because she has
a knack for spontaneous explosions of misbehaviour and her spunky
personality. she likes to paw at the door of her stall when you pass
making a big Boom so she was often called Boom till Boomer became
more popular"
Gender:
"She is a lovely Mare"
Breed:
"She is a Bashkir Curly"
Height:
"She is 15.3 hh"
Coloration:
"She is a Bay Roan"
Age:
"She is 7 years old"
Discipline:
"Boomer was originally trained in the discipline of Dressage but her
quirks and destructive nature made her seem unfit for any sort of show
ring activities. she was owned by a professional dressage competitor
and he became frustrated with her misbehaving and she was sold. I
was fortunate enough to purchase this little ray of sunshine without
knowing her habits. within the first week she showed me how much
she liked to jump by escaping several times from her outdoor paddock
so i se up some jumps and just blew off some steam. Turns out that she
loved to jump and i have been competing in show jumping with her
ever since and she loves it!
Temperament:
"Although Curlies are characterized by their easy going calm personality
traits, Boomer is not a cooky cutter curly. she has a wild side that
makes her quite a handful. I would only suggest experienced riders with
tones of confidence and a firm hand to try their luck in the saddle with
this gal. She is constantly testing her rider trying to find loopholes so
that she can get away with things she knows are improper. sometimes
she even bucks just to try and scare the rider who is on her if she feels
uncertainty in their seat. But on foot she is a livable creature with a
bright mean to learn personality that makes her a favourite to all who
meet her. she is well mannered doing everything but under saddle."
Quirks:
"Boomer's Main Quirk is when she gets frustrated with her rider she is
known for pulling the stop-and-turn tactic on them. she will allow them
to get into the rhythm of her forward motion then randomly stop and
turn her body quickly so that staying in the saddle is quite a challenge.
she also likes to make sure her rider is awake and focus by crow hopping
when she thinks they are starting to doze in the saddle."

[ellyenchanted]

Discipline:
Memory has been started in many things including dressage
as well as foxhunting and western pleasure, but she never
really enjoyed or put her heart into any of these activities.
It was only when she went on her first endurance ride that
we realized she had quite a talent. So we put more training
on her, and soon she was an expert endurance horse!

Temperament:
When paired with an intermediate to advanced rider, Memory
tends to be a bit more snotty and testy. She offers the occasional
buck or head throw when frustrated or simply doesn't want
to do something. However, when paired with a beginner rider,
Memory shifts her attitude and tends to be more gentle and
compliant. She's truly a great horse, but can prove to be
quite a challenge to those who are up for it.

Quirks:
Memory happens to be a talented escape artist. She has always
found a way to get out of her stall or pasture. And forget about
just casually tying her to a fence post, as she will most likely
get out of that too. A lot of money has been put into everything
so that it is Memory proof!

Owner:
Morning.

Show Name:
My Battle Scars

Barn Name:
Memory

Gender:
Mare

Breed:
Bashkir Curly

Height:
15.3 hh

Coloration:
Bay Roan

Age:
7

[Apple Cinnamon Spice]

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Owner: Three the Neko
Show Name: Rapunzel Let Your Hair Flow
Barn Name: Indigo
Gender: Mare
Breed: Bashkir Curly
Height: 15.3 hh
Coloration: Bay Roan
Age: 7
Discipline: Dressage
Temperament: Indigo's temperament is sweet with a touch of spice. What I mean is that even thought she is gentle with her rider and as patient as a show horse could be, when she is frustrated she will disobey commands easily leading to her being a hand full. When she is in the middle of a show, her attitude switches into one of a princess who wants attention, tossing her curly mane and striding around to show her muscles to her fans. In a nutshell, Indigo is a well groomed princess with over the top self confidence.
Quirks:
1. As Indigo cares for her looks she tends to lick herself often. Its a habit that every 10 minutes or so she has the lick her mane and her coat so it is nice and silky.
2. When cramped in her stall, Indigo will repeatedly move back and forth, left to right, diagonally, anything that will help her exercise her muscles. She also does this when nervous.
3. Whenever she is in the presence of water, she will dip either her hoof or her tongue in to see if it is the right temperature. She will not drink or bath in the water if it's to hot or cold.
4. If anyone tries to put bows or ribbons on her mane or tail, she will start to try to bite them off, even if it means ripping her hair in the process.
5. She has a major sweet tooth leading to amounts of apples and sugar cubes often disappearing at night.

[Frostbite18]

Owner: Frostbite18

Show Name: Love and Sacrifice

Barn Name: Bess

Gender: Mare

Breed: Bashkir Curly

Height: 15.3 hh

Coloration: Bay Roan

Age: 7

Discipline:
Driving and general western. Bess was trained for many things, she was actually great at dressage. However she could never win the dressage shows for one reason, she didn't enjoy dressage. The judges could see this and dressage is also about unity, teamwork between horse and rider, not just going through the motions. At her new home she tried many things before someone thought to hitch her to a cart. She loved the feeling of throwing her weight into the harness, of her muscles smoothly pulling as she moved the cart. It was also discovered that she found general western riding very exciting, so she does some of that as well.

Temperament:
Bess is a kind mare who is exceedingly smart. She is generally pretty trustworthy and her sweet attitude has led many to adore her. Do not mistake her for a pushover though, she does not take kindly to people trying to force her into things. If she is smacked with a crop, she will buck or bolt. If the bit is tugged upon she will stop dead and not move until the rider has quieted their rough hands. She will challenge her rider but is never cruel, Bess only wants to teach them.

Quirks:
- Bess adores the colour red, no one knows why but it is most likely linked to her past. Before CWHR, from wherever it is she came from....
- She is petrified of dogs, if she sees one she will bolt and it takes a long while before she can be calmed down
- Bess loves to eat pudding, ya pudding. Being as smart as she is, Bess will get out sometimes. Once she she got into the riders lounge, opened the fridge and helped herself to some pudding cups. Ever since she has loved pudding, sometime people will give it to her.
- When she is scared Bess does an odd thing. She will bend down and chew on her feathers, weird right? Her people have no clue why she does this but it certainly looks strange and is very unlike her usual proper personality.
- If Bess is excited her ears began to twitch back and forth erratically. It is pretty amusing

Likes

Dislikes

PUDDING

DOGS!

Calm, gentle riders

Injustice

Exciting events

Being indoors for long periods of time

Rain

Boredom

Snow

Hot days (it sucks for her hair!)

Cats

Dressage (So slow and careful)

Having a ribbon in her hair (strange girl)

Crops, spurs ect..

Shiny things

Shrubs (They look like crouching predators!)

Being loved
Music, any other from that new pop!
Pulling (cart, logs ect..)

History

Bess was born on a large farm that specialized in breeding purebred bashkir curly horses. The beautiful filly was the pride and joy of the farm. She was adored and she knew it, but the humans adoration was only for her worth and her beauty. Now her dear mother was different. She told Bess to never give in, she said do what YOU love and if the humans don't accept this then fight for it. Bess never let these words leave her, she knew her mother was one of the wisest mares on the whole farm. Though at the time Bess thought the humans did love her for being her. Then came the accident. A new stable hand dropped his cigarette one evening, it spread through the straw and hay in minutes. Luckily it was around 5:00pm so many stable hands were still at the farm and none had gone home, or to their on the farm cabin to sleep. Sadly Bess was in one of the last stalls, the nicest stalls. When they got her out, at the last second, she had been badly burned. Her long, glimmering mane and tail were almost non-existent. Her gorgeous curly fur was nearly all burned off and her skin was burned pretty bad too. The owners, already infuriated with the loss of the barn, decided to sell their stock. Even Bess, she was no longer beautiful, she wouldn't win shows so she had no use. Bess finally realized that her mother was right and the people never really cared for her. No one wanted the responsibility of the burned mare and foal. Bess and her mother were quickly sent of to the auction as no one would buy them. Bess went out first, it wasn't looking good with the top bid being at $200. Suddenly a red haired womyn stood and the number $700 rang out. The meet buyers refused to pay so much for such a scrawny foal that would need treatment and such before shipping. Nyra was her buyers name, she had seen the potential in the poor young horse and was willing to put forth the effort to heal her. Bess watched worriedly as her mother came out on stage. Her heart nearly leapt from her chest as Nyra took her mother as well. The two were quite happy at Night Thorn Ranch, they had friends and Nyra obviously loved them for more than their appearance. Sadly her mother health was failing, she had not been properly treated after inhaling all the smoke and enduring the burns. Her dam was sick and she grew weaker by the day, Nyra could see this and was just happy the mare could have a peaceful end. One day her dam could not get up, Bess pleaded and prodded her mother."I shall not stand again my dear.....my time is now. I know you are safe now, you will never leave this place" she neighed softly to Bess. Bess shook her head but her mother turned and stuck her muzzle into her own mane. Bess watched in confusion as her mother worked away at something. At last she turned and at Bess's feet she placed a red ribbon. " This is from my old caretaker. She was an elderly womyn and the two of us had many great years together. I was sad when she stopped spending so much time with me, her visits were fewer and fewer, she never rode me anymore. One morning they brought her out to me, she looked like a corpse. Her touch was soft as she twined a red ribbon into my mane. She said to never forget her, I never saw her again but I have kept this from all these years, hidden beneath my mane so no one could take it" she wheezed painfully. "Now its yours my darling....remember me...." she never moved again. Bess was distraught as she took that slightly burned, weather worn ribbon of the ground. She would keep it with her as long as she lived. After Nyra had taken her mothers body away, Bess trotted over and nosed Nyra with the ribbon in her maw. Nyra stared in shock, she had been certain that she had seen something red in the dam's mane. "So that's what it was" she mumbled, reaching to take it. The filly snorted and turned her head, touching the ribbon to her mane. Nyra understood, she tightly entwined the red ribbon in the filly's lush black mane. Suddenly she rembered a poem, of a girl named Bess who had long black hair and a dark red love knot in it. "Bess" Nyra mumbled, at last finding a fitting name for her. Bess whinnied in a approval, eyeing the red ribbon with adoring eyes. She would never forget how special that ribbon was. (Sorry it got way longer than I was intending...)

Art

( Sorry is a little hard to see in places, just a quick sketch as mum hurried me to bed
http://www.irishhorsedrawncaravans.com/ ... essEng.gif - ref for harness

( Another quick one with my last edit, enjoy)

( Hope it's okay that I had to edit to add art, I could only add it via iPad and form was on the computer)

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Closed for judging! You fabulous people are making this hard!