[HowlingHooves]

Range Trotters are the result of crossbreeding Orlov Trotters, Finnhorses, Welsh Cobs (section C & D) and Hanoverians. Later crosses of Quarter Horses, Paint and Appaloosas to gain color and to give a boost to their hardiness. With a height average of 13-15 hands, they're a hardy breed with characteristics for various disciplines.

Created for use as work, carriage and leisure riding horses originally, they now serve as long-distance range horses, such as work with Park Rangers and mounted officers.

Willing and eager personalities, most are quickly trained to be bombproof and therefore trusted mounts in all lines of work; some are being seen in local show jumping competitions, others are notably used in therapeutic sessions for their calm temperaments. Harness races and endurance trials are common for the breed, as they are able to sustain an extended trot without tire. Cross-Country competitions see some of the taller Trotters, but due to their cob lineage this is still uncommon.

Despite the variety of competitions and work these horses are being seen in, they are still famously skilled as endurance racers. Many competitors have chosen Range Trotters due to their tireless work ethic, as well as the ease in which they can be trained. Many have become champions in endurance trials, and they have quickly become a sought after breed for their natural ability.

Meet the River Hog! This one creates a two-tone striping mark from the eye back to the hindquarters. It shows as two or three thick, wavy stripes in black with a cream or off-white shadow. It always touches the edge of the eye, and must be fully solid without breaks.

To win this one, give them another animal companion, as long as it isn't the usual barnyard creature!
End Date: 3/17

Username: Doctor Strange
Show Name: not river hog, water hag
Barn Name: abaya

Gender: Mare
Height: 14 hh
Eye Color: Wild Roses
Phenotype: Bay Pearl River Hog Sabino
Genotype: Ee Aa prlprl RhgRhg Sbsb
- Dominant for Pearl, River Hog.

[Tyrant001]

Username: Mister Hollow
Show Name: Why Don't You Sing Me A Sweet Song?
Barn Name: Sweets
Gender: Stallion
Prompt: This Trotter has a friend in the form of a mockingbird, who inexplicably hates everyone and everything other than Sweets. He's been nicknamed 'Daring' due to his attitude, this little bird knows no fear of humans, horses, cats, dogs, or anything else that breathes, and regularly dive-bombs other critters and obnoxiously chatters away all night and day in the rafters above Sweets' stall, mimicking the sounds of the Trotter and other barn goings on, and regularly plucks up shed fur and mane and tail hair from Sweets and his stall for said nest. Sweets doesn't seem to mind his noisy upstairs neighbor at all, and in fact he spends a lot of time with the bird, or simply watching him above his stall as he builds and fusses over his nest.

[►Athena◄]

Username: ►Athena◄
Show Name: ORT Lost in the Labyrinth
Barn Name: Labyrinth
Gender: Stallion
Halter Color: Artist's Choice
Prompt: Labyrinth has a little friend, a small black squirrel we call Bucky, that likes to follow him around. If Bucky ever gets too tired of running along the top of the paddock fence after Labyrinth, he will just scurry up Labyrinth's tail and curl up to take a nap right on Labyrinth's back. From a distance you might not even realize Bucky is there since he blends in with Labyrinth's stripes!

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[hellenistic]

Username: hellenistic
Show Name: rs one hell of a ride
Barn Name: jerald - will def change but for lack of better ideas atm :')
Gender: stallion
Entry:
wip >:)

[Furrydogs12]

Username: Furrydogs12
Show Name: Forever Long, Forever More
Barn Name: Promise
Gender: Mare
Promise's friend is a little hummingbird, who never leaves her side. This little hummingbird was rescued by Promise when it was a tiny little chick.

[strangetales]

Username: Doctor Strange
Show Name: not river hog, water hag
Barn Name: abaya
Gender: mare
Halter: up to you c:
Prompt: a... a dinosaur?? just kidding, it's an alligator. the little fella was once found eating the empty burlap sacks in the stable and now abaya likes to join the creature - she eats the hay, the alligator eats the burlap sacks.

note: no, i have no idea what i'm doing, but the word river hog reminded me of water hag and i will now keep calling the marking water hag. witcher stans rise.

[bronc]

Username: .bay
Show Name: horses are faster
Barn Name: oakley
Gender: mare
Halter color: gunmetal gray
Prompt: a greater kudu named stetson. stetson was rescued from an exotic hunting operation and brought to sequoia stables as a young calf to be rehabilitated, where he immediately attached himself to the older and grumpy oakley, and years later, he is still around. he is the one and only animal who oakley will (reluctantly) share food with.

[werepickle]

Username: werepickle
Show Name: A Magic Dragon
Barn Name: Falkor
Gender: Stallion
Halter Colour: pastel yellow
Falkors companion is a little dragon know as Chusi. Only he can see Chusi but that doesn't stop him having grand adventures with her no matter how strange he looks.

[HowlingHooves]

so so sorry for the delay-

winner is Doctor Strange!

hms to wilder & werepickle. c:

[strangetales]

thank you!! <3