[strangetales]

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.

tell me an interesting fact about a tree or trees in general.

Username: SabrinaB
Show Name: GC Dashing Through The Meadow
Barn Name: Arlena

Gender: mare
Height: 13.2hh
Eye Color: he'll come for you too
Phenotype: smoky cream hot foam butterfly spots
Genotype: EE aa CrCr FmFm Btsbts

- will always pass extension (E), cream (Cr) & butterfly spots (Bts)

[.ludicrous.]

Username: Owl_Roast
Show Name: Little Winged Valkyrie
Barn Name: 13hh
Gender: Mare
Height: 13hh
Halter Colour: Deep Blue
Prompt: Everybody likes to credit trees for giving off oxygen, but they actually only provide roughly 28%. Trees are posers.

[SabrinaB]

Username: SabrinaB
Show Name: GC Dashing Through The Meadow
Barn Name: Arlena
Gender: mare
Height: 13.2hh
Halter Colour: white with grey dots
Prompt: Trees are the longest living organisms on Earth, and never die of old age.
California holds the record for the oldest living trees. Some of the state’s bristlecone pines and giant sequoias are 4,000-5,000 years old. Methuselah, an estimated 4,852-year-old ancient Bristlecone Pine, is one of the oldest living trees in the world.

[Taxidea]

Username: Taxidea
Show Name: TT Halfway to the Sky
Barn Name: Redwood
Gender: Mare
Height: 15.3hh
Halter Colour: Redwood
Prompt: I was listening to a Radiolab episode recently where they were interviewing a scientist who has spent decades high in the canopies of California redwood trees, and this scientist was describing how not only have unique ecosystems formed up in the canopies (like 100+ feet off the ground), these ecosystems have soil deposits on the redwoods' branches and neighboring trees will have roots that are implanted in the soil, so the trees are almost feeding off of each other. It was absolutely fascinating how there are species that never touch the ground because they are terrestrial organisms that live entirely up in the canopies. There was just so much more and it was all incredible...I'm going to link to the episode lol

[Andromeda]

Username: Andromeda
Show Name: YH Beautiful Bones
Barn Name: Bayleaf
Gender: Mare
Height: 12.3hh
Halter Colour: A dull green, like swampy
Prompt: There are more trees on Earth than there are stars in the milky way ;3

[Pandora!]

Username: Pandora!
Show Name: OHS Layers of Myself
Barn Name: Birch
Gender: mare
Height: 13.1hh
Halter Colour: inspired by the bark of a birch tree!
Prompt: Birch trees are one of my personal favorite tree species where I'm from, specifically the paper-bark birched aptly named for their thin, paper-like white bark that peels off in layers. Native to Canada and the Northern US, paper-bark birch trees have been historically used by indigenous groups for making all sorts of things like canoes, baby cradles, coffins, footwear, drums, and housing. The sap can be used to cure leather, waterproof canoes, and as a medicinal salve. As an outdoorsy person myself, I always like to keep a stash of birch bark because it's a fool proof fire starter: birch bark lights on fire even when it's damp!

[strangetales]

Username: SabrinaB
Show Name: GC Dashing Through The Meadow
Barn Name: Arlena



congrats! rewarding an hm to taxidea.