[Embergleam]

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.

The Devil's Eyes and The Ghost do exactly the opposite thing. So what happens when a trotter has both markings? You end up with something a little like this!

Trotters who carry at least one copy of both The Ghost and The Devil's Eyes will have a black-and-white striped mane, a black-on-white or white-on black face, and black eyes with white pupils, or white eyes with black pupils. While I've gone for a cracked porcelain look here, any spooky pattern is acceptable.

To win this trotter, tell me something contradictory about them, in at least 3 sentences. The most interesting answer wins!

End Date: 10.8.23

Username: strangetales
Show Name: the ghost devil's eyes
Barn Name: ghost devil

Gender: Mare
Height: 14.3 hh
Eye Color: Back to Haunt You
Phenotype: Black sooty lion's mane the devil's eyes the ghost demoiselle grey
Genotype: EE aa Gg Lmlm Dede TgTg

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[BananaSnake]

Username: BananaSnake
Show Name: Bump in the Night
Barn Name: Spirit
Gender: stallion
Height: 12.6hh
Halter Color: pastel red
Prompt: Spirit may look spooky, but he actually is scared of darkness and his own shadow. He believes shadows to be unnatural. Why does an echo of a workhorse have one? As for darkness, it’s something that terrified him in his first life too. So many things can hide in it! He stays as close to the light as he can, disliking the darkness of the place he lives in despite his spirit side feeling at home in it. Maybe one day he’ll get over his fear?

[strangetales]

Username: strangetales
Show Name: the ghost devil's eyes
Barn Name: ghost devil
Gender: mare
Height: 14.3hh
Halter Color: something spoopy
Prompt: she experiences a wide range of emotions and feels them quite intensely, but on the outside she is as stoic as a trotter can possibly be. others describe her as always calm and collected while she will plot a crime against you on the inside. she uses that to her advantage though and pretends that she is in fact very calm and nothing can shake her up while in reality she's very emotional, she is just unable or unwilling to actually show what's going on in her brain. kind of how a ghost may be quiet and inconspicuous (and dead) while a devil is full of rage and emotions, her markings reflect her contradictory personality.

[Echo Revna]

Username: Echo Raven
Show Name: PE A Ghost Hidden In The Cracks
Barn Name: Ghost
Gender: Stallion
Height: 15 hh
Halter Color: flame color
Prompt: Ghost is often seen as very extroverted and adventurous because he's always off getting himself in odd situation with friends in tow. Or even with other horses he's only just met that day. One time even getting stuck in a tree when he was just a baby (please don't ask, he's still not over it) with one of the slightly older colts. However, contrary to these incidents, he's actually very introverted and much prefers being alone, if possible, under a willow tree; and is actually a little intimidated by adventures. If he had his way, he'd only see the other horses once a week in a very controlled setting, as he somehow seems to attract, what he thinks of as bad luck.

[Queen Vivane]

Username: Queen Vivane
Show Name: Distressed
Barn Name: Shroud
Gender: Stallion
Height: 15hh
Halter Color: Match eyes
Prompt: He's looks incredibly nervous, always dancing about and moving almost constantly. But surprisingly he's actually a very calm horse, you could walk him past the flappiest plastic or the nosiest creature and he wont even bat an eye. Strange things he hasn't seen before? No problem, he'll just keep dancing about but it's mainly just because he likes moving.

[Starwindrider]

Username: Starwindrider
Show Name: NAS Do not go gentle into that good night
Barn Name: Mirche
Gender: Mare
Height: 14hh
Halter Color: Blue
Prompt: Mirche doesn't like blue. Yes, the flames and furnace markings on her body are blue, but honestly she likes orange so much better. Orange is brighter, more radiant, and the colour of the sun in the middle of summer, her favourite season. But ever since her other hallowed trotter friends taught her that blue is the colour of ghost fires - "It's very cool, you know. The blue colour." - she's accepted it much more.

[heyheygirl101]

Username: heyheygirl101
Show Name: LLE Don't Look In The Trees
Barn Name: Appalachia
Gender: Mare
Height: 13.3 hh
Halter Color: black with red eyes
Prompt: Appalachia can't get enough of scary stories especially about the area she gets her name sake from. She finds every scary story of the windy bois and the flesh beings and just the disembodied red eyes that exist in the trees ever so fascinating that she can't seem to stop listening to podcasts and audiobooks about them. The only problem with this torrid love affair she has with the scary "true" (whether you do or not she most definitely does) stories is they absolutely terrify her, making it next to impossible for her to sleep most nights when she gets the urge to listen to them unless something wholesome and usually childish is put on right after. Such as a classic disney movie or bluey.

[reshihall]

Username: reshihall
Show Name: Vivacious Vaporizin'
Barn Name: Vapor
Gender: Male
Height: 14.7 hh
Halter Color: white
Prompt:
Vapor loves the racing life, yet hates attending actual races. The amount of eyes on him from the audience makes him buckle under the pressure. His hooves fumble and he can't focus. This makes him fail at racing, despite loving it and hating the attention. He's ultimately terrified of racing, in the end.

[Embergleam]

Username: strangetales
Show Name: the ghost devil's eyes
Barn Name: ghost devil
Gender: mare
Height: 14.3hh
Halter Color: something spoopy
Prompt: she experiences a wide range of emotions and feels them quite intensely, but on the outside she is as stoic as a trotter can possibly be. others describe her as always calm and collected while she will plot a crime against you on the inside. she uses that to her advantage though and pretends that she is in fact very calm and nothing can shake her up while in reality she's very emotional, she is just unable or unwilling to actually show what's going on in her brain. kind of how a ghost may be quiet and inconspicuous (and dead) while a devil is full of rage and emotions, her markings reflect her contradictory personality.

Congratulations! This is a fascinating take on the prompt- I really enjoyed how you brought in the names of her markings as well!

HMs to Starwindrider and heyheygirl101, you guys made deciding really difficult!

[strangetales]

thank you so much!! <3