[Pandapop]

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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.

Another Major Arcana Tarot prompt!
This time tell me which of the 24 cards this Trotter resonates least with, and why.
(150 word minimum)
End Date: 10/23

Username: heyheygirl101
Show Name: LLE White Knights Are For Fairytales
Barn Name: Brunor
Gender: Stallion
Height: 14.2hh
Eye Color: Cold Metal
Phenotype: Black Smoke Badger Grey Silver Bullet w/Birdcatcher Stars
Genotype: EE aa Bgbg ArgArg + smoke + bc stars

- Dominant for extension [E_]
- Will always pass silver bullet [Arg_]

[werepickle]

Username: werepickle
Show Name: HwP In Full Swing
Barn Name: Pepper
Gender: mare
Height: 14hh
Halter Color: pink
Prompt:
Pepper least resonates with #9 The Hermit. She is a social butterfly and yearns to make friends with whoever she can. Always on the move and a stride in her in her step she rarely likes the dark side and whenever she needs to understand things she'll always confide in her friends seeking their guidance. Pepper has never been one to seek solitude or enjoy the peace and calmness of being alone and prefers the chaos that being outgoing and social brings.

[Chamrosh]

Username: Chamrosh
Show Name: In the Dark of the Night
Barn Name: Midnight
Gender: Mare
Height: 13.0 hands
Halter Color: Gold
Prompt:
Death - Midnight is really really really bad at goodbyes, and endings. Her mum died when she was really young, and now she fears that any time anyone leaves her, it might be the last time she sees them.
The name certainly doesn't help! Even if she felt more affinity to the card, she'd probably reject it just because of the name.
Even when it doesn't involve anyone leaving her, she doesn't like change in general. Change is anathema to her, and she likes things to be predictable, under strict routine. She makes a point to maintain her schedule as much as she can, kicking up a fuss and braying almost systematically as soon as it looks like her schedule might be disrupted. She's a creature of habit, and trying to teach her new tricks or behaviours is a massive struggle, to the point that the stable hands very rarely bother unless something is absolutely necessary.

[heyheygirl101]

Username: heyheygirl101
Show Name: LLE White Knights Are For Fairytales
Barn Name: Brunor
Gender: Stallion
Height: 14.2 hh
Halter Color: iron
Prompt: Brunor resonates least with The Hanged Man, as often when it arises there is call for a personal sacrifice in some way, he is the furthest from one who would sacrifice anything to better anyone including himself. Brunor is stuck in his old habits and too stubborn and hard of head to give up on the ways he has lived for the past 15 years, that includes his old tricks of hiding in the abandoned mine shafts during the halloween activities, leaving only for the essentials of food and water but never really straying from the area. Though the more adaptable horses of the Island have definitely attempted to inform him that the humans are getting much bolder than they were 5 years ago let alone a decade ago and now have hobbies/careers that include something called Mine Exploration that specifically highlights these hidden and abandoned places, he has yet to change his refuge... which is most likely the reason, that this was the last year Brunor called the Island home.

[Embergleam]

Username: Embergleam
Show Name: RRS The Van Allen Belts Are Singing
Barn Name: Allen
Gender: Stallion
Height: 12.3 hh
Halter Color: Artist's choice
Prompt:
Allen does not at all resonate with card #2, the High Priestess, although he very much wants to.

Allen is a naturally high-strung trotter, plagued by restlessness and crippling anxiety. His coping strategy of choice is nigh-obsessive planning. He has plans A-Z waiting in the wings, backed up by rigorous documentation and flowcharts upon flowcharts upon flowcharts. According to his logic, if he simply prepares for every possibility, he can't be caught off-guard. If he can't be caught off-guard, nothing truly bad can happen to him or those he cares about. That means he's safe. It means he can stop worrying someday. That day may not be today, in fact may not even be visible on the far-off horizon, but surely it must exist!

It's not a particularly healthy worldview. Whether he wants to admit that aloud is another story.

Allen's life is thus one of rigidity, the polar opposite of the fluid intuition championed by the High Priestess. The thought of abandoning his beloved facts and logic nauseates him. Accepting anything on faith flies in the face of everything he believes, and yet...

Others don't live as he does, ruled by cold logic and frantic adherence to labyrinthine rule sets. They simply live, trusting that their hearts will lead them true. He envies them that freedom and desperately wants to emulate it. Deep down he's aware that his current way of living isn't sustainable in the long term. Bound as he is in chains of his own making, he isn't quite sure how to take that first leap of faith into the unknown.

[Baobabel]

Username: Baobabel
Show Name: Mesmerizing Mercury
Barn Name: Quicksilver
Gender: Mare
Height: 14.3hh
Halter Color: Flame/Silver
Prompt: Quicksilver resonates least with The Emperor. She has never had the desire to lead others, in fact she actively will turn down leadership roles. She is not an overly ambitious or forceful trotter. Her ways are more subtle and covert. Like her namesake, she is fluid and flexible. She is adaptable and versatile rather than structured.

[Pandapop]

Username: heyheygirl101
Show Name: LLE White Knights Are For Fairytales
Barn Name: Brunor
Gender: Stallion
Height: 14.2 hh
Halter Color: iron
Prompt: Brunor resonates least with The Hanged Man, as often when it arises there is call for a personal sacrifice in some way, he is the furthest from one who would sacrifice anything to better anyone including himself. Brunor is stuck in his old habits and too stubborn and hard of head to give up on the ways he has lived for the past 15 years, that includes his old tricks of hiding in the abandoned mine shafts during the halloween activities, leaving only for the essentials of food and water but never really straying from the area. Though the more adaptable horses of the Island have definitely attempted to inform him that the humans are getting much bolder than they were 5 years ago let alone a decade ago and now have hobbies/careers that include something called Mine Exploration that specifically highlights these hidden and abandoned places, he has yet to change his refuge... which is most likely the reason, that this was the last year Brunor called the Island home.

Congrats!
HM's to Chamrosh and Embergleam!

[heyheygirl101]

Thank you so much!
Congrats to the HMs as well ♡