[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.

NEW MARKING!
introducing tombstone (TbTb / Tbtb)!
this uncommon marking resembles a (cracked) tombstone of any classic shape along the front legs and over the shoulder, but the maximum expression is seen to express up to the withers. it may or may not show any kind of tombstone writing.



this trotter's tombstone seems to pay homage to a novelist... give this trotter a name fitting for a vampire!

Username: PrincessAlexis
Show Name: Lux Stars' The Fountain of Youth is Blood
Barn Name: Vladimir (Vlad for short)

Gender: stallion
Height: 14.0hh
Eye Color: pretty much dead
Phenotype: silver smoky black tombstone
Genotype: Ee aa ZZ Crcr Tbtb

- will always pass silver (Z)

[PrincessAlexis]

Username: PrincessAlexis
Show Name: Lux Stars' The Fountain of Youth is Blood
Barn Name: Vladimir (Vlad for short)
Gender: Male
Height: 14 hh
Halter Color: Red and black
Prompt: His name is reference to the fact that vampires don't age and I wanted to give him an Eastern European name

[Pandapop]

Username: Pandapop
Show Name: "EVS" Crypt Writer
Barn Name: Ambrosia
Gender: Mare
Height: 14hh
Halter Color: Gray gradients
Prompt:

Show name is actually from a quote/joke...
"Where does a vampire get all his jokes?"
"From a crypt writer!"

"Ambrosia" meaning "immortality."

[Taxidea]

Username: Taxidea
Show Name: TT Year Without A Summer
Barn Name: Lord Ruthven
Gender: Stallion
Height: 15.1hh
Halter Color: Vampire Red
Prompt: 'The Vampyre" was a short story written by John William Polidori in 1816, the Year Without A Summer, while vacationing in Switzerland with some famous friends, namely Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, and Percy Shelley. The story reportedly was developed based on a contest prompted by Lord Byron, the same event that led Mary Shelley to write Frankenstein. "The Vampyre" is considered to be the story that led to the birth of the modern vampire novel. Its main character, Lord Ruthven, is the vampire. The Year Without A Summer was a volcanic winter caused by the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia. It caused massive food shortages throughout Europe, and probably would've made vampires very happy.

[Lath]

Username: Dothraki
Show Name: BKD's Interview With A Vampire
Barn Name: Lestat
Gender: Stallion
Height: 14.1hh
Halter Color: Matching flames
Prompt: Self explanatory haha

[Furrydogs12]

Username: Furrydogs12
Show Name: Bitten by a Vampire
Barn Name: Dracula
Gender: Stallion
Height: 14.3 hh
Halter Color: eye color
Prompt:

[orse]

Username: orse
Show Name: Mother Made Us Vampires
Barn Name: Salvatore
Gender: Stallion
Height: 15.2hh
Halter Color: same colour as the flames!
Prompt: scary vampiresss

[Catdoof]

Username: Catdoof
Show Name: CDs Stronger than Memory
Barn Name: Van Gelding
Gender: Stallion
Height: 15hh
Halter Color: Stone grey with the black cracks
Prompt: yeah

[Tyrant001]

Username: Tyrant001
Show Name: This Is The Skin Of A Killer, Bella
Barn Name: Edward
Gender: Stallion
Height: 14hh
Halter Color: Diamondy
Prompt: I'm sorry

[Tineye]

Username: Tineye
Show Name: Victim of Consumption
Barn Name: Mercy Brown
Gender: Mare
Height: 13.3hh
Halter Color: Flame color
Prompt: Mercy Brown was a notable historic 'vampire' of the New England vampire panic. Most historic vampires were just people who died of consumption aka tuberculosis.