[Pandapop]

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.

This fishy Trotter has heard tall tales of pirates in their youth, but never imagined to be round up and on board with them...
What do you think their opinion on these pirates are now?
(40 word minimum.)

End Date: 5/16/24

Username: Archaeopteryx.
Show Name: A Soft Dusting of Sand
Barn Name: Drifter
Gender: Mare
Height: 14hh
Eye Color: Sunset on the Shore
Phenotype: Silver Daffodil Smoky Cream Pinnate Triggerfish w/Birdcatcher Spots
Genotype: Ee aa Crcr Zz DaDa Jspjsp TrfTrf + bc spots

- Will always pass daffodil [Da_] and triggerfish [Tsf_]
- Fin, mane and tail edits pass at artist's discretion

[kijauni]

Username: kijauni
Show Name: VEO's Free Like The Wind
Barn Name: Seefarer
Gender: Stallion
Height: 15 hh
Halter Color: Based on the Fin Edits!
Prompt: Seefarer always loved the storys about Pirates and how free, wild and independent they seemed. Thats why he ended up hiring on a ship and cruising the open, untamed oceans. His dream was to may be able to hire on a pirate ship one day and reach the epithome of freedom to him one day. Now as he looks at the scruffy, stinky, run down Crew which had captured his ship, he has second thoughts. Maybe, the storys about Pirates forgot to include that not all are wild men and some are just - criminals.

[Archaeopteryx.]

Username: Archaeopteryx.
Show Name: A Soft Dusting of Sand
Barn Name: Drifter
Gender: Mare
Height: 13.8hh
Halter Color: artist's choice! but may i request the rope one?
Prompt: A tomboyish and strong mare, Drifter has always dreamed of being a free creature on the breeze, drifting aimlessly from island to island. Despite the circumstances, Drifter can't help but see this as beneficial to her, in the end. She watches the pirates with a keen golden eye, so similar to the treasure they desire, and waits. These folk are no match for her, and soon, she will have a crew of her own.

[werepickle]

Username: werepickle
Show Name: HwP Chaos Is Key
Barn Name: Ziggy
Gender: stallion
Height: 13hh
Halter Color: light brown
Prompt:
After hearing many stories it’s like Ziggys dream come true to be part of a rag tag bunch pirates causing chaos and having the freedom to go whereever they please. He was always an untamed soul on land not finding in mundane things. But to be on the open seas seeing new places and trying new things he couldn’t have asked for a better thing to happen to him.

[DarkestWerewolf]

Username: DarkestWerewolf
Show Name: Wanderer of the Sea
Barn Name: Ronin
Gender: Stallion
Height: 14hh
Halter Color: Artist’s choice
Prompt:

Ronin grew up in a dog-eat-dog world. His circumstances growing up was far from ideal. He had to fight and struggle for every meal. Everyday was a gift with no certainty of tomorrow. He has seen many come and go, whether on their own will or against it.

Luck would have it that he was captured by pirates - those of which he has only heard thrilling tales of. The conditions he was forced in weren’t anything that he hasn’t experienced. It wasn’t ideal but it wasn’t as torturous as he thought it would be. The pirates lived up to the tales without a doubt. They were oddly inspiring.

Ronin would bide his time. His plan? He will takeover this ship. It’s a dog-eat-dog world after all.

[Pandapop]

Username: Archaeopteryx.
Show Name: A Soft Dusting of Sand
Barn Name: Drifter
Gender: Mare
Height: 13.8hh
Halter Color: artist's choice! but may i request the rope one?
Prompt: A tomboyish and strong mare, Drifter has always dreamed of being a free creature on the breeze, drifting aimlessly from island to island. Despite the circumstances, Drifter can't help but see this as beneficial to her, in the end. She watches the pirates with a keen golden eye, so similar to the treasure they desire, and waits. These folk are no match for her, and soon, she will have a crew of her own.

Congrats!
Clever girl...
(Hands roll over to the next digit after .3 so I've rounded her up to 14hh!)

HM's to kijauni, werepickle and DarkestWerewolf!