We're hosting a chat party!

Join us in The Bingo Hall on Saturday August 25th at 6 pm HP time!

We will be hosting games and handing out prizes, so you definitely don't want to miss it!

We're giving away a pair of store French Trotters with 150k points AND permanent extra energy to one lucky player!

To enter, reply to this topic with a fact about French Trotters!

You can enter until 11:59 pm HP time on Sunday 8/26. The winner will be chosen randomly on Monday 8/27!

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-Sam

"The French Trotter horse breed developed in France in the 1800s primarily from Anglo-Norman and Norman breeding stock infused with English Thoroughbred and Norfolk Trotter bloodlines."

"The most famous French Trotter is Young Rattler. Young Rattler was born in 1811 out of a Thoroughbred stallion and a Norfolk Trotter mare and is one of the foundation sires of the modern French Trotter breed. Other famous French Trotters include foundation stallions whose names became the names of the major bloodlines found in French Trotters. These include Fuschia, Phaeton, Lavater, Conquerant and Normand."

Fact from https://animals.mom.me/french-trotter-horses-3282.html

Entry:

French Trotters are also sometimes referred to as Norman Trotters, after Normandy, their place of origin.

 from: https://www.viovet.co.uk/breed_information/2-354/French-Trotter

Looking forward to the chat party!

"There are no – or only very rarely – grey trotters, as is the case with the Standardbred or the Orlov." (x)

I'll be petsitting that night, but hopefully I can get the wifi password and join in the chat party!

I hope I can stay awake long enough to join! :D

The French Trotter breed was developed for harness racing. Harness horses race at the trot, and a French Trotter's trotting speed can equal that of a galloping Thoroughbred race horse. The breed is raced on a traditional dirt or grass harness course pulling a sulky, as well as under saddle and in a sport called skijoring, in which the French Trotter races on snow pulling a person on skis behind him.

Reference: https://animals.mom.me/french-trotter-horses-3282.html

It has become a common practice to remove the shoe of French trotters before racing particularly for the purpose of increasing speed and improving its gait. In spite of having the genes of the American Standardbred horse, the French Trotter possesses a two-beat diagonal gait, rather than the lateral two-beat or pacing gait. Getting recognized officially in the year 1922, this is the most available breed in France in the recent times. (http://www.horsebreedspictures.com/french-trotter.asp)

Since the 70's an over-production of French Trotters has sent prices down. Considering that 60% of a given production does not qualify for the races, many horses become available for amateur riders or riding centers. A reformed 3 year old trotter broken-in to harness and saddle may be bought today for less than 1200 €.

thanks wikipedia!

Kaly won the giveaway! Thanks for entering, everyone :).

Congrats, Kaly!

thankyou Jaya :)

Congrats Kaly!!! :D

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