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I'm not sure if this is going to work very well since image hosting sites are starting to suck..

EDIT: Sharayah to the rescue! Thank you for the image host site! It worked like a charm!

But this is Zeffirelli... My 18 year old OTTB Thoroughbred.. I first seen him when I was 13 and he was a 2 year old on stall rest at a Thoroughbred breeding barn I worked at in exchange for board for my old Quarter Horse man... He had a fractured right shoulder. His trainer constantly warned me to stay away from his stall, that he was mean... I seen something else. I seen a horse that was very misunderstood.. over the course of his stay at the barn while in recovery, I grew attached to him.. I'd go out and hand pick him clover and I always made sure he had adequate hay and water.. he was never mean to me! He'd nicker at me when I came into the barn in the morning! Then I found out that he was the son of my favorite broodmare, Amberleigh... Amber was a sad case.. she had a bad club foot that got harder and harder to keep her comfortable with as she got older.. when she had her last foal, everyone knew that her time was at an end when we found her nursing her last foal while she laid on the ground.. the day they trailered her away to be Euthanized, I ran into Zeffirelli's stall were I buried my face into his neck and cried.. all while he just stood there, quiet as can be!
Then the day came for him to go back into training.. thankfully my mom took a job at the track as a hot walker so I always went with her to see my boy! Every night while the races ran, I'd be in his stall, sitting with his head on my lap as he snored his night away! One night I seen his groom walk by with another horse and he looked at me all while shaking his head.. he apparently went to my mother and told her that he would kill me one day if I kept doing stupid things like that.. almost 17 years later, he's still the love of my life and will continue to be until our last breath



This is the horse I found that closest resemble my boy...
His father was a Chestnut so I know for a fact he's eE.. plus I filtered the search by size because as a 2 year old, Zeffirelli was taped in at 16.2hh and continued to grow until he was 6!
Only thing about this pixel that my boy doesn't have is the frame and the white front sock (my boy only has a back sock)


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Well I think I picked a hard one... I looked through literally hundreds of pixel ponies trying to find the closest match! Splash and frame are tricky because even if the genes are close, there could be so many possibilities in the way the pattern turns out!

This is Casper, my own very first horse. We bought him when I was around 11, and he is a big lazy lovebug. I showed him some but mostly just wanted to hack him. He is 21 now and mostly blind but still the sweetest guy ever! I no longer ride but he is happy being a pasture pony on my family's land.

This is the closest pixel pony I could find... I think it would look closer with a chestnut red base instead of red dun, as Casper's color is a bit darker/more intense. But this one has his blue eyes!


https://www.huntandjump.com/horse.php?horseid=6648066

This is Rosie, a true Rainbow Rider pony. Her dam belonged to the program and she spent her life making people with disabilities happy. I met her in May of 1994 when she was just a few hours old, helped with her training, and used her for both riding and driving. We had to let her go this spring at the age of 26 because of an enlarging tumor on her left ovary that was adversely affecting her behavior.



This game pony comes fairly close to looking like her. She had more white on her face and not as much on her legs. Her stockings were more flaxen colored than white. She also had dapples, some seasons more than others. She didn't have as much feathering on her legs.


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This is Derringer my very first heart heart horse May 18th 2017 i hit an oily spot on the road and rolled my truck which caused me to break my back. The doctors told me I would never set foot in the saddle again. 6 long months of seeing a chiropractor and I was given the okay to ride, 3 days later my boyfriends mom gave me 3 year old derringer. I am the only one who has ever been on her back as well as training her. We completed an 8.1 mile trail ride with a stirrup that broke mid gallop halfway home! She has helped me gain confidence I thought id never get back :x
This is where I wish they showed more Grey process since derringer is in fact going Grey though she looks buckskin right now lol



This game pony is the closest to what she looks like right now


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I don’t know how to load pictures to a thread so I’ll link.

This is Brandi. She’s my first horse, and my best girl. She’s the sort of horse that tailors herself to her rider. Baby sit the beginner, challenge the more advanced rider. She’s grown with me as I’ve learned and has always taken good care of me. She’s one in a million and completely irreplaceable. We’ve been together almost 10 years now, and she’s down for anything I throw at her. She adores barrel racing, lights right up, and we may try our hand at roping.
https://little-red-mare.tumblr.com/post/187445191836/just-an-assortment-of-pictures-of-my-best-girl

This one’s leg white is a little different, but the colour tone is most faithful to her sooty, which is really striking in person.

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This is my 11yr old OTTB Thoroughbred (and me giving him loving) his race name was Boat Parade barn name blitz. He was a crap race horse and only raced one (he lost). The only notable pedigree he has is northern dancer. He’s super sweet and loves this mare he’s got as a pasture mate, he’s also got half a pecker.




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This is the closest I could find as he’s a grey Roan (he looks fleabitten cause of this)

This is Bree aka Lascaux Mambrino aka the perfect pony. He came to me as a possible euthanasia due to behavior issues. Turns out it was undiagnosed pain (that was not identified despite a lot of diagnostics by his previous owner). He will never be completely sound, but he gets around just fine. Bree is a pony that is incredibly willing and does anything that is asked of him. He is solid and safe and about as close to bomb proof as you can get. Just the other day, I was in the area next to the arena and accidently knocked something off the wall, which dropped onto the back edge of a jog cart, which in turn caused the cart to flip over and almost hit Bree in the face with the shafts. Bree blinked at the cart, didn't move a muscle thus protecting the kid that was grooming him on the opposite side and looked up at me to ask for cookies. I hitched him up for the first time in years at a horse show a few weeks ago and he went into the show ring like I had been working him every day. Nothing phases the perfect pony.
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Bree is a 13hh Welsh section C pony of cob type. He is palomino with heavy pigmentation along his abdomen and his inner legs are almost black (where you can see it past the white) along with many dark bend or spots. So I call him sooty though he isn't the classic sooty pattern of over the topline. He also has huge splash like white markings and belly spots. So there isn't a horse in the game that really accurately expresses his pattern, but I found a sooty splash palomino cob pony.


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This is Aster - a draft mix/grade horse that I broke to saddle and turned into a pretty decent trail horse. Unfortunately, I moved away from her owners, so she has passed out of my life, but she turned into a handy mare with a heart of gold. The one picture includes babyChateau with her; the other is how she used to like to sleep. (Can't figure out how to embed them, sorry.)

https://ibb.co/n34hvfK
https://ibb.co/ZfH5Nqk


Game Match:

DC ex Boudica

I picked a lighter draft since Aster was a cross, and a foundation since she was unknown breeding. Height is about right. While Aster's pangare was pretty heavy, we really only have one option for expression in the game, but I did pick a PP versus a Pp. And, of course, to me she was Exceptionally Perfect.

I wasn't going to do this at first but I can't help myself, seeing everybodys heart horse is making me miss my boy. I had to sell him a few years ago because I went off to college and we didn't have any other place to keep him. His name is Ozzy, he was so quirky. I bought him when I was 12 wiht my own money I saved up and trained him for almost 4 years before selling him as a hunter horse (he LOVED to jump). He's a simple chestnut/sorrel gelding with a blaze, he was a Quarter Horse but he's sprinting bred so he was slender like a TB

https://ibb.co/GCkdfcn

Here we are at his first show, we rode a training level dressage test and came 4th out of 8, not bad for a greenie that was a bit crazy haha:
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(Hopefully those links work)

Heres a horse I feel resembles him, he had no socks and a lighter mane and tail, his coat was super shiny and coppery in the summer


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Loving all these entries! This will close tomorrow :)

Alright, it took some digging to find pictures because I had to sell all my horses when my parents moved to town five years ago, but here's Snickers!
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He was my first horse, and I learned to ride on him when I was still little enough that that was logical. He's a 34 inch miniature horse, and he's super patient and understanding with kids and thoroughly expects adults to know better! I got him when I was six, and by the time I was in high school, he would give me this look whenever I did anything dumb like "I swear I taught you better than this". He was probably what you all call a heart horse, and I do miss him. I'm not too worried though, because I know he went to great people and the last time I saw him, he was patiently standing around and eating hay while a six year old girl played with his feet.

So I think he was a black that just sun faded a lot, but the blacks on here are so solid black that I found a little liver chestnut cob instead.

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Okay, based on a random generator here are the 3 prize winners!

1) @TreeFern
2) @paradoxphoenix
3) @FlyingTurkeyFarm

I will add the 3 of you to my buddy chat to put a horse up for the winning prize amounts. You can contact @ConfluenceStable regarding the GMT prizes. :D Thanks so much for participating!

You’re very welcome! :)

Congratulations to the winners. :)

It was fun reading everyone’s stories. :) I’ll try and find something to send to my favorite entries as well. ;)

Great job on a really creative and fun contest/game, Sharayah Stables!

My life has been so crazy that I forgot to check to back till now! Thank you so much!