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Anyone who has watched The Wizard of OZ knows about the horse of a different color. The horse in the movie does change colors many times however it begins its transition from white to this lovely shade of purple. You can google the exact clip simply by looking up "Wizard of OZ horse of a different color" to see the grand entrance they make through the green land of OZ.

I think this link will take you to the horse I replicated

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/41fefae1-f3d7-422f-ac57-6b91035b9273


HorseOfA Different Color

Withdrawing..

I decided to go with one of my favorite's (as seen with my stable tattoo lol) and one of the most recongnized creatures in Greek Mythology, the beautiful Pegasus! I found the closest horse to him that I had bred, wish I could put wings on him too! Pegasus is described as a mythical immortal winged horse and is usually depicted as being a pure white wild stallion. He is said to be a very elegant steed with beautiful feathered wings, so I chose a light boned horse and I used the Grey color to give the almost pure white look! And a full mane to hopefully give a untamed or wild impression while still being graceful. I would think Pegasus to be a rather big/tall stud too, unfortunately I didn't have any taller horse. He is also a constellation, so I have chosen a stary background for my boy and I even included the charmed golden bridle that the hero Bellerophon (which he had gotten from the goddess Athena ) used to tame Pegasus in the myth!


2B Pegasus


Also did you know that Pegasus was the winged horses actual name in mythology and that we now call All winged horses Pegasus because of him? He was also born from the blood of Medusa after the hero Pursues beheaded her and is an offspring of the god Poseidon as well! :)

I’ve always enjoyed older tv shows. One of my favorites is Mister Ed, so I decided to make him. I would have made one of my own boy, as he is definitely my favorite, but that would have required more GMTs than I can put into it right now.


Bamboo MrE

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo_Harvester

Wow, some really great renditions everyone! @KhaosAcres that is a lovely horse, hopefully it all works out getting another one. By the way, if you want to be in the running for the top 3 prizes (completely optional), I will need a real life picture of the horse you are replicating, or if that's not possible, you're welcome to enter another! @OscarWildin great work with Eddie, that's awesome that you've been together for 15 years! @HorseAngel and of course Pegasus is a great choice as well, the mythology is really cool and I like the idea with the starry background! I've sent you all a transfer for entering.

I'm going to get to everyone else in the next couple days here, thanks for your patience!

Question: I managed to roll up a horse that's pretty similar to the one I want to replicate, except for the face white. If I end up rolling a closer look-alike during the month, may I withdraw my entry in favor of the new horse?

Cool, in that case, for now, I present to you Sapphire, a dark chestnut Belgian Warmblood who used to be ridden by McLain Ward. Sapphire was an amazing athlete but unfortunately colicked and was put down in 2014. She had four foals (two by embryo transfer) and was cloned twice.


McLain Wards Sapphire

I used an exceptionally perfect base (because she is!). Winner's circle background, because she spent a lot of time there. The real Sapphire had a blaze which was *just* wide enough to be seen in profile. She used various tack set-ups throughout her career, but I modeled her off this picture where she is in a Pelham (ridden with a converter, so I used just the snaffle rein), including her blue trim saddle pad.
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-us-show-jumper-mclain-ward-and-his-horse-sapphire-take-an-obstacle-53961628.html

I Truely do miss her. I have part of her tail hair in my room

No worries! Also thanks to @ChateauAlbere for entering, love the photo of Sapphire in action, definitely an "exceptionally perfect" horse, good call! I've transferred you the hbs for entering.

I decided to create one of my own horses Flint, he was the second horse I’ve ever started and is very special to me. His only marking is a big quirky star on his forehead. He’s also 7 and 15.2HH.


Zz Flintlock

I found duplicating everything to be difficult since I rarely ride him in any form of brindal. Mostly I use a rope halter and lead or a bosal, which aren’t in any tack packs. I also don’t use typical split reins, I use loop reins or a lead rope. Here’s a pic of our first solo ride of the season.

Hey folks, @Ammit has very graciously donated an extra 100,000 hbs towards the prize pool here, so I'm going to add 35,000hbs to each of the three grand prizes, moving them up from 50,000 to 85,000. I'm really enjoying all of the entries so far!

And just a reminder if you are entering as a stable with a showing bonus under 10,000 per day please remember to put that in your post so I don't forget to consider you for that category.

Whinny Gotta Lotta Dots
this is the horse I created! It is my friends horse and she is so nice!
https://www.jconline.com/picture-gallery/news/2020/07/24/horse-judging-2020-tippecanoe-county-4-h-fair/5506061002/
there is a picture on this page of Madison (Maddie) Wright. She is the third one down and it is her horse I re-created!

Thank you!

Thanks for entering @SandyCreekAcres she looks like a lovely horse and that's really awesome that she was able to be involved in a therapeutic riding program, definitely takes an extraordinary horse and you really captured her spirit really well here! Sent along the hbs for entering.

This is so fun!

Some breeding seasons back I kept this guy because he reminded me of my former horse from years ago. Or at least halfway. My horse Flash was a 15.3 Arabian gelding with a big blaze, three stockings and a small white spot on the third leg. At the time I was a bit suspicious because I had always heard the simplified version of genetics: Arabs don’t have spots. Or roan. But his white knee spot didn’t seem like a scar. Now having played online horse genetic games, I wonder if he had sabino2. And I can also recognize that he had light rabicano on his ribs (which were more prominent when he shed out in summer).

Flash:

https://imgur.com/gallery/4GbAMhU


Half Flash

And note, I’m sitting comfortably at a daily showing bonus of 3,097 :)

Also just a reminder to everyone, the contest is closing soon - I'm going to officially stop taking entries tomorrow (Mar. 1st) at 10pm game time. Also, if you want to be considered for the under 10,000hbs show bonus category please remember to include that info in your entry as well.

Alright, thanks everyone for participating!

I really enjoyed learning about all of the horses that everyone chose, we had a really great mix of wonderful real-life friends and champions and of course some fictional favourites too. If anyone missed out on getting the hbs from me for participating, please let me know, I'm glad I was able to give everyone a small prize because, wow... it has been hard to decide on the grand prizes.

In the under 10,000 showing bonus category, I honestly couldn't decide. @Kaysa did such a great job with the blaze and socks for Flash and even chose the same mane and tail style as the photo. @HorseCrazyByNature did a really fantastic job making the bridle and saddle match the picture, along with doing great work with the amount and size of spots to match Winnie. So I'm going to split the prize and give you each 42,500hbs.

In the most faithful representation category, this was really tricky. So many people did a really fantastic job. I decided to give the 85,000hbs prize to @ChateauAlbere for Sapphire because of the truly impressive attention to detail picking out the right colour horse, the exact style bridle, same colour blanket, saddle pad, saddle... I could go on. Really liked the thought behind putting her in the winner's circle and being "exceptionally perfect." I'm also going to give a discretionary runner-up prize of 20,000hbs to @SandyCreekAcres for Rosie again for some very impressive attention to detail with the height, bone weight, lovely white socks and really great selection of the same fenced background.

In the most creative representation category, I also had a hard time (kind of a running theme). Ultimately I decided to give the 85,000hbs prize to @HorseAngel for the very tricky prospect of doing Pegasus. Despite not having wings to work with, I really liked all the thought that went into it, from using a light boned horse (to make flying easier), the golden bridle, and the starry night sky with a tie-in to the constellation Pegasus. I'm also going to give a discretionary runner-up prize of 20,000hbs to @TennesseeRain for the Horse of a Different Colour which was another tricky challenge done very well. Fantastic colour matching and I'm guessing you picked the green hedge background to give an Emerald City vibe.

In order to claim your prize, please send me a message with a horse for sale for the amount that you've won. I definitely don't have the hbs to do this all via direct transfers!

Thank you so much, CrowsnestRidge! This is quite a surprise. I had a lot of fun trying to get a Rosie clone and really enjoyed seeing what other players had accomplished.

I've put a promising young gelding up for you in one of my Horse Exchanges.
https://www.huntandjump.com/buddy_chat.php?chatid=36

Thanks so much @crowsnestridge


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