We found our third wild horse that paces instead of canters, a palomino named Rio! Rio had such long legs that his pace looked especially ground-covering:
While handsome, his stat total and ornery personality were strong counts against him. Teatime could breathe a sigh of relief. She's still by far our favorite of the 3 pacers.
Dipsy continues to charm us too. We were tasked with delivering a letter to a ranch that took quite a while to get to, thanks to having to circle around some steep mountainous terrain. When MicroMini and I finally got there, we discovered that the ranch house, which we needed to get close to in order to deliver the letter, was totally enclosed inside an extra tall fence. The gate was shut and locked, so there was no way in but over. I asked MicroMini to try jumping it several times, but the little guy couldn't make it. So, I tacked up Dipsy, thinking, hey, he's tall and has the highest jump power of any of our horses. Maybe he can do it. I backed him way up, sprinted him towards the fence, and asked for maximum jump power.
Mission accomplished! Well done, Dipsy!
On a different mail delivery mission, Bethany visited the destination ranch's horses out on display. One of them was a young, 15-hand brindle purebred Andalusian, so just for fun, Bethany compared Starfleet to her.
Wow, I think we know which breed of Baroque horse Starfleet most resembles! (And also, 17 hands is big!)
This happened sometime during that visit too. Whoops. XD
This wild horse probably made Blitzen sweat.
Moonwind is an inch taller than Blitzen, making her our new tallest wild ever, and she is a really cool color: pearl grulla pintaloosa.
Her stats and personality were not so great. Since it was Lily who caught her, she quickly sold her before Felicity, our biggest appaloosa fan, could see her. Sorry, Felicity! Lily assures us she was not gaited and did not seem significantly bigger than Blitzen.
We also found a few small ponies, including this really cute one named Mid Century Modern:
Talk about a low rider. :^)
Last night, Bethany and Lily suggested we watch a romantic movie of some sort, since it was Valentine's Day. Felicity wasn't feeling it, so we ended up watching vet shows on Nat Geo Wild and taking turns delivering letters on HI3 instead. We found quite a few wilds in the rainbow eucalyptus forest, a sub-biome of the bamboo forest. Here's what the BBB has to say about them:
This pony is a great example: she ticks all the boxes except for frame overo. She even has frontal bosses, or "horns." (They made HI2's Datongs extra cute.)
Hers are right on the edges of her big star.
She also carries her ears splayed out to the sides, which I think is adorable.
Her genetic stat total is well over 900, and her personality is quite nice. But of course, there's still the under-saddle test to pass.
Despite being only 14 hands tall and being very narrow-barreled, Pepsi does not look funny on her. Yay!
She has a totally different look than any of our other equines, and while it's not elegant or feminine, we like it. We had her breed determined, and the result was, puzzlingly, Grade Hot-blooded Horse. She doesn't really look like any of the randomly-generated Grade Hot-Bloods we brought up in the BBB, nor does she seem to fit the description.
Oh well!
So now, assuming we can get everybody to accept that Talvi was a bonus and that Teatime is our January horse, we are left with Dipsy, MicroMini, Blitzen, and now Hogan as possible February horses, and the month is only half over. Why did you all have to come to us so close together? :^/ I sure wish we could keep them all!
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