Percherons will be released through the maze promo some time this month. The second breed is comfirmed to be shires, but as far as I know, we don't know when or how they will be released. There are pictures a while back if you want to see them.

Red Line is the shortest in terms of how many spaces you must move to reach the end
White Dot is longer, but allows more moves as you find more treats

And here's the untouched one if you want to find your own path:

Draught Horses:
A new type of horse is making their long awaited entrance on Howrse; the draught breeds.

The first horse from this new “species” is the Percheron!

Draught horses can:
- Receive the same items than Donkeys. *Though images of Draft Pegasus do exist - they can not be given Medusa's Blood at present time...this might change in the future*

The special coats of the following items will use the same image as horses and ponies:
- 5th Element
- Bewitched Pumpkin
- Seal of the Apocalypse

Draught horses can be equipped and take part in the same competitions as riding horses and ponies. The equipment is visible on the horse’s illustration. *see image*
*this means that they can compete in comps. with regular horses/ponies, and they also have their own 'breed only' comps. like any other horse*

Like donkeys the draught horses:
- Can only be bred with another draught horse
- Cannot breed more than three times during his life
- When a draught horse is put up for sale any issued but unused coverings are cancelled

Weight and feed
The need for fodder is larger with a draught horse than with other species
The requirement for oats works the same way as for horses or ponies.

Missions:
When a draught horse takes part in a mission:
He earns twice as many skills as a regular horse
His owner earns twice as many equus

The Equestrian Centre earns twice as many resources

The mission button on their page is slightly modified to show it’s doubled compared to other horses.

You can search draught horses in breeding farms, sales and in public coverings.
When you are looking for a covering for your draught mare the setting is automatically set to search for a draught horse of the same breed in exactly the same way as donkeys.

In the other direction, when looking for a covering for a classical riding breed you cannot select the setting to search for a draught horse.

Rankings:
The draught horses are ranked as any other type of specie.
Their ranking goes between the ones for ponies and donkeys.

Creative Space:
We add the opportunity of proposing creations for draught horses in the Creative Space.
On the Black pearl page the sentence “Draught horses aren’t accepted” is removed.
Trophies *At present time, it is not known when Draft coats will be allowed*

The Percheron is added to the breed and coats for all breed trophies as well as creating a trophy in Talented Breeder => breeds.

The species is also added to the species trophy, species Golden Apple and retired Golden Apple trophies.

Species riding horse

To avoid unnecessary confusion the species “horse” is renamed “riding horse”. *and Drafts will be called 'Draft Horse'

This terminology is used on the horse’s page under species, in the horse’s breed description, in the search drop down menus, in the sales, when looking for coverings, in your breeding farms, trophies, species, in the rankings …

Help section
An entry is added for draught horses in the section 4.1 – breeding.
In the EC help under missions in section 2.3 an entry is also added

Best Regards
The Howrse Team

Images of a Percheron's page and the Breed's Page;





*bonus - Percheron Foal*


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Also - we have found images of the Second Draft Breed, the Shire. However - other than these three images showing the three colors it comes in. Beyond this - Nothing else is known about this particular Draft at this time:

Does anyone know if the shires will come in more than 3 colours?

Howrse usually conforms to Stud Book registries when it comes to what colors they allow Horses to be (though there are some exceptions here and there with breeds)

Since the books only allow Black, Bay, and Grey (the three images we have) the chance is high these will be the only colors they come in. Though something to note is that Chestnut Stallions are not allowed in the UK stud books, but they are in the US books...and Roan Mares and Geldings are acceptable - so while no image has been found yet*, these are two other possible colors that might be added.

If anyone wants to try playing around with URLs to find colors...here's the code for the Shire picture, Just change the last part of the URL (as that is what controls the color). Here's two examples - one for each of the other colors I mentioned:

http://gaia.preprod.equideow.com/media/equideo/image/chevaux/adulte/shire/normal/300/rn.png <-Roan code

http://gaia.preprod.equideow.com/media/equideo/image/chevaux/adulte/shire/normal/300/alz.png <-Chestnut code

Lovely Blue is one of the Horses of the Rainbow.

Lovely Blue is a mare and can breed once in her lifetime with Shiny Yellow in order to give birth to Forest Green.
She gives you one diamond every Friday (after the daily update), provided you logged in at least once over the previous 3 days.

Once you own all the 7 Horses of the Rainbow, you can obtain Secret Rainbow.
Game: 1 x diamond every Friday
VIP: Earn double morale when grooming your horses on Friday

This mare cannot be sold.

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Foal
Adult

Forest Green is one of the Horses of the Rainbow.

He is the son of Lovely Blue and Shiny Yellow.

He gives you one diamond every Thursday (after the daily update), provided you logged in at least once over the previous 3 days.

Once you own all the 7 Horses of the Rainbow, you can obtain Secret Rainbow.
Game: 1 x diamond every Thursday
VIP: Energy consumption when riding in a forest on Thursdays is halved

This horse cannot be sold.

When in the Maze - if you find a Treat space, you get 3 Treats - which gives you 3 free moves (as 1 treat = 1 move).

Which route will get me to Lovely Blue the fastest?

maze