flower fight?

Rewards

At the end of the contest, the players who have thrown the most gifts will receive:

1st: Greyfell
2nd to 10th: 1 x Nyx Pack
11th to 50th: 1 x Horn of Plenty
51th to 100th: 1 x Achilles' Heel
101th to 30000th: 1 x Medusa's Blood

Arabians are Best

The Percheron - it will be released as a Prize in an upcoming promotion called the Maze.

It's the Shire - but it is unknown just when/how this breed will be added to the game.

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.

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*

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

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:

So it sounds like a promo may start tomorrow? Will the maze or the flower fight come first?

A. The Maze and Flower FIght both start tomorrrow and run side by side

B. The Maze starts tomorrow - the Flower fight happens later in the week

C. The Flower Fight starts tomorrow - the Maze happens next week

Considering the recent minor updates (Draft Horse added as a species in searches, regular horses now called Riding Horses, etc) - I'd say that A or B are the more likely options (as the Maze is how we're getting the first Draft)