From the howrse blog:
"The saddle cloth will become compulsory in order to enter competitions, in addition to the saddle and the bridle. Yet the bonnet and the leg wraps will be optional that way you don’t have to buy too many items of tacks for every single horse."

Hang on tight, folks. I think we are going girthless (:

I actually knew someone once who put. Just the saddle pad on the horse and got on. Keep in mind that it was a thicker heavier western one. She tried to canter, and she went right to the ground!

What you said about girthless reminded me of that .

The one that seems nice is the KWPN coat

I love it that the new connemaras look slightly peeved. Completely suits the mare I used to ride.

I think the worst is the Quarter Horse. I personally think that the nokota looks more like a QH! Minus the spots, of course. This is realy depressing. I think that they should postpone the change, and take a look at some of the criticism and fix it.

Generally speaking, looking back to the earlier stage of Howrse's graphic, it is evoloving, only slightly. We are starting to see more breed characteristics in them, compare with the first version.

In my opinon, the Thoroughbred and the Knabstrupper are decent enough, but the Friesian and the Standardbred are a let-down.

Kind of looks like they just threw the tail on the Friesian And I really, really hope they change up the stock horse breeds or I'm going to need like 50 GAs

Ha ha! I though I was the only one who noticed

For me, the worst is the Shetlands. I think they look so cute right now, but I hate the new coat.

Where do you find the new howrse coat pics?

Lol I had to go back and check because I couldn't actually remember if they had girths

But I found a screen-cap I took ^_^

*Cringes*

I breed Spanish horses here, so I'm stuck seeing the Spanish horse coats every day. And wow... I love the current coats (while not wholly representative of the breed, they don't make me cringe like the suggested ones do). The neck just doesn't seem in proportion with the head... And the new Tekes (which I also breed, but on US server) have some awfully strange front legs. -shivers- Just my opinion.

Good god, what IS that?!
It looks like zombie seaweed o.O
D:

Is that....a demon horse? Its eyes are red, and its teeth are bared. It kind of reminds me of a zombie x piece of seaweed.

We just posted at almost the same time, and called it the same thing *backs away slowly*

Does anyone have all the coat colours for the Quarter Pony?

If Howrse ends up using that coat I know what I will be breeding to no end.

What is the world is that thing?!

Kelpie! That is awesome
"The kelpie is a supernatural water horse from Celtic folklore that is believed to haunt the rivers and lochs of Scotland and Ireland; the name may be from Scottish Gaelic cailpeach or colpach "heifer, colt". The water horse is a common form of the kelpie, said to lure humans into the water to drown them. "

So a sort of evil horse rather fitting.

Here's the URL for the coat Jedainokishi -

http://gaia.preprod.equideow.com/media/equideo/image/chevauxv4/adulte/poney-leger/normal/300/pie-tb-plm.png?8/img

Just change the colour code to the one you want to see. The colour code is the last part fo the URL before the .png... In this case pie-tb-plm which is palomino tobiano. nr = black, bai = bay, alz = chestnut, etc. You can look at the url of other horse coats to get more colour codes

@Unicorn99: Ooh interesting... Is it perhaps another horror themed divine just like the Osiris from last Halloween? What does it's '?' info say I wonder.

Hmm, and that is what Howrse calls "The drawing must not be offensive for young players."

Yeah, right

Thank you so much Neferka!!

Anyone post all colors for Connie or Morgan ?

I don't see what's offensive about a horse made of seaweed

More the fact it just looks scary