French-Italian Spotted Draft - Community Horse Breed

WELCOME TO

INTRODUCTION

For once, I didn't want to simply remake a real life horse breed, I wanted to do something brand new. A new horse breed.

To make it, I decided to involve my community. How did we do it? Well, with a 3 part event in my Discord server, my community chose starting and added bloodlines and then the name of the breed. I then worked on creating a model and custom coats.

That's how we developed the French-Italian Spotted Draft!

You can read more about this newly developed breed below.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND IN THIS MOD

This mod is divided in sections (or packs) following the patterns, dilutions and modifiers that can be found in the breed.

The "Leopard Spotting" also constitutes a macro-section which can be downloaded all together in Miscellaneous.

The files have been numbered to follow the order of the sections in the images.

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THE FRENCH-ITALIAN SPOTTED DRAFT

General Description

The French-Italian Spotted Draft is a recently developed breed. Combining the strenght of the Ardennais, the ancient Etruscan blood of the Maremmano and the colors of the Knabstrupper a powerful and elegant horse is created. This horse is extremely resilient and versatile and is particularly appreciated for its Spotted coats. Breeders aimed at a light draft horse that looked strong but could adapt at any kind of task and that could be easy to keep. With this in mind, many Ardennes mares were bred to Maremmano stallions. After the first generation of foals was born, Knabstrupper blood was added for the sole reasons of bringing the spotted color into the breed and giving it a more "warmblood" conformation. The breed was immediately recognized as "French-Italian Spotted Draft" ("French" due to the Ardennes' blood, "Italian" because of the Maremmano's and "Spotted" because of the Knabstrup's).

Physical Conformation

It generally stands between 1. 55 and 1. 65 meters (15,2-16,2 h) at the withers and weights around 500 kilograms.

Conformation is a perfect balance of warmblood and draft body types: the body is muscular and lean, the legs are short but powerful, ending in well-built, sturdy hooves. It always sh