It’s everyone’s favorite time of year again – foaling season! And of course, as has become tradition around here by now, that means it’s time for our annual Willow Tree Warmbloods Baby Bets contest. Baby horses plus free stuff, it doesn’t get any better than that.
First off, the prize package. This year it’s bigger and more awesome than ever! The winner of this year’s Baby Bets contest will receive:
- a $50 Riding Warehouse gift card
- Willow Tree Warmbloods swag – pick between either a WTW hat or a WTW saddle pad, style and color of your choice.
- some Flix 100% flax seed horse treats, generously donated by Horse Guard
- a bag of Michelle’s new favorite thing (that she first physically shoved me out of the way to obtain and now continuously orders online): a big ass bag of lucky charms marshmallows.
Money, swag, and treats for you and your pony!
Again this year there are only two expected foals, and from two very different ends of the spectrum. Lissa, a Grand Prix jumper mare, is in foal to GP jumper stallion Catoki, and sportpony mare Stormie is in foal to German Riding Pony stallion Nuno!
We’ll do the rules just like last year. Basically all you have to do is exercise those psychic powers and comment here with your guesses for the following, for each foal:
- Foaling Date
- Foaling Time (doesn’t have to be to the minute accurate, just to the hour is fine – ie 2AM. If it happens in the 2AM hour, you get the points.)
- Gender
- Color
- Face Markings
- Leg Markings (again doesn’t have to be specific – “one sock”, “none”, “four socks”, etc will work)
So your submission should look something like this:
Lissa: 4/2 3AM bay filly with a stripe and two socks
Stormie: 5/21 8PM black colt with a blaze and 3 socks
But filled in with your actual guesses, of course. 😉 Everything you guess correctly will earn points. 10 points each for foaling date and time, and then 5 points each for gender, color, face markings, and leg markings… each foal can potentially net you up to 40 points. So even if you get a few things wrong, there are still ways to rack up some serious points. If there are any ties, I’ll put them all in a hat and get Michelle to pick a winner.
Submit your entries via a comment here on this post or you can message them to me on the blog’s facebook page. Just make sure you leave a link or an email address so I can contact you if you win! Easy peasy.
The “Due dates” I’ve listed below are based on the average 340 days gestation, but keep in mind that normal gestation can be anywhere from 320ish to 360ish. I’ve included pictures of both combinations and whatever info is important so you can make your best guesses.
LISSA x CATOKI
Lissa is a bay mare, and we know she carries a red gene since her first foal was chestnut. Catoki is also bay, but he too has sired chestnut offspring therefore has a red gene. That gives us roughly 75% chance for bay or black, 25% chance for chestnut. Lissa has 3 small socks and Catoki has a big star/snip and 3 socks. Her “due date” is 4/6.
STORMIE x NUNO
This one is a lot more challenging, color wise. Stormie is gray but appeared to have been born grulla, and has maybe a face marking. Nuno is black with a blaze and a sock. If our guesses at their color genetics are correct, that gives us 25% chance of grulla, 25% chance of black, 25% chance of grulla that turns gray, and 25% chance of black that turns gray. Since we may or may not know for a while if the foal will turn gray, I’ll just take a base color here for a guess. So black or grulla, we think – but you don’t have to take my word for it. “Due date” is 5/25, and this is Stormie’s first foal.
I’ll leave entries open through 3/18, that gives you a week to get your guesses in! The contest winner will be revealed after the last foal is born. Obviously I have no idea exactly when that’ll be, hopefully by the end of May, so you’ll just have to stay tuned.
Who’s really excited for baby pony pictures?
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Where is Sadie?!
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She slipped her Diarado pregnancy at some point early on, so Michelle decided to just leave her open and start early this year.
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SAD FACE! I was secretly hoping that was going to a boy baby and I could buy it. 😉
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I think she’s breeding her to Lordanos this year, so there’s that. 😉
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Ok. Mine. 🙂
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Lissa: 4/1 at 9PM bay colt with two socks and a star
Stormie: 5/14 at 5AM black filly with one sock and a stripe
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Lissa – 4/10, 1am, bay colt with a stripe and 2 socks.
Stormie – 5/20, 11pm, black colt with no white.
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OMG A STORMIE BABY! I freaking adore that little pony.
Lissa, April 11, 9am, bay colt with star and 2 socks
Stormie, June 3, 1am, black filly with blaze and 2 socks
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Ok here goes…
Lissa: 4/1, 3am, bay, filly, star, 2 socks
Stormie: 5/28, 4pm, black, colt, star and snip, 1 sock
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Lissa: 3/29 3am bay colt 3 socks with a star
Stormie: 6/2 4am black filly 1 sock with a blaze
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Well my only take away from this is wondering if I can convince my husband that I need that Catoki baby. He’s only my most favorite stallion in existence…
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I’m gonna try this year (and be miserably off base, I’m sure!).
Lissa: 4/8, 11 PM, bay colt, star, 3 socks
Stormie: 5/30, 2 AM, black filly, stripe, small sock
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Lissa: 4/12 4PM, chestnut filly, 3 socks with a blaze
Stormie: 5/15 4AM, black colt, no leg markings, star
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Lissa: 4/7 at 2PM, bay colt, star, two socks
Stormie: 5/23 at 1AM, grulla filly, no face markings, one sock
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Lissa – April 10th – 11PM – Filly – Chestnut – Snip – Two Socks
Stormie – June 2nd – 5AM – Colt – Grullo – Stripe
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My guesses:
Lissa’s foal will be a 10PM April 1st bay filly with a big snip and three socks. (Am I making this guess soley because I want this exact baby? POSSIBLY.)
Stormie’s foal will be 4AM June 12th black colt with a stripe and a stocking.
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Lissa: colt, chestnut, 4/6, at 1 am with a star and 2 socks
Stormie: filly; black, 5/27, at 3 am with stripe and 1 sock
There’s my guesses! I’m totally rooting for Lissa’s due date cause that’s also my bday and that’d be awesome lololol
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I’m going to jump in on the fun despite being overseas haha.
Lissa: 4/1, 4AM bay colt with stripe and 2 socks
Stormie: 5/13 at 3AM black filly with a sock and 1 star
Did I do those dates the right way?
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Lissa: 8/4 ,2am, bay colt, star, 1 sock
Stormie: 5/29, 4am, black filly, stripe, 2 socks
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Lissa: 4/1 3AM bay filly, 3 socks, stripe
Stormie: 5/3 11AM grulla filly, star
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Lissa: 4/8 at 6 am bay filly 4 small socks
Stormie: 5/27 at 11 pm black filly with a stripe
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Lissa – 4/1 at 8 am chestnut colt with snip and 2 socks
Stormie – 6/6 at 7 am black/charcoal colt with skinny blaze and no socks.
My email is Susie@fuzzells.com
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Lissa:
Date: 4/4 – (come on Lissa that’s my bday!)
Time: 8pm
Gender: colt
Color: chestnut
Face: star
Legs: two socks
Stormie:
Date: 5/30
Time: 4am
Gender: filly
Color: black
Face: blaze
Legs: none
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LISSA 4/2 at 6AM BAY COLT with STAR and 3 SOCKS
STORMIE 5/30 at 5PM GRULLA FILLY with BLAZE and 2 SOCKS
I am so excited to see baby pictures and announcements! Put me on the waitlist for a Stormie baby (especially if it is sired by Usandro!). Thanks for the fun contest.
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Lissa: 4/4 at 1AM, bay colt with a star and 3 socks
Stormie: 6/1 at 4AM black colt with a stripe and 1 sock
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Yes! My favorite contest of the entire internet. I almost won last year except the whole gender reveal thing went awry, haha. Let there be (actual) fillies this year!
Lissa: 4/10 at 10pm, bay filly with a big star and three socks
Stormie: 5/23 at 6am, black filly with a blaze and two socks
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Lissa: 4/6 5AM chestnut colt star and 2 socks
Stormie: 5/15 2AM grulla filly with 1 sock
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Lissa: 3/30 10 pm Chestnut filly star 2 hind sox
Stormie: 6/2 5 am Black colt star hind sock
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