Please join us in Carriage Trade for a unique runway event featuring the ponies of Carriage Trade strutting their stuff on our special cat walk designed just for our horses and ponies.
They will be showcasing 18 looks from the Tack Room @ Carriage Trade. Show starts promptly at 12 noon PT, and lasts about 45 minutes. Join us for a rollicking good time. Look book and show special available.
Here’s an advance preview of the ponies, prepping for their big moment:
Crack team of 4 black Shires pulling the Ale Wagon through the bucolic Carriage Trade country side. Leaders are Armanni and Leo, Wheelers are Tyr and Ko, team driven by Lillie Vella.
Calm and peaceful shores reflect the quiet village of Land's End in Carriage Trade's Northampton
As part of the overhaul of Carriage Trade’s Northampton region, we put the original Sheffield estate under the bulldozer and allowed the land developers to go to town – literally.
The result: Land’s End, which includes 6 small cottages and a roleplay area, Coophaven. The cottages are available for rent; each includes a radio system and locking doors and a small plot of space as well as carefully manicured landscaping right on Main Street.
What could be more delightful than quaint brick cottages in the bucolic Carriage Trade countryside?
Of course, the gentle sea breezes help cool the tiny village and it’s location on the southern edge of the newly redesigned cross-country course make it a delight for the equestrian.
Coophaven includes NPC chickens which interact in different ways. Check them out so you know where they are, come the time!
Main Street in Carriage Trade's Land's End Village in Northampton
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11:00 am – 7:00 pm Country Faire
Join us for a romping old-fashioned Country Faire with games of Skill and Luck; Carousel and Hay Rides, and even an old-fashioned country circus!
We have carnival rides, hay rides, games of skill, lots of prizes, a curiously moving picture device, gypsy fortune telling, and a range of events all day long!
11:00 am, Line up in the market to open the Faire with a rousing parade. Pull a circus wagon, a hay ride, or prance in formation, there will be lots of opportunities to join the parade! and who doesn’t love a parade!
Then at 12:30 pm, engage in a version of horsie musical chairs with a cake walk in the Carriage House Yard! Prizes for the winners (they get to pick their cake – filled with goodies!).
At 3:00 pm, get gussied up in a costume and swing by the Big Top. Enter as a horse or a human; the rules are simple: you must obviously be a horse, or obviously a human, and wearing a costume. NO: complete avatars masquerading as a costume, and there’s no theme. You just must obviously be a horse…wearing a costume. Or a human, wearing a costume. Trot on by, slap the board to sign up, and let the voting commence! $500L for best costume in each category, plus ribbons for participants and top 3 winners in each category!
At 5:00 pm, all you racers out there start your hooves! We’ll be racing melon carts through the streets of Carriage Trade. We recommend you practice in advance; the course is laid out (it’s figure-8). Of course, expect the unexpected that day…you never know when a rock, cat or bump will appear! Bring your own melon cart, part of the race is filling your cart before the start. Winners are determined by fastest time with the most melons left in their cart. We’ll be running in heats of 4, with the best of each heat competing against each other till a winner is chosen. Trophy for the winner, ribbons for all participants.
Finally, at 6:00 pm, join us in the Big Top for the ultimate equestrian circus! Watch the daring do of ponies on swings and the majesty of horses dancing and prancing in Liberty acts. See the beautiful bareback riders and their gorgeous steeds perform! Grab a balloon or a pair of stilts and join the festivities! Don’t forget the cotton candy, popcorn or ice cream carts!
Join us on Saturday, July 2nd, 2011 from 11:00 am – 7:00 pm SLT.
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New this week in the Tack Room @ Carriage Trade: single and pair light horse buggies, drafter caleches, and light horse Royale carriages.
Single Light Horse Buggy Shown in Black
The buggies are all finely detailed with built-in reins, functional touch on-off side lamps, and shafts. The buggy has been carefully tuned and handles very well with any light horse, even the most fractious. It will carry a driver and a passenger, and a single horse to pull it. The buggies are available in Black, Grey, Cobalt, Pine, Wine, and Persimmon.
The Pair Light Horse Buggy shown in Cobalt
The pair buggies are all finely detailed with built-in reins, functional touch on-off side lamps, and shafts. The buggy has been carefully tuned and handles very well with any pair of light horses. It will carry a driver and a passenger, and a pair of horses to pull it. The buggies are available in Black, Grey, Cobalt, Pine, Wine, and Persimmon.
The Pair Drafter Caleche Shown in Persimmon
The Drafter Pair Caleche carriage includes built-in reins, functional touch on-off side lamps, and shafts. The caleche is a stylish and elegant vehicle, and handles well with any pair of great horses. It carries a driver plus two passengers and a pair of horses to pull it. The Caleches are available in Black, Grey, Cobalt, Pine, Wine, and Persimmon.
The Single Light Horse Royale Carriage in Black
The Single Light Horse Royale carriage includes built-in reins, functional touch on-off side lamps, and shafts. The Royale is a stylish vehicle suitable for taxi and livery service with easy in and out access for the passengers. It is well-balanced and handles well with any light horse. It carries a driver plus two passengers and a single horse to pull it. The Royale carriages are available in Black, Grey, Cobalt, Pine, Wine, and Persimmon.
Gorgeous Hay Wagons for both Team and Single Driving
We have new hay wagons for the draft horses in both singleton and team configurations in a vendor marked ‘new’ in the Tack Room.
The hay wagons come in Light Wood, Dark Wood, and Weathered Wood, and feature a mound of hat plus a pitchfork in the back! Hay wagons seat two people (the driver plus a passenger). Both versions have been carefully balanced to reduce tipping and rocking.
The team and singleton versions are sold each sold separately.
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A Stylish and elegant cart for all your driving needs
New In the Tack Room @ Carriage Trade: A drafter-sized Step-In Cart in both Singleton and Team orientation.
These step-ins have been developed specifically for the original WH drafter horse. These carts are beautifully detailed and feature scripted sidelamps, an attached buggy whip, reins, and shafts adjusted for either singleton or team driving. In addition, they have been balanced and tuned to deliver a superb driving experience so that even the novice horse or driver can have a smooth experience their first time out.
The team step-in even includes reinds and a buggy whip as well as side lamps!
The Step-Ins use a combination of sculpts and regular prims and careful scripting and texture work to create a showcase cart that is both stylish and functional.
The Step-Ins come in Black, White, Wine, Princess Pink, Hunter, and Navy and seat two passengers, plus one or two horses. Singleton and team carts are sold separately
The Drafter Singleton Step-in is well-balanced and ideal for estate driving.
Please visit Carriage Trade for all of your horse or pony needs!
********About Carriage Trade Pony Carriages********
These products are sold Copy, NO MOD, NO TRANSFER. The reason for this is simple: Our additions to the basic carriage (animations, poses, gestures, and other add-ons) are precisely placed so that they orient the driver, rider, or particle effect precisely. Changing the carriage by trying to do a simple resize for other sized avatars will result in an unhappy experience for the purchaser. We’ve had enough complaints from people trying to resize our carriages (who didn’t realise the reason their driver ended up embedded in the seat or worse was because of the scripting), that we decided to not allow modification to the carriages.
Happy Driving!
Shenlei
Lillie