Hello there!

Welcome to the Victorian Horse Council! I am your council president, and before I tell you about the council, I must tell you that the council doesn’t exist. I started participating in online horse simulation games/communities back in 1999, and as of 2025 I’ve officially admitted defeat trying to keep up with these communities in my spare time, but I don’t want to give up on the reason to maintain my coding, web design, horse, and art special interests, so I’m just out here playing with myself and whoever wants to parallel play.

What are these online horse sims? Well, I’ve got a longer explanation in the “What is Sim?” article on the resources menu, but in short it’s fantasy sports, except the players are fake horses and the money is fake as well. We pretend to own, compete, and breed fictional horses that mirror real world breeding and competition without the restrictions of real world economics and the inflexibility of time. Want a brand new 5-year-old mare from the brood mare you just retired from her show career yesterday? Sure, why not.

The Victorian Horse Council (VHC) started in 2013 when it was somewhat popular in some of the Anglosphere communities to invent your own new breeds with full stud book lore, goals, and inspections to go with them. I built the Victorian Warmblood breed on a base of Trakehners and Lipizzaners and an infusion of carefully selected Anglo-Arabians, sport-bred Arabians, and Thoroughbreds. It didn’t take long before I took inspiration from the KWPN and expanded the stud book to recognize the Victorian Sport Horse (a sport horse out-crossing of the Victorian Warmblood that maintains a high percentage of Lipizzaner lineage,) the Victorian Carriage Horse (a slower, flashier version of the Victorian Warmblood that permits use of the Cleveland Bay instead of Lipizzaner and permits infusion of breeds like the Hackney and Friesian for movement and form,) and the Victorian Riding Pony (a pony-height crossing of the Victorian Warmblood or Victorian Carriage Horse with Mountain & Moorland group pony breeds to produce an ideal sport pony or carriage pony that still represents many Victorian Warmblood or Victorian Carriage Horse breeding goals.)

Today, the VHC exists as a resource for the players of various games who still breed these breeds, especially if you would like to use my breed guides and inspection service, but also as a private show circuit to replace my participation in games that keep moving even when I don’t have the time. Don’t worry, though! My horses don’t always win. Every class my horses participate in are padded with ghost entries from a 1000+ head herd of filler competitors. Find out more on the show circuit page under the VHC menu!

[ Page last updated: 2025-10-05 ]