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I always had it in my head I when I bought my own horse it would have something chunky/native about it :) and be a gelding. Nothing against mares at all but wanted a gelding :) and also I would love a coloured.

Then I bought Belle, a slender thorough bred liver chestnut mare :P but wouldn't change her for the world and love her to bits!!

Has anybody else done this? Had a very clear idea in their head and got something very different? Hope I'm nt the only one :-P
 
Nope, you're definitely not alone! I had visions of a smart, well turned out bay with a bit of experience. But I bought a scruffy skewbald Shire x instead - love her to bits and wouldn't swap for the world! Sometimes I think they pick us!!
 
Mine always end up being too big, I'm 5'3 and 8 1/2 stone but the last 2 have been 17hh +, the first I only tried in the field then when my instructor and I came to collect him for 2 weeks trial he was in a tiny stable - Instructor very nearly refused to put him on lorry! But I had him 7 years and he never once used his size against me !
 
Olive is exactly what I didn't want. I didn't have too much of a fixed idea but I knew I was looking for a gelding, a solid colour or with white socks... Something at least 15.3 - 16.1

I KNEW I DID NOT WANT a piebald cob mare........... Guess what I got? :D and she's only 15.1!
 
I went looking for a 3yo welsh section A filly, bought a 10 month old welsh section A colt.
Then I went looking for an 8/9 yo cobby sort, thought I would end up with a welsh section D or similar, but came home with a 4yo mainly TB Irish sports horse!😳
 
I had a beautiful black a good 16hh plus mare, who was already schooled and ready to compete..

Ended up with this:

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A 14.1 and a half, cream dun highland, who was rising 3.

And who still schools with a severe grudge! *rolls eyes*
 
I choose mine with slightly different criteria from most on this forum I suspect, so when I am looking for a particular horse (bloodlines, colour, markings, breed type etc) I generally ONLY look at those horses adverts, so I generally always end up with the type of horse I set out to look for. If I was just a one-horse owner and I was looking for a regular riding horse then I would probably find the market way too big for me and would find it tough sticking to what I thought I wanted perhaps. When it's a business decision it makes buying or not buying so much easier.
 
Last time I went horse shopping I set out to look for 15-15.2hh grey or bay with no socks and minimal face markings if any tb exracer mare to do Intermediates on and then breed from in the future. I ended up with a 16hh gelding, dark bay with one white sock behind and a big blaze that goes through his muzzle and into his lower lip. He is the nicest, sweetest horse you could ever wish for!
 
Always wanted a coloured cob or smart bay section d.

Ended up with 15.2 hunter type chestnut cob x

Then recently added a chestnut ex racer mare to the collection.

Both with matching white blazes x
 
Meh, fate works in mysterious ways ;)


When looking for our first pony years ago mum maintained it would not be a mare, it would not be a welsh, and it would be a suitable first pony...

We got a 13.3 welsh sec D, absolute b u g g e r but 8 years on wouldn't change her for the world she's a darling do anything with her under saddle or on the ground etc :) A bit like marmite though to be fair....
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Still got her.
And I thought my next horse would be a nice 15.2 maybe coloured. A more sporty type in any case...instead I got a horse that looks just like my first pony but a hand bigger :p:p:p
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When I was 10, I wanted a flashy black arab of story book style epicness, who would be flighty and daft and rear at its own shadow.

Thankfully I bought this:

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Then when I was 22 I went out looking for a 14,2 highland to do TREC on. I bought this:

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And then this

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So I have improved a lot ;)
 
First one was spot on I wanted a cob and got one. He isn't a cob in the head though but that was a bonus.
Second I wanted a ID xTB, tried a few and ended up with another cob.
Third I wanted to breed my own (cob x ISH, planning for a small compact sports horse) but mare wouldn't take so went out to buy a ISH. Got one but it was a nutter and was swapped for a Belgian draught x.
 
When looking to buy my first horse, about 18 months ago, I was looking for something cobby in the 14.2-15.2 region that wouldn't cost the earth to keep.


I ended up with 17hh of pure attitude. It was the way she looked at me.....:rolleyes:
 
Yep ... wanted a Chesnut purebred arab, about 14.2hh, as flashy as i could find, preferably with 4 white socks and a blaze and maybe a flaxen mane and tail. Fine, chiseled and gloriously beautiful.

I ended up with a 15 hh big fat hairy black and white Irish gypsy cob and I love every single hair on his body ...:D
 
I went out looking for a mare, preferably a grey mare, about 15hh, preferably with some arab in her... or maybe a flashy little coloured mare... but definitely a mare...

..bought a 16hh bay lummox of an ISH and I wouldn't swap him for the world now! (though I do wish he was grey!!)
 
i was supose to get a 14.2 'lightweight' cob, over 12 years old that had been there done that
ended up with a 15.3 tb x ish, 7 years old, had a year off, and only ever done 1 event and couldnt do a dressage test....went on to pony club nationals.........he is never leaving my side!

2nd horse.....was not to look like my first! so i couldnt compare them........well that went out the window :)
very simliar breeding - shes tb x slightly heavey warmblood
same build
same colourings all over body
same markings
same likes/dislikes

only things that are differnt is shes a mare and is 17.3!!!!!!
when standing in the distance together, or bringing them out one after the other people get them very confused.....
 
I went pony shopping with my heart set on a chunky Haffie gelding. Ended up with a slender appaloosa mare!

We didnt get on at all and I tried everything to make it work but in the end I sold her and bought... a chunky Haffie gelding :D
 
I wanted a WB mare, preferably KWPN, at least 16h, and ideally black but any colour other than grey.

I ended up with a 15.1 purebred Arab gelding...guess what colour he is? :rolleyes:
 
So was visualizing a bombproof showjumper....


Have a v spooky Welsh D who wouldn't hack alone when I got him but now will but with lots of dragon like snorting/ leaping. Can jump but thinks fillers will eat him until he has been sure to give them a thorough risk assesment!
 
Lintel said:
I had a beautiful black a good 16hh plus mare, who was already schooled and ready to compete..

Ended up with this:

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A 14.1 and a half, cream dun highland, who was rising 3.

And who still schools with a severe grudge! *rolls eyes*
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Makes you stronger though and so rewarding when you do get work out of them! Said I would never have any thing other than a highland then my trad appeared.... Very different but love her a lot! I have 4 highlands!
 
Stupid phone pressed reply before I finished

Also visualised a horse who comes to call... Instead get knobber who despite the pissing down rain will bog off to the opposite end of the field!

Love him really ;)
 
Mine is probably what I had in mind when I was looking for my first horse: ideally about 15.2, gelding, probably native cross, about 12-14. Max is 15.2, we think welsh cross and he was 14 when I bought him however he is my 4th horse as I kept deviating from my original plan! Having said that although he is a total star he can be a bit sharp and his flat work was awful when I got him and I don't think I could have dealt with either of those things in my first horse but following the 'nutters' of various shapes and sizes I did choose he is my perfect horse :D
 
Its funny how it turns out !

I knew i wanted a chestnut mare. Found her at the yard we kept our pony at. 10 years on, and shes still with me. Just what i ordered.:)

Daughters step up to a 14.2, decided we loved the irish, so wanted a connemara, bay gelding. Even went Ireland to view some. Came home next day went to the local dealer, bought a black gelding, who if you squinted really hard while looking sideways could pass for a connemara. ( Otherwise he looked like a fell )

Then daughters first step up to horses, wanted irish bay gelding, 4 black legs. Ended up with chestnut TB mare.

They are fab, and love them all
 
No! About the only box mine ticked was that I wanted a mare. She was too young, too short, too fine, and a "boring bay" with no white.

But she is perfect!
 
I didn't have any criteria except a 'no greys' policy as the constant grooming would drive me mad

I bought two greys :p
 
When horses shopping I had a solid image of a good sturdy Irish draft x in my mind, preferably a grey gelding... Something like this -

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I came home with a scrawny, poor doer, bay, stroppy ex racer mare who looked like this -

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Who developed into this -

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I think it's good that things don't always go to plan and the horse sometimes finds us, I know she wasn't what I wanted but I know I wouldn't swap her for the world!
 
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