Best and worst thing about your horse

Best thing: she will try her heart out for me when I ask her to do something, especially jumping which she loves.
Worst thing: she can be a sod with other horses in the field - usually only wheb they're in her face (grumpy mares ��)
 
Best thing - she's so so honest, tries her heart out and will never refuse a jump. So so confidence giving, I love my darling little mare
Worst thing - recovering from colic surgery, incredibly colic prone and currently not allowed to eat any spring grass :( Causes massive management issues - especially as shes an escapologist - but she is so worth it - as long as she is happy xxx
 
Best thing is the fact he has learnt to trust people after not the best start in life. The worst is he's currently on paddock rest due to injury and won't stay in a stable and is doing anything but resting.
 
best thing(s) she is adorable and has an fabby jump. worst thing is she is a 6 year old chestnut mare and likes to be a stereotype
 
My boy's best quality is the fact that he's honest and looks after me (most of the time..). Worst quality is that he can, on occasion, be a pillock.
 
The best thing about Pie is his heart - enormous and solid gold. He literally gives me his all and thoroughly enjoys himself doing it!

The worst thing is he is ridiculously strong and is no fun at all to ride in company in open spaces - fun rides are no fun at all
 
Best..I have a strapping 17 hand boy with the attitude of a very small puppy. I have never known such an affectionate boy who seeks out and enjoys attention. When he was poorly recently, he just wanted to put his head against me. He always tries his best when riding, is lovely on the flat, hacking and jumping.

Worse. He has ERU which is causing me massive problems to manage. Just got through a nasty flare but it is a case of helicopter management watching his eyes and trying to work out triggers. Can't live out with the others this summer which I had been looking forward to as I can't risk it. Will be out late pm/overnight only,
 
Best - he's a lovely kind gentleman, loves to please and enjoys jumping
Worst - can be a bit of a donkey (hope donkey owners aren't offended!) if he doesn't fancy moving, and the other is that he's a hand too small to be ideal for me and my daughter :(
 
Best and worst thing about Cassie - she has attitude, she's a girl with opinions. I haven't read this wrong. That is both the best and worst about her. Wouldn't swap her though.

Best and worst about Cam - he's talented, generous and loving, but sadly broken at 9 years old. He's currently turned away and very happy with his lot. I am lucky to still have him, it could be far worse.

xx
 
Best: She tries her heart out and never, ever says no. She loves being ridden and lives to please you. She's the sort of horse who you can form a really strong bond with; very much a one woman horse! She's a terrific Nanny horse, will look after another horse out hacking and is super brave and confident. She's my horse of a lifetime, could never, ever find another like her.
Worst: She has absolutely atrocious manners around her stable and is foul to all other horses who walk past her stable (Will lunge over the door at them, try to kick if they walk to close to her if she's tied outside etc).
 
Best thing - my mares manners on the ground. They are second to none! If I am leading her through the field and everyone goes nuts, she doesn't bat an eyelid, just pulls faces to the other horses to keep them away from me/plowing me over! I rarely have to ask her twice or raise my voice to her. I can trust her with small children and novices knowing she will behave. (never unattended though)

Worst thing - her anxiety/temper. Under saddle she is very nervous and I have never been able to quite crack that! She just has this panic switch that I can't find the off button for...
 
14.1hh Hackney x Welsh.

Best- I would ride this horse down the M25 if I had to. People ask me to go out with youngsters as shes such a confident hack, she is still spooky but sensibly thinks about the situation. Either walk past as quick as possible but does walk in a straight line, or sniff the offending object and investigate further (This I thinks come from me getting off alot and letting her explore and realise things aren't scary, just feel sorry for the toddler on a push along bike that she practically licked the other day !)
Cheap to keep feed wise.
Is brave cross country.
This mare demonstrates the term "genuine" 100%!!


Worst-
Canter when "schooling"'is pretty non existent.
Is brave cross country BUT tends to do everything in trot.
Shes only 14.1hh.
She is super sensitive, everything rubs her in the summer, shes known as thoroughcob now. Will have to come in when summer gets here as bleaches/ burns/ flies make her bleed+++.
Shes very loud neighs at everyone who passes her stable or field.... Cute for a while, annoying after a while.
 
Best - tries her hardest, is lovely on the ground and is quick to learn
Worst - is VERY difficult to catch when the spring grass is growing and is quick to learn - ie what worked last time won't work this time, little £$%^&!. I love her for 11 months of the year, but right now......I've seriously considered a lasso!
 
Best thing: he tries so hard

Worst thing: he tries so hard

He needs to chill out!!! Actually the worst thing is his flagging appetite. The best thing is everything else. Love him to bits.
 
Best thing is almost everything:
She is so sweet on the ground, intelligent, talented, sensitive and so much fun
Worst:
She has serious issues about other horses. Don't know where they come from, but she is terrified. Have been working really hard and felt we were getting somewhere, but an idiot in a practice ring last week has set us back :(
 
Best thing - He is so kind and nice natured and tries hard to please.
Worst thing - He is colic prone and expensive to keep!
 
Archie: Best - he's THE best horse I've ever ridden in traffic, nothing bothers him. Plus (I can't do just one) he gives the best cwtches.
Worst: I'll never really know what he could have done if he didn't have stupid rubbish feet that stopped him jumping and were probably responsible for the (fairly limited) bad behaviour he showed. Seeing how chilled he is now he knows work (just hacking) won't hurt makes me realise how the stress / nappy behaviour must have been pain related.

Monty: Best - he's incredibly genuine but a little bit lazy, so only just gives it enough to get the job done which makes him really safe. He's just the easiest horse to deal with in every aspect.
Worst - he's 20 so it will all be coming to an end sooner rather than later. :( I would gladly spend twice as much to clone him as I would to buy another like him if I had a guarantee it would work. I dread the day he has to stop.

I'll have another joint worst thing about the 2 of them if I may. They're both b****y white - or should be.
 
Best - superbly athletic - very light on his feet, will (or rather, would once) jump anything from anywhere, very bright.
Worst - I can't get to the bottom of what's wrong with him. Treated for KS & ulcers, should be 100%, looks magnificent...but has zero interest in work. :-(

T x
 
Best: Tries his heart out and enjoys his work - would happily work four times a day or hack to John O'Groats if asked - on a relaxed day.

Worst: Like Damnation's mare, he is nervous under saddle, and often there is no rhyme or reason to it and I have no way of predicting which will be relaxed days and which won't. Yesterday he was so tense and jumpy that he was as stiff as a board all the way through a 90 minute hack and not a comfortable ride at all. Unlike Damnation's mare, his manners on the ground are not always perfect. They are 80 per cent better than when I bought him but he still occasionally forgets them and thinks he's a two-year-old colt....
 
the worst was in July 2014 when I led him out of the gate to get on. He wouldn't move and couldn't even get back in the gateway. He had gone blind.

The best has been this last week. Last Nov his sight started to come back after 16 months. I spent all winter getting him going again. Twice this week I have done 4 hour rides on him. He can see, he marched back into the yard after today's ride and I am sure could have done it all again. He is 18 and truly amazing in the way he coped with his sight loss and recovery.
 
he is a brat and if he doesn't want to do something he will just stop and I can't move him for love nor money, unless I have someone on the ground or another horse with me!

but even though he's still young and learning loads, he's so blimmin brave and we went out for an 8 mile hack at the weekend, crossed a motorway bridge, busy a road, and he was totally genuine the whole way round! scared on the bridge on the way out but sooo much braver on the way back! wish he could be like that all the time! can't wait until he's over his brat stage!
 
The pony tolerates my many stupid ideas about what we should do for fun (and as a result now walks over tarps, thru water and under very low things, he's also used to being ridden one-handed (or occasionally with no hands at all, although we don't attempt this in strange places in case of sudden monster attacks), accepts flags / sticks / other such things to be waved about by the idiot on his back and will quite happily canter along with me leaning off the side of him, not saying I have much steering mind you!)

He is however oh so slightly buggered (Cushings, laminitis prone, sidebone and other soft tissue damage in foot coupled with thin soles that rear their ugly head every time I ****** his management up). If everything with his (rather full on) management is not just so then he immediately goes footy which then takes weeks / months of work to resolve.
 
Camilla - Best - Utter gem of a pony, pretty, jumps anything, manners to die for. EXCEPT she's an absolute demon when she's in seasn & hates BIG stuff on the road.

Dave - Best - Handsome, very personable, loves people & strangely, tractors. Except he's afraid of his own shadow & anything else outside Dave World.

Dave is having his come uppance soon, as my instructor is coming to visit. Milly is just..... Milly.
 
paddy555 said:
the worst was in July 2014 when I led him out of the gate to get on. He wouldn't move and couldn't even get back in the gateway. He had gone blind.

The best has been this last week. Last Nov his sight started to come back after 16 months. I spent all winter getting him going again. Twice this week I have done 4 hour rides on him. He can see, he marched back into the yard after today's ride and I am sure could have done it all again. He is 18 and truly amazing in the way he coped with his sight loss and recovery.
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How fantastic is that! I hope his sight continues to recover, it must have been a terrifying experience for the both of you, but so heartwarming in that there is literally a light at the end of the tunnel for your boy.
 
German warmblood mare
Best thing: she's my life. I've had her for over half of my life and she's my everything. She's intelligent, hilarious, has an amazing personality and is so much fun to ride. She can do it all, nothing is too much to ask under the saddle. 0% spooky, very confident.
Worst thing: Her confidence makes her bossy sometimes. This means if she doesn't want something, it's not happening.

Welsh cob mare
Best thing: She's so gentle and sweet. She gives you 150% every day. She's really social and loves to cuddle.
Worst thing: Her health problems, COPD and her skin issues :( Literally the only bad thing about this awesome pony!
 
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