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Why ever not?
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Someone was telling me recently how hard it was selling her chestnut mare because people are really snobby when it comes to chestnuts.

I really can't see why. My boy's chestnut (nicknamed the Orange Pony) and I absolutely adore him. I'd rather have him that some lolloping bay bore.
 
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Someone was telling me recently how hard it was selling her chestnut mare because people are really snobby when it comes to chestnuts.

I really can't see why. My boy's chestnut (nicknamed the Orange Pony) and I absolutely adore him. I'd rather have him that some lolloping bay bore.

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Hey, leave the bay's out of it...
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In answer to OP, yes I'd buy a chestnut horse. My last boy was chestnut, and his issues were completely unrelated to his colour
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I tell you the reason behind the question. I have been speaking to many warmblood breeders who say that it is harder to sell chesnut coloured foals and youngsters, especially as a dressage prospect.

The main colour people prefer for dressage is black, more so in the UK. I was just trying to guage if that was truely the case in the UK. I know that in the FEI lists some of the top dressage horses are chesnuts.

I am looking at this from a breeders point of view only. Personally to me QUALITY HAS NO COLOUR hence the first option above. When I look at a horse I am looking at the quality of the horse and breeding lines.

HOWEVER at the moment, would I buy a chesnut dressage breeding mare to breed with if I thought that the foals would not sell the same?
 
I wouldn't buy a chestnut filly
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Would happily buy a chestnut boy and would consider a proven chestnut mare.
Happy to be blasted from all angles but have met enough ginger b*tches in my time to be cautious
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Was said with tongue in cheek! I kind of had someone in mind when I wrote that so it wasn't a ref to all bays!

Interesting predicament though.
 
I would ONLY buy an orange horse. I have no idea why on earth chestnut horses are less sellable? I agree that you do tend to see more people buying black/dark bay dressage horses recently, I guess it's just a personal preference though. In my opinion though chestnut horses are the most attractive
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In all seriousness though colour is no issue to me, if a horse does it's job the quality is more important.
 
I do think (and this is just a personal opinion) that chestnut youngsters dont always look as striking as other colours until they are older and come into their own but thats not necessarily always the case.

Someone put a post up a while ago of all their youngsters and there was a little chestnut on there that was for me by far the most striking.
 
We've had 3 nutty chestnuts and I cannot say its a colour I actively look for.

However if the horse was stunning, colour wouldn't matter. I think chestnuts in dressage should be gaining popularity now that Isabell Werth wins everything thing on the orange Warum Nicht.
 
There are plenty of excellent chestnut dressage horses out there:
Elvis, Farbenfroh, Bretina (chestnut AND a mare!).
Nadonna, Wild Dancer, Mistral Hjoris....
Very silly to discount a horse because of its colour!
 
I have to agree that some people are colour blind and unfortunatly, in the modern climate, you need to provide what people want. Hopefully most horseowners with a bit of common sense can see past colour but then again how many people here deliberatly went out looking for a coloured/black/grey horse? It's a buyers market, you will always have people who aren't bothered/love chestnuts but it's wise to be aware of the selling powers of different coluors.
 
I adore chestnuts and if all else were equal would buy one out of because I love the colour so much
 
I ride a chestnut gelding with 4 white socks and some woman at a show the other day said why on earth did i get him. When I asked why (assuming she meant that chestnuts can be fiery redheads cos he was being a bit of a handful that day!) and she said it was partly because he was a chestnut and partly because he had four white socks?! Apparantly there is some rhyme about "1 sock try the horse, 2 socks maybe buy etc". I told her i had never heard such a rhyme...have any of you?

So basically I think there are all sorts of prejudices/preferences towards chestnuts/horses with socks etc but it is all down to personal preference at the end of the day. I have always loved chestnuts with socks and will continue to do so!! They are beautiful and I know many people who agree - so I would never be afraid to breed and get a chestnut filly/colt because there are enough of us out there to buy them!
 
The only colour I wouldn't want to buy is a grey & that's simply because I lost one to melanomas (he was an old boy but I've since known it happen to a much younger horse) & nearly all greys get melanomas eventually. I personally wouldn't want that again & I'd be panicking over every lump or bump I found.

I must admit I have favourite colours but I wouldn't buy on colour alone or turn down a horse based on colour, if I did I wouldn't have Jim because chestnut isn't really my favourite & he's a real redhead in looks & attitude!
 
How handsome are they
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My OH and friends always laugh at me because whenever I say "Oh what a nice horse" or similar 99 times out of 100 it's a chestnut!
 
My boy is a Chestnut and lovely, i think colour is irrelevant (SP) at the end of the day, if you go by the colour then you could end up missing out on something special imo dont believe all the Chestnut mare rubbish etc
 
cheers, we have a bit of an obsession with chestnuts and piebalds, but we get allsorts

yes, have heard of that socks rhyme, but theres a positive variation for every sock lol
 
I agree, quality has no colour, I had a chestnut stallion that did very well in dressage (his full brother was at Grand Prix level) and I also had a chestnut mare that I bred from, selling foals as far afield as Canada. I now have a bay gelding which is nothing to do with colour and all to do with his breeding/personality/ability, I would still have bought him if he was chestnut/black/coloured/grey.
 
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