CHESNUTS A FALLACY

[Anastasia]

Currently multitasking and posting on here while watching Olympia.....

However, with the amount of people you hear that would not have a chesnut horse........about all the top showjumping horses at Olympia tonight are chesnut.....

 

[Ravenwood]

I have two chestnut mares and they are both lovely - not chestnut marish at all. In fact one of them is the sweetest most cuddly horse you could ask for who adores small children.

Wish I could watch Olympia on TV!

 

[Fahrenheit]

I love chestnuts, I have plenty of chestnut mares

 

[Anastasia]

I have to say we are very fortunate to have Sky!

 

[dozzie]

Having always only liked bays I have a chestnut and she has her days but essentially she is the kindest horse I've had. I'd have another.

 

[lisan]

I love my Orange Madam to bits! She is a bit over sensitive and fiesty, but very loving and sweet!

 

[cellie]

is olympia still on what side please!!!!!!!!!!!
I adore my chestnut hes a gelding although he behaves like a stallion at times.prob his breed tb

 

[Anastasia]

It was on Eurosport but its now finished.....back on tomorrow evening...

 

[cellie]

Thanks will have a look tommorrow went last year and really enjoyed it

 

[cellie]

Has anyone ever seen a horse with the same markings as mine .He has a stripe down his face but at the widest the top has two rings which are chestnut.Looks like he is wearing specs or a bit fossil/skeletal looking.

 

[goldengryffindor]

All my best ponies and horses have been chestnut and liver chestnut.

 

[MagicMelon]

That's because only pro's can handle the "chesnut temperament"!

 

[Nats_uk]

I never used to like chestnuts but since I have mine I like them a lot more and I love my boy and wouldn't change his colour for the world

 

[Flame_]

My last horse was chestnut and he was just awesome. My newish horse is also chestnut and while I love her to bits and can see the potential, she is what might be described as challenging!

 

[Nats_uk]

I think it is safe to say that all Chestnuts are quirky - that's why we love them so!

 

[Cop-Pop]

I have a chestnut mare and she is the sweetest, steadiest horse I've met whereas my bay horse freaks out if the grass blows in the wrong direction!

 

[boneo]

I like the way almost everybody is trying to correct your spelling of the colour of your horse, which is, of course, the correct way! Chestnuts grow of trees.

 

[jumpthemoon]

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I like the way almost everybody is trying to correct your spelling of the colour of your horse, which is, of course, the correct way! Chestnuts grow of trees.

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It's spelt incorrectly in all of my horse books as well then - they all say Chestnut

 

[htobago]

The colour is named after the nut, so 'chestnut' is correct. (OP's miss-spelling was probably a typo due to multi-tasking

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I think chestnuts get their reputation partly because chestnuts tend to be thinner-skinned - and therefore possibly more 'touchy' - than other colours. Or at least so I've been told - but surely a bay TB or Arab is going to be thinner-skinned than, say, a chestnut ID or Suffolk Punch? The argument doesn't really make much sense...

The other (more likely IMO) explanation is that chestnuts are actually no more quirky or fiery or difficult than any other colour. It's just that when a quirky/difficult/fiery horse is chestnut, people associate the behaviour with the colour and say things like 'huh, typical chestnut mare!', whereas with a bay they would find other explanations for the behaviour.

A bit like red-headed people have a reputation for being 'fiery' and 'hot-tempered'. Probably just an association with the colour red, which (in most Western cultures) is associated with 'danger'?

Dunno. Just some thoughts.

 

[shadowboy]

I have a chestnut who is super! and nothing like the fallacy! I've never met such a sweet tempered mare!

 

[xfeex]

My chestnut mare is fab! very fiery though but thats what I love about her, fab in a jump off!

I hope My chestnut colt out of her has the same 'spark' about him!