colour of your horse - did it matter to you?

As a small girl I wanted a chestnut arab mare (blame those Jinny books) but by the time I went to buy one, I wanted a grey mare, needless to say I ended up by pure luck (only horse of right size, age and sex at the sale) with a....chestnut mare!

Second pony was a wee foal when I got her, and thought she would be a lovely dark bay, but she is black! As is pony no 3!

So the grey I wanted, well chestnut mare is due to foal anyday, but can only have a bay or coloured foaly, so might end up with a horse with a bit of grey on it after all!!!!

Think I'll always be found of chestnuts, but a bay roan or blue roan or palamino would be nice :D
 
When I started looking for horse, way back in 2000, I had decided I wanted a grey gelding. I was lucky enough to find Fred, a very handsome 9 year old pure bred arab gelding who was a lovely light dapple grey with a darker mane and tail. Now, 10 years later, he has changed to a flea bitten grey with a white mane and tail!!! and he's still just as handsome!!!
 
When I was looking my only real rule was I didn't want one that looked too much like my old horse who had just been pts. Did prefer a mare though. I wasn't keen on a lot of white - too much work to keep clean & I'm not wild about piebald, prefer skewbald providing not too much white. Went to a dealer to see a nicely marked skewbald mare, came away with a piebald gelding with loads of white!
 
Holly Hocks said:
- I think it is quite shallow to buy a horse based on colour - there are far more important points to think of!
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Well, I am seriously shallow then:( and so must be the buyers who reserve foals from my stock in utero.

I do breed for colour and pattern (overos, not tobianos, I am picky) no good me buying a bay mare to breed from however good her lines are if she is going to throw a bay that will be three times as hard to sell, however good the lines/temperament/conformation, and I do take all that in to account too. I won't breed any crappy old mare just for her colour or pattern.
 
no i wouldnt say so. When i was looking for a horse after my mare was pts (who was chesnut) i was more concerned with trainablity, my mare was a tricky sort. My only rule was not another exracer and buy something more laidback!

I bought a 4yo exracer (dark bay) who is sharp but does have a much more trainable temperment! :D
 
I never really wanted a boring bay (have one of them)

After Koko died I really did not want an appaloosa purely because I think it would have been too similar to him and I would have kept making comparisons.
 
I didn't care about color at all. All I looked for was that it was a mare and did what I wanted. Although the latter part did not work out exactly as planned
 
my friend was very silly when buying a horse, she didnt want a chestnut, grey or coloured ones. as i was helping her search it was very hard to find one that had the colour she liked and the right temperment! in end she bought a bay mare who has been wrong for her from the start and now is having to sell her after 7 long months of box rest :) she is now riding her nearly perfect match who is a grey gelding :D
 
I didn't want a grey because they do nothing for me. I didn't buy one either, I got a liver chestnut with four white stockings who is a joy to groom as she is also teflon-coated. As she endures grooming rather than enjoying it, this works well for both of us. I get a presentable horse, she doesn't get scrubbed to within an inch of her life.
 
Yes! I wanted a whizzy chestnut mare................

Instead I got a spotty, roany, feathery yet rather handsome gelding, purely by fate I say. I was meant to have this one.

I've gone off whizzy chestnut mares now my horse is stabled next to one...
 
I don't think it matters awfully :) I've always wanted a flaxen chestnut because i think they are stunning, and the one I have now is Chestnut with streaks of white in his mane and tail! I have had a few greys, and although they are undesirable due to the mud they attract it would never stop me buying one :L
 
Colour never mattered to me-but prettiness is a must,i dont know why it puts me off a bit if i see a not to pretty one. But if something utterly amazingly talented came up i reckon i'd go for it,ugly or not haha. My dream horse would be a beautifully marked coloured sports horse- but i have a chestnut mare and a bay tb! :)
 
Yes, I do have favourite colours, they are piebald/skewbald/tri-coloured, black, and liver chestnuts.

My mare is red bay! I just fell in love with her though and love her colour now, I never used to think it was that nice a colour but I think she is beautiful, such a vibrant red bay with lovely red tinges in her black mane, mostly on the ends, stunning in the sun light :D
 
Only spec no no's for buying has been no mares! My first loan pony was a little dun mare called Daisy though. I've had 5 boys (one was an early loan) and 3 have been grey, 1 has been a palomino, 1 was a blue roan/appaloosa.
 
When my part loan mare's owner was looking for her second horse for her daughter the last thing she wanted was a big chestnut mare.....guess what she has now? :p
and she is the sweetest most laid back comical and loving horse...! Her daughter viewed a black gelding which jumped the school fence and bolted with her, a bay mare which was insane and a few others that were described as relatively sane - instead they bought a very green 16.2hh ISH chestnut mare :)

K x
 
Colour was not a consideration when I went pony hunting but having owned a lemon and white (mainly white!!), for a year,it is now!! :)

However, I love her to bits even all the muddy, sandy, pooie stains! :)
 
I've always had a love of chestnuts and greys - so getting a chestnut skewbald on loan was quite lovely :) Then after she went back a bright bay ended up in the stable, he is now quite a muddy brown :p:D
 
I wasn't looking for another horse, but always read the horses for sale section in our local paper. Saw a 7 yr old mare advertised, read the advert, then at the end of this,as an afterthought, they had added :- 3 yr old dun filly also for sale.
Always had promised myself a dun before i retired from horses, talked myself into ringing up and went to see it that afternoon. Fell in love with her, and bought her there and then. That was 12 years ago, still have her, but have also now a standardbred.......did i say retire?
 
Although colour isn't massively important to me it does still influence me at times.
Temprement and conformation are paramount and then after that the horse must be attractive, part of that attractiveness is colour. I like a strong bold solid colour, be that chestnut/bay/black etc, preferably with some white on the face. I would be unlikely to buy coloured/spotty/cremello/palamino for a keeper.
 
Colour is definitely not a criteria.

I'm not keen on greys or coloured horses. Greys are hard to keep clean and more importantly they tend to get melanomas which kill them. I just dont get the current fashion for coloured horses at all. But if it was the right horse in every other respect then the colour would not be an issue.

Must admit I am a sucker for chestnuts though :)
 
Ive always had and loved Greys and Bays,and always fancied a Dun.I never used to like coloured.Guess what I have? Yes a little grey section A and a piebald cob gelding. lol Wouldnt awap them for the world.
 
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