Coloured horses eventing - Are they weaker??

[neeny5]

i think you should go look

i have a coloured warmblood mare and shes the strongest horse ive ever had, i had a bay warmblood mare before her and she was only capable of doing a single fence at 1.10 and also only small eventing, couldnt cope with intro it was too much. my coloured i have now will jump anything no matter how big or scary, been over 1.50 at home (with me kinda hanging on for dear life LOL) shes the best horse ive ever had. we are slowing down eventing next year to probably pre novice coz shes getting old shell be 18 but stil acts like a 4yo. shes been round 1.30 courses when she was younger, theres no stopping her at all and she has soo mcuh scope over anything

go try it and keep us posted

exctited hehe

 

[Sol]

My mum always told me we'd never get a coloured or a chestnut - my first pony was chestnut, 2nd coloured! Coloured would jump a house if you asked and was only 13.2hh - going on 30years old and never put a foot wrong! Maybe not eventer material at that size, but never had a day off work, and was perfect in every way except that at that age, she had developed cushings - but that's hardly due to her being coloured!

Lots of lovely coloured horses out there doing well from what I've seen

 

[Natpillai]

I understand your mum as it's a very old-fashioned opinion stemming from the fact that 20+ years ago coloured horses were the 'traditional' cob types. My mum felt the same, then 15 years ago we bought a 14.2hh coloured and all that changed (at the time his colour wasn't advertised as the seller said nobody came to see him when she put that he was skewbald!). But he had perfect conformation, was an absolute gent and had a personality to die for and 12 years later (long after I should have moved on to horses) it was widely acknowledged that he was one of the best, most high quality ponies around. Absolute machine cross country, phenomenal showjumper, completely straight-moving and only ever had one illness problem - an abscess caused by a bad batch of the flu jab. Despite 4 white feet never had even a slight sign of mud rash.

In all, my pony in a million (and my mum was well and truly won over!) and I'll never find another like him but feel so privileged that I had him for 12 wonderful years (pts July 2007 and I still miss him like mad). I'm glad people didn't like coloureds back then as I got myself the best ever bargain, purely because he was coloured - nowadays he would have been quadruple the price.

So, anyway, after all that waffle, my answer to your question is that the best, sturdiest and most willing horse I ever had was a coloured. Not seen one to come close to him since (and I'm not just speaking as his biased owner - numerous people who knew him have said the same to me without me prompting them!!). There is a wonderful breeding progamme of coloured sports horses that started about 5 years agon and the results of this are just starting to come through now - a large number are eventers but they are participating in all disciplines. The reason there are less around is that less coloured sports horses are at that age yet - but I bet in 5-10 years there will be a lot more about at the top levels.

 

[JLav]

A coloured horse won Burghley in 1967!!!!

He was called Popadom and was a skewbald gelding ridden by Lorna Sutherland.

 

[spotty_pony]

I've got two coloureds, my pony is a fab jumper, I've hunted him, show jumped him, competed him in Dressage and cross country schooled him successfully. My 6 yr old has plenty of scope and ability and I am aiming to BSJA/Event him when he is a bit older. I'm pretty sure he could easily event up to Novice Level.

So IMO coloured horses are in no way likely to be any weaker than any other colour of horse.

 

[Suzie86]

bits and pieces pippa funnells old coloured? errrr there was a really small chunky coloured at badminton a couple of years ago (i want to say phoebe buckley was riding it but i prob made that up!!), isnt there another little coloured with a female rider cant think?!?!?!?!