Experiences/thoughts of chestnut mares??

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With all the hype that goes with a chestnut mare i am just interested on peoples thoughts/experiences of them. Bought a chestnut filly in the winter and so many people say why did you buy a chestnut mare! Other people say that a chestnut mare is the best horse they ever had. Or is it all a load of rubbish? Have never personally owned one before.
 
A chestnut mare is no different from any other colour mare.

I've had one - and we have about four on the yard. Nothing wrong with them.
 
I'd pick a mare of any colour over a gelding any day!
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I've had quite a few chestnut mares and fond memories of all of them
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I have had 4 and 2 were a bit sharp, but there is many quirky horses, nothing to do with colour, it would never put me off if i liked the horse.
 
Exactly what i thought, but anything they do wrong, 'ooh chestnut mare' i think to myself that i'm sure she'd do the same if she was bay, grey, etc!!
 
We have loads of chestnut mares at work (Arab stud) and I have to say I dont get on with them (but then Im not a mare person). Having said that, ours are all related so its probably nothing to do with their colour, but with their breeding!
 
I've known a few, lots of old wives tales about them, one I knew really fitted the stereotypical image of a 'chestnut mare', but she would have been the same no matter what colour! I grew up being told if they had 'berry marks', it cancelled out the 'bad bit'?? ANyone else heard that?
 
i like chestnut mares its chestnut geldings i've always had problems with, i've had 3 and they've all been bad
 
Chestnut mares are fabulous! They do tend perhaps to be a bit more sensitive than other horses, so may account for their reputation. In my experience, if you ride them right and treat them sensitively then they are very responsive and willing to please you. Haul them about and treat them roughly and they won't tolerate it at all.
 
its just a colour, its like saying i have a bad temper because i have red hair. hang on, bad example as i have got a bad temper
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actually, i have one chestnut mare and she is fully mental. fully.
im her 3rd owner and have traced her to her firstowner, who packed her off to a sale.
i do think its just old grooms tales HOWEVER its making me doubt i want another...ive been offered a nice well bred tb mare for nothing, BUT shes ginger, and it IS putting me off

before anyone says i daft...i know i am
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its definitely old wives tales!! i had a chestnut mare, she was nutty due to bad experiences as a youngster. i now hve a chestnut gelding, who's nutty coz he's exciteable! there's a chestnut filly at my yard, who's got a fantastic temperament and is a fab horse in the making. i've ridden chestnut mares who are placid and laid back. being a mum to two red headed boys, i'm always being asked if they have a firey temper to match. they are no more firey than any other brothers together! its an old belief.
 
I had a chestnut mare pony, she was a moo at times! but no more so than a bay mare i used to look after. I will add that she was a real sweetie at times too.
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An old wives' tale - just an excuse someone once came up with for not being able to manage or control a horse which has become a stereotype. You never hear anyone say 'don't buy it it's a bay gelding, they're bad news' and I am sure you get as many quirky horses of each sex/colour as you do chestnut mares - but those quirky chestnut mares almost have an excuse made up for them and their behaviour.

I am on my second chestnut mare - and both of them are and were wonderful horses. My chestnut mare I have now has 4 white socks - I also get grief about buying a horse with 4 white socks - not sure where that wives' tale came from!
 
My horse of a lifetime was a chestnut mare (galloping one in my siggy). Also had 2 other chestnut mares and love them. Its an old wives tale in my opinion
 
I think there may be something about ' redheads' fullstop. I have had two chestnut geldings the first was sharp but sane and the second is just plain in-sane and is a field ornament.

I also have a bay pony and a bay horse who are both as easy as the chestnut is difficult,

shame as chestnut is my fave colour.
 
I've had 2 chestnut mares that have been fine, in fact my grey appy mare is more cheeky than the chestnut mares iv had! lol! I've got a chestnut gelding aswell and hes fab too! N my mums had her chestnut mare for 20years, so thats gotta be sayin somethin!
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The only horse I've had thats ever drastically misbehaved was a bay - but it wouldn't stop me buying another one! Every horse is different
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Four white socks rhyme is something like this - although there are various versions of this I've just found:

One white- buy him,
Two whites- try him,
Three white feet, look well about him,
Four white feet, you can do without him.
 
I have just bought me first chestnut mare and shes a darling. Possibly a bit thin skinned and hates flies and lets you know if her mane gets under ther saddle but the nicest ponio I have ever met.
I could almost start being unfaithful to grey mares from now on!
 
I think it is just an old wives tale tbh. But saying that, I have had two chestnut mares in the past, and both were fairly wizzy, but that could be coincidence ... or the fact that one was an Anglo Arab!
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I have two - one an AES and one a TB. The AES has issues (but due to her upbringing) but is calm and steady. The TB is very temperamental but could be her breed more so as well. I love them both but have definitely decided my next one is going to be a bay gelding lol
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I have a chestnut mare, and she is the typical stereotype! Everything is on her terms, she throws proper foot stamping tantrums, and once she's lost the plot, that's it for at least an hour (sometimes longer depending on what set her off).

She's still my horse of a lifetime though, and I'll never find one like her. So talented, affectionate (on her terms of course!) and a real personality. Maybe not the easiest of horses, but she makes up for it
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An old wives' tale - just an excuse someone once came up with for not being able to manage or control a horse which has become a stereotype.

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i manage mine fine. doesnt mean to say shes not got a srew loose
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I also get grief about buying a horse with 4 white socks - not sure where that wives' tale came from!

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white socks = pink skin = suceptible to mud fever = nuisance
 
Had a chesnut mare and now have a grey mare - both can be complete madams but also lovely at other times.
The main thing I miss about my chesnut mare (she had no white on her apart from a tiny star) was that she always looked gorgeous even when I'd only had time for a 2sec flick over with a brush! At one show, I plaited her at 7am, left her in her show stable till 2pm while I helped out with the organisation of the show and then got her straight out and tacked her up. Fat chance with grey madam, no matter how many rugs or hoods she wears!
 
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