Famous Chestnuts

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I resently brought a chestnut mare, i dont know why i did it as i am not a chestnut person (but she is very sweet and very pretty) i can remember in the 90's everyone saying down the yard dont get a chestnut they are Hot headed and slightly tapped! anyway i have been looking to see famous chestnuts as most of them seem to be pretty good horses weather slightly tapped or not, all i can come up with is:

Auto Annie ~ Mare

For Pleasure ~ Stallion

Toytown~ Gelding

can anyone think of any others????
 
Aldaniti - gelding (I think)

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Shantih was the red chesnut arab mare in Patricia Leitch's Jinny books
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I'm not one for chesnuts, either, though I love liver chesnut and sometimes they have a fabulous red tinge to them, especially the stallions.
 
Carnaval Drum ? although I dont know if famous but I have a chestnut mare who is his granddaughter lol. I have two chestnut mares the other is a TB - breeding unknown.
 
Off the top of my head

Racing:
Whistlejacket
Bosra Sham
Lammtarra
Hyperion
Crepello
Nashwan
New Approach
Kris Kin
The Minstrel

SJ:
Mr Softee
Flanagan
It's The Business
Amber du Montois (now there's a madam!)

. . . umm . . . still thinking . . . .

Oh, God, yes, Carnaval Drum - how could I forget? I know him well and bred my filly by his - chestnut - son, Carnaval Pleasure . . . . doh!!!!!
 
I have a welsh d liver chestnut filly total witch and pain in the ass - i really would like her to be different!! She drives me insane one step forward and 3 back, maybe she needs a new mum!!
 
I have a Sec D chestnut mare, 4 white socks & she's FAB - best behaved horse I've ever owned and never been mareish (had her since 3 now 10 & wouldn't change her for anything).
 
First one that came into my mind was Malcolm Pyrah's Towerlands Anglezarke! He was a wonderful horse. The thought was quickly followed by Liz Edgars' Everest Forever. Two faboulous showjumpers.....
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A few chestnut SJ'ers for you:-

Flambeau C
Everest Oyster
Gladstone
Fire II
ET
Calvados
Jus de Pomme
King of Diamonds (?)
Goldfever
Quidame Des Hayettes
Upto Date 8
Disney Way

And from the world of Drossage - Mistral Hojris


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Shahrastani (won both English and Irish Derbies) a lovely horse,
Grundy won our Derby.
Weren't Mr Frisk and Cruise Missile, Spartan Missile, chestnuts?

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Mr Frisk definately was, I worked on the Stud that bred him and we had his full brother, Master Frisk - on the yard.

I love gingers, I'm on my second generation chestnut mare, and she's a total love, and the third generation is a chestnut boy with a twist - the spotty botty.

Love them!
 
Donnerhall was a very famous chestnut whose dressage legacy will last for a long time indeed!

I remember shantith. Does anyone remember Silent King the horse and pony mags show jumper?
 
Billy Landretti is chesnut isn't he? Tina Cook's General Jock too.

Ben Maher's ride who I cannot for the life of me remember the name of (I've got a pic of him jumping at Hickstead)
 
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Wasn't the Pie (or Pi?) in National Velvet a chestnut?

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In the film, yes he was (and a gelding; amazing that he became a bay stallion in "International Velvet"!). In the original book, however, he was piebald . . . hence "The Pie"
 
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