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Do you think there is a pattern or trend for a preferred colour of our equine friends or is it that you have always had a soft spot for a certain colour and stick to that? :)

When I was a kid everyone wanted a chestnut with a flaxen mane and tail or a palomino :D Now that was 15+ years ago now :o

Nowdays everyone seems to loved the coloureds. Those showing classes are always the best attended. It was seeing a coloured class that got me thinking . . . I don't remember them being so popular a few years back.

Now I love all horses and colour doesn't mean anything to me but wanted to see what you guys think.
 
I always wanted a coloured... I got one... and I don't want another!! She is one of the best marked coloureds imo, and I won't get one as nice, from a colour perspective :p

I would like a dapple grey, as I think they're stunning, but I'm not that bothered really.
 
I'm not a follower of trends at the best of times, but I like to think of my dark bay as a kind of timeless classic, like the little black dress his rich mahogany tones will never go out of fashion :p

Seriously, though, I have seen a LOT more coloureds about recently - I'm not a huge fan of them generally, a really nice one will turn my head, but so will a really nice horse of any colour. If I was looking for a horse, and had narrowed it down to 2 who were exactly the same (unlikely to happen in reality, I know) but one was coloured and one wasn't, I'd go for the non-coloured.
 
I personally feel that a horse is a horse, not a particular personality because of its colour!

Yes, I do have a soft spot for bays :o But this is because most of the horses that have really made a difference in my life, left hoofprints on my heart, have been bay! However, these have ranged from an utter saint of a cob (RIP Gwen x), a naughty little german riding pony who napped with the best of them, but gave me my first official canter(!) and of course Bonnie Coblet, the evil pony who has instilled mountains of confidence in me, whom I previously thought was black, until she started to shed for the summer!

So... Colour doesnt really matter to me at all. I think its just a coincidence that the above horses are bay. xx
 
I must admit we have a wide range of colours on our yard.... Blacks, Bays, Whites, Greys, Chestnuts etc but my boy is the only Piebald and we get loads of comments when the little ones come in asking who's horse he is and saying his lovely and they want to ride him lol but I've always had a softspot for blacks and coloureds myself ;) the more unusual the markings the better!! :D
 
I think a couple of years ago it was greys (like white greys) and now its definalty coloureds but I think thsi is going out of fashion now, I wonder what next? :)

Personally I like eye catching horses, hence my Appy :p
 
I have to say I've been a bay lover for ever. My big boy is a beautiful rich bay. But I inherited a stunning coloured little boy and he's beautiful too!

I'm biased in favour of facial markings. My boys have fabulous ones!
 
When I was a kid I wanted a palomino really really badly. Failing that a chestnut. Coloured ponies were just thought very down market (note please owners of skewbalds etc that was back in the mists of time :D )

Now I still love chestnuts, particularly chestnut mares. Also have a very soft spot for greys.

I guess my least favourite was, and still is, plain bay with no white (apologies to my old mare who of is, of course, a very special bay he he)
 
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After talking to the Lady who owns the yard where my two littlies are kept she told me lots about old colour thoughts etc.
Apparently at one point Black horses were avoided and in many cases those with a black horse called there horse dark brown. This was around 10years ago whilst she had a yard of black horses.
Both her and her daughter cannot stand coloureds, they think they have a nasty streak. My little Tigger is the exception although I imagine they only say that to not hurt my feelings! Her daughter is also often quoted when seeing a spotty "I'd like it with a bullet, but that's as far as it goes".
They also say if you get a good grey mare then they'll try their hearts out for you and you can't get better. I'd agree with this with regards to my little Bramble.

I personally would have a coloured over anything followed by black or grey over a chesnut or bay.
 
I always wanted a dun/buckskin or grey from they age of five or as i said yellow or white :D i`ve now got a buckskin :p buckskin tobiano is next on my list...proving diffcult :(
Coloureds were looked down on years ago, i`m not a massive fan as there`s so many of them now but i do like a nicely marked one. i`ve always been a big fan of appy`s too:)
 
Just by chance I have gone through all shades of chestnut. Also had a bay and a grey (White). Don't really have a preference, but I am a sucker for a big blaze! Am looking at the moment and am open to anything. Always wanted a buckskin though, something special about a golden pony
 
Wife was going on about what people thought of coloureds when she started riding and no one wanted to touch them with a bargepole. Go figure.

I just wanted a nice guy. He turned out to be a chestnut. Now I love chestnuts . Now that's easy to figure :)

There doesn't seem to be that many about. Everyone hiding them?
 
my favourite has always been loud spotties,least favourite a bay.i bought a bay mare,known since a foal who i love to pieces.i also bought a leopard spot who i owned for a year and a half,thought he was lovely,but didnt gel.have just sold him and bought a piebald mare who seems to be just like my mare,the bay.dont think i would bother with the colour now.
 
i have had 3 horses. all bay. i swore the third one had to be coloured. but still, i had to go with the horse i wanted - never mind the colour :)
 
I love my ginger boy. He's beautiful and has a beautiful temperament too.

I wouldn't be keen on a grey or a coloured. Not because of how they look but because I'm lazy and hate grooming!
 
I too like eye-catching horses, hence my obsession with Appies :D I also love palominos, buckskins and skewbalds, although not a fan of piebalds. I also have a soft spot for chestnut mares. I've always thought bays were a bit plain and boring but my Gem's beautiful and she's dark bay, and one of the most influential horses of my riding career was also dark bay & i loved her to pieces.
 
I buy all colours, a good horse is a good horse, BUT, the buckskins, palominos and Paints etc fetch more over a plain solid.

Overos sell better than tobianos, and splash overos sell better than minimal frames, unless they are a good colour.
Bright palominos with chrome sell better than a solid sooty palomino.
A solid bay/chestnut/black with a good blaze and high whites catches the eye more and sell better than solids with no chrome.
Loud appys sell better than a varnish, roans and grullas are not so common and always get loads of interest.

I have to work harder to sell a boring dark brown horse even if he is the best I have on the yard. Say if I were to call him (incorrectly) a sooty black in an advert I'd get twice the interest than if I described him as a dark brown :rolleyes: Go figure. Colour snobbism;)

I really like palominos and paints, but our riding horses are bay mares.
 
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i am a huge sucker for a nice big bay :) no other colours have really ever tempted me tbh! if there were 2 horses exactly the same i would choose bay over any other colour any day!
 
HappyHorses:) said:
Nowdays everyone seems to loved the coloureds. Those showing classes are always the best attended. It was seeing a coloured class that got me thinking . . . I don't remember them being so popular a few years back.
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A couple of years ago my aunt was flicking through my copy of H&H. She noticed the huge number of coloured horses in it and I told her they were the in thing these days. Her reply was "when I was a kid, a coloured was what you had if you couldn't afford a horse!", in other words, a coloured was much cheaper than any other colour. She couldn't believe it when I told her the opposite is the case these days.

Prsonally, I prefer solid dark colours with minimal white. I generally go against trends and I there is no way I would pay more for a horse because of it's colour, 'cause at the end of the day, that's the least important thing about a horse!
 
No one has mentioned the Roans, I had a strawberry roan as a child and he was very special to me and have loved roans ever since.
I now have a bay roan who I have owned for ten years and every year she is a different colour, she started off a very rosey colour, now she's getting more grey, so me being greedy she is black,bay,grey,chestnut with a splash of white and if I knew how to post a pic? :-)
 
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wonders if this works?
 
i've had a bay, 2 greys and a roan, currently have a beautiful chestnut mare. I've always wanted an iron grey!
 
I've had, a bay roan (who was gorgeous), bay, dappled grey, dun, and now chestnut with almost a roan tail and odd coloured mane - who I think is just lovely ;). However I have always wanted a seal brown horse, failing that a rose grey :).
 
I never used to like bays and I'm still not that keen on the colour but I bought one by chance last year and she is turing out to be the best horse I've ever owned.

I do like coloureds although I prefer hairy cobs to the finer ones. And I've always liked cremello's. My favoruite colour for many years is black, but only a true black which are rare.
 
I don't care about trends, if the horse is a good one then it's a good one & the colour doesn't have any bearing on the decision to buy or not. As for certain colours having a 'nasty streak', or they have this trait or that trait, well that's all 'old wives tales' & total rubbish.

I find it uncomprehensible that someone 'shops' for a horse by colour rather than ability, temperament, manners etc.

I have a bay horse & a grey horse, both are well schooled, have plenty of ability & are totally different characters. Their colour is immaterial....except the grey takes more cleaning.
 
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