Mare's Or Geldings?

Mares every time for me. Of all the horses I've ever ridden I've only gotten on with one gelding, and he was a big girl anyway.

Get a mare on your side and they'll try their heart out for you, the challenge is getting them on your side in the first place. I find them so much more intelligent than geldings, my mare usually does as I ask, but if I ask her to do something daft (like jump from a terrible stride etc) she has the sense and self preservation to say no - not just to blunder on anyway because I told her to do it.
 
Mares, but that's mainly because I like to make life more difficult for myself.
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Mares every time for me. Of all the horses I've ever ridden I've only gotten on with one gelding, and he was a big girl anyway.


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LOL, ditto.
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Started off with a witch of a mare.
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Then had a lovely gelding.
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Several years later (just don't ask...OK) I acquired a chestnut mare (told you not to ask!!)....and she has been with me for 19 years. We did have our differences of opinion over the years, but she is a sweetheart now and is just like a labrador! I reckon that's because I don't ask anything of her now, therefore, she has nothing to argue with......???!!

However, I would generally go for a gelding - much safer I reckon.
 
On ponies - geldings all the way, in 14 years competing ponies I only had one nice mare.
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On horses - either really, the mares don't seem to be as marish as they did when I was on ponies (I had one 12.2 mare that would try and kill you when in season).
 
I get on with geldings- I managed to successully turn the most unmareish mare into a cowbag in 5 minutes (don't know how, because I'm not a horrendous rider, and I cope with a neurotic TB without too many hitches!). Mum says there are too many hormones between me and mares to even contemplate making it work- I have never ever ridden a mare successfully!
 
I'm not that fussed really, but out of preference it would be mares, then stallions then geldings - the only geldings I seem to get on with are troubled souls (or prats as my OH likes to call them)
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Had both, I have never had a preference, if they did the job I didn't mind, any more than I was fussed about colour, as long as it was an arab
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Now I am fussy about colour AND gender.
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Currently I wouldn't even bother reading past the word gelding in an advertisement.

Geldings wind up my stallion, generally upset the mares, and make field arrangements awkward, it doesn't suit me to have geldings here.

Apart from Charley, and he doesn't count because the stallion likes him, and anyway he has his own custom made Charley paddock.
 
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