Mostly white

Going back to original question - it is possible that predominantly white coloureds are less popular because they are such a ******* to keep clean? (Guess what I have spent the last couple of hours doing!!!!)
 
Mine is predominantly white with two blue eyes so not popular in the show ring but I think she stunning
 
Cowpony said:
How could anybody not love this:
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Drools. Just beautiful.

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Cowpony said:
This shows her blue eye (sorry if the picture is big, I don't know how to resize it!
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Always love a blue eye . . . honestly, if you love her, why do you care what other people think?

My boy is a fleabitten grey with HUGE ears (we call him the grey donkey) . . . I think he's the most beautiful thing on four legs (aside from my dogs) and I couldn't give a stuff what anyone else thinks of him.

Anyone who thinks your mare is "less than" because she has too much white needs to a) remember their manners; b) mind their own business; and c) get to SpecSavers :).

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My sister's coloured was like that - one side of the face white with eyeliner, and the other black, but with no blue eye. I think it's very striking, but having watched my sis keeping him clean I'd not be having any amount of white - I wouldn't even have a grey!! I'll stick to my nice bays with no to minimal white...
 
Nessa4 said:
Going back to original question - it is possible that predominantly white coloureds are less popular because they are such a ******* to keep clean? (Guess what I have spent the last couple of hours doing!!!!)
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haha definitely we have a couple at work lovely horses but forever trying to get back to their bay/chestnut roots
 
My boy is piebald and has hardly any black patches but he is even on either side. He has a stunning head though which is mainly black with a unusual white wonky snip up one side, and he also has blue eyes. He also has a white tail with a strip of black in the centre.

I'm not a fan of others I've seen that are mainly white as they tend to be typical cobby looking types, nothing special. Also there seems to be a common thing with these types that they all have slight black head with big white wide blazes.

I sound really bad for saying that but there's too many these days that are all badly bred and look the same. I like a coloured to stand out and have something different about it.

ETa- OP your girl is very pretty :)
 
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My 15hh coloured cob is mainly white...he is called Patch and only has a black patch for his ears (top of head) and on both flanks...he is gorgeous and had people say "well he won't do well in the show ring not well marked" but surely it should also be about conformation as well as markings??? Showing people do correct me?!?!
 
Thanks Polarskye. I really didn't ask the original question because I care what others think, I was just interested because I felt others seemed to know something I didn't (OK, before anybody else says it, there's LOTS others know that I don't :D). But it seems from the comments here that it's just a personal taste thing, which is fine.

And yes, my first horse was a bay and I didn't know how lucky I was not having to deal with stable stains and ground in mud. As I said on another thread on here, grey = white in anybody else's language. Unless it's just come in from the field. Then it's brown. Or green. :D
 
TheOrangeOne said:
My 15hh coloured cob is mainly white...he is called Patch and only has a black patch for his ears (top of head) and on both flanks...he is gorgeous and had people say "well he won't do well in the show ring not well marked" but surely it should also be about conformation as well as markings??? Showing people do correct me?!?!
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Depends on level of show and judge etc , conformation should be taken into account but I find these days , certainly at local level , people just go for the best marked. I remember being up against a KWPN horse that had the most horrific leg conformation and it got placed above me despite my boy having impeccable manners and working well. Also the same at a different show , I got put below a horse who's legs were something else from behind as it walked....
 
My only regret about her colouring is that we don't tend to do well in WHP classes because she isn't a hunter type, but we both love doing it so we'll carry on, and if we get the occasional place that's a bonus.
 
Mines bay and white, not tons of white and thankfully a black tail, although he does have white legs. Would I have bought him if he was mainly white? No! I do like coloureds, but I like a nice bright bay or orange chestnut at least as much. I def wouldnt have signed up for a mainly white horse, I just dont like the way they look. Its personal preference :) Although most of the mainly white coloureds I have see are porly bred gypsy cobs, but that might just be the area I'm from :)
 
I have a blue and white cob, with very minimal blue! He is as white as snow everywhere else and have to be very careful when we clip as is so pink skinned, he can resemble a piglet if clipped too close!!!!

I do wonder if the stigma comes from a. being coloured (percieved by some as common) and b. that they are a b**ger to keep clean. However my lad lives out and tbh it is only ever his lower limbs that need to kept on top off, and we hunt him too. I just keep him well rugged over the winter mnths, and use a fly sheet in the summer ones.

There are also some people that do not like 'blue' eyes and must admit I am one of them. My lad does not have them but may have put me off viewing him - more fool me though as would have missed out on a cracking pony.
 
My lad is the type described by a PP- Gypsy cob type, mainly white but with a black head and big white blaze....

Not usually my type at all. I have had him 6 months tomorrow. I went out looking for ideally a bay native type... Never thought i would have a coloured cob. BUT i now think he is the most handsome thing on four legs and he is an absolute super star and worth every single minute I spend scrubbing poo stains. ;)
 
I think some coloureds can be 'unfortunately' marked ie. the white making the horses conformation appear wonky but the only thing that would put me off now is the cleaning :P but like they say a good horse is never a bad colour. I do find it confusing that they are seen as common as surely bays and chestnuts are more 'common' really as there is more of them maybe it's me being facetious, pretty sure there are oil paintings of kings and generals riding coloureds :P
 
At the riding school where I have lessons somebody once refused to ride a lovely coloured horse which had been allocated to her, saying she wasn't going to ride that "common coloured horse"!:rolleyes3: More fool her, because the horse in question was a lovely ride.
 
As the saying goes, No good horse is a bad colour.
I think objection to a lot of white is because of sunburn, cracked heels, mud fever bathing to keep clean.
Same applies to greys and white socks on arabs etc
 
Having bred coloureds I know mainly white foals were harder to sell- and other studs find the same. I do think its because of the dirt !
Having shown and judged coloureds also, the markings should never be the cause of a poor placing - conformation musrt come first, as it would be mad to reward badly put together horses! Some markings do present optical illusions , and it does seem easier to assess the conformation with large regular patches! Sorry to hear above that pretty nmarkings beat good conformation - but thats often the trouble with local shows - any Joe Bloggs gets to judge! Try a BSPA or CHAPS class.
ps your horse has a lovely face
 
I'm not keen on minimally marked coloureds simply because they don't please me aesthetically :o
I don't like white extending over the eye/s and ideally like 50/50 colour to white with a dark head....good job that's what I have lol :D
 
My almost 3-year old bay tobiano is mostly white, with perfectly symmetrical bay bits and a mostly bay head. He's a NIGHTMARE to keep clean (I honestly think this is what puts a lot of people off) but drop-dead gorgeous when he is (I may be a wee bit biased). First time my old school, not-keen-on-coloureds, vet met him, he left muttering "he's a little b****r but I have to say, he is cute"! :D
 
Everyone was always very complimentary about my gelding Chico. He definitely stood out :)

I bed on pellets so never had too much trouble keeping him clean. Have to say when he was scrubbed up for a show he looked amazing!


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My chap is mostly white and I do find he gets a 'marmite' reaction at shows - sometimes he wins, sometimes he's last, and we have heard comments about how 'that one shouldn't be in this class, it's not even coloured' and the like. I think he's stunning though so don't care what they think!

 
I also come from the generation where coloured horses were generally work horses of some description. They were rarely elegant. Breeding has changed a lot of that and coloured horses can be seen in many types of horses nowadays. I don't care for coloureds myself although I do own some. The ones who have been mainly white are much more difficult to sell than those mainly solid coloured. All except from my registered white TB filly that I bred, who because she was relatively rare at the time, did sell for serious money.

My preference has historically always been a solid bay with minimal white markings however as time passes I'm quite open to solids with nice sabino markings.
 
forever broke said:
My chap is mostly white and I do find he gets a 'marmite' reaction at shows - sometimes he wins, sometimes he's last, and we have heard comments about how 'that one shouldn't be in this class, it's not even coloured' and the like. I think he's stunning though so don't care what they think!

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He's gorgeous! Love his eyes, and you have got him so white!
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My girl is mostly white. One and a half blue eyes as well so lots of people probably don't like her for those reasons, but i think she's beautiful :D

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Her more colourful side :)

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