Old sayings about horses?

[only_me]

What old sayings do you know about horses?

2 whorls on a head is a sign of a good horse with a nice personality

A prophets thumb mark is a sign of a good horse

Know any more?

 

[Montyforever]

One white foot, buy him.
Two white feet, try him.
Three white feet, be on the sly.
Four white feet, pass him by.

 

[Singing Dawg]

Plagerised.....

Are four white feet bad? Or good? There are two different versions of 'white feet' rhymes, with different suggestions.
The two poems are:

One white foot, buy him.
Two white feet, try him.
Three white feet, be on the sly.
Four white feet, pass him by.

The other says just the opposite:

One white foot, keep him not a day,
Two white feet, send him far away,
Three white feet, sell him to a friend,
Four white feet, keep him to the end.

 

[Cedars]

Oh dear my poor little foalie would be passed by! But thats fine cos shes all mine

Does it count if they're coloured though....?

 

[NicoleS_007]

I just read that a prophets thumb mark ment the horse was blessed and if your thumb fits the print perfectly then your the horses true owner. Interesting stuff but i no longer believe My horse had two swirls on his head and he was a moody git and he was deffo not blessed with that thumb thing haha :rolleyes

 

[JenHunt]

No 'oof no 'orse

choose hunters with the face of a duchess and the @rse of a cook...

 

[lialls]

A horse with white flecks in his coat is ment to be lucky.

 

[Mrs B]

When I was a kid in Leicestershire, there was an old rogue of a dealer called Ron Tivey. (He once turned up at the yard driving his lorry with no boots on. He'd met someone who'd admired them, so he'd sold 'em.)

Anyhoo, he always said:

" There's only one guarantee with 'osses. They'll mek ya look daft".

 

[Three]

choose hunters with the face of a duchess and the @rse of a cook

I was taught this for cobs too!

And for breeding 'Mare for temperament, stallion for looks'

 

[Allover]

Big ears = good temperament

An ounce on the foot is a pound on the back!

 

[NicoleS_007]

When I was a kid in Leicestershire, there was an old rogue of a dealer called Ron Tivey. (He once turned up at the yard driving his lorry with no boots on. He'd met someone who'd admired them, so he'd sold 'em.)

Anyhoo, he always said:

" There's only one guarantee with 'osses. They'll mek ya look daft".

LOL this is deffo true

 

[BuBbleMooJim]

I like this one:
Tell a gelding, ask a stallion, put it to a mare for her consideration.

The white sock one I heard was: Four white socks keep him not a day, three white socks send him far away, two white socks give him to a friend, one white sock keep him to his end. As this is an old saying I assume its because it used to be thought pale hooves were weaker than dark ones, and the more socks a horse had, the more pale feet it had!

 

[HappyHorses:)]

I remember one that was something like 'no horse looks good at blackberry picking' think it indicated the changing of their coats

 

[Hels_Bells]

"If there's an accident waiting to happen a horse will find it"!

Will be checking to see if my thumb fits my boys thumb prints tomorrow morning first thing!

 

[only_me]

I heard that it was tell a gelding, ask a mare and discuss with a stallion!

 

[Oberon]

One white foot, buy a horse
Two white feet, try a horse
Three white feet, look well about them
Four white feet, do well without 'em.

 

[immoralorchid]

a good horse is never a bad colour

 

[Cuppatea]

white socks rhyme i know:
one, buy it,
two, try it,
three, suspect it,
four, reject it!

 

[wonkey_donkey]

Hansome is as hansome does . . . . . and never a true word said !!

 

[BuBbleMooJim]

I heard that it was tell a gelding, ask a mare and discuss with a stallion!

Try explaining that to my mare!!

 

[mulledwhine]

I dont know if this counts, but here goes......

There are two types of horse...

The wo your bugger

and

the go you bugger

 

[Crazydancer]

And for breeding 'Mare for temperament, stallion for looks'

Oh now that explains SOOO much!!!

I was told a rhyme about when your horse is rolling in the field, the number of times a horse rolls over on his other side, linked to health and length of life... but can't for the life of me remember what it was?? Anyone have any idea?

 

[SKY]

One white foot, buy him.
Two white feet, try him.
Three white feet, be on the sly.
Four white feet, pass him by.

i was going to say that, heard that from a john wayne film, love that saying.

 

[AndySpooner]

If you buy a horse by moonlight,

You'll have to sell him by candle light.

 

[spotty_pony]

No foot, no horse

 

[tallyho!]

I talked to a friend just the other day
who’s got lots of opinions and plenty to say.
We discussed what we both like to see in a horse
his requirements and mine were different of course?
He likes a clean throatlatch and a long skinny neck,
and prefers that their hocks are set close to the deck.
Short backs and hard feet and clean slopin’ shoulder,
and a gaskin that looks like it swallered a boulder.
He likes a short face and a big ol’soft eye,
and says these are the horses he’s likely to buy.
And when he’d completed his lengthy discourse,
on all of the attributes of the quality horse,
he asked my opinion, and where do I start?
And I said that I…just want horses with heart.
I said I want heart above all the other.
I don’t care if he’s Smart Little Lena’s full brother (a champion western cutting horse)
Or just how much money that his grandmother won,
or whether he’s roan, palomino or dun.
But give me a horse with some grit and some try,
and some heart and some guts and that’s one that I’ll buy.

 

[AndySpooner]

I talked to a friend just the other day
who’s got lots of opinions and plenty to say.
We discussed what we both like to see in a horse
his requirements and mine were different of course?
He likes a clean throatlatch and a long skinny neck,
and prefers that their hocks are set close to the deck.
Short backs and hard feet and clean slopin’ shoulder,
and a gaskin that looks like it swallered a boulder.
He likes a short face and a big ol’soft eye,
and says these are the horses he’s likely to buy.
And when he’d completed his lengthy discourse,
on all of the attributes of the quality horse,
he asked my opinion, and where do I start?
And I said that I…just want horses with heart.
I said I want heart above all the other.
I don’t care if he’s Smart Little Lena’s full brother (a champion western cutting horse)
Or just how much money that his grandmother won,
or whether he’s roan, palomino or dun.
But give me a horse with some grit and some try,
and some heart and some guts and that’s one that I’ll buy.

I really like this.

 

[sunshine19]

One white foot, ride him for your life.
Two white feet, give him to your wife.
Three white feet, give him to your man.
Four white feet, sell him if you can.

 

[Horseback Rider]

Beware beware the chestnut mare !

 

[tallyho!]

By the way, four white feet thing being a sign of weak feet - complete myth!!!! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!