Poorly researched horse books... funny errors...

[metalmare]

In my classroom was a little 'cube' horse book full of cute pictures and dubious captions.

My favourite was the fact that the most desirable colour in an arab is apparently black with white 'hocks'... would love to see that

 

[rhino]

My favourite recent one was a book called 'The palomino haflinger's story'. Fine, except there is no such thing as a palomino haflinger

 

[Eluana]

I've been trying to find this book again for ages as it was such a hoot, can't remember anything about the title/author's name though. It wasn't really a horsey story, but one of the main side characters had a horse.
The most memorable error/wrong bit was that the author kept referring to 'picking the toad', a 'toad flick' every time the character went to the stables.
Took me forever to realise they actually meant frog/hoof and hoof pick

 

[cremedemonthe]

I've been trying to find this book again for ages as it was such a hoot, can't remember anything about the title/author's name though. It wasn't really a horsey story, but one of the main side characters had a horse.
The most memorable error/wrong bit was that the author kept referring to 'picking the toad', a 'toad flick' every time the character went to the stables.
Took me forever to realise they actually meant frog/hoof and hoof pick

lol!

 

[Niddlynoo]

Rhino - Everyone describes my Haffie as Palomino, really winds me up, but I'm sick of explaining it!

 

[horsey mad matt]

My favourite recent one was a book called 'The palomino haflinger's story'. Fine, except there is no such thing as a palomino haflinger

eh what colour are they then??

 

[Meowy Catkin]

Flaxen chestnut (with pangare in some cases).

 

[horsey mad matt]

Flaxen chestnut (with pangare in some cases).

palomino then!!

 

[Meowy Catkin]

palomino then!!

Gaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

*runs about screaming*

 

[Capriole]

*Joins in with Faracat *

 

[Meowy Catkin]

Yay! I'm not alone in my madness!

 

[Emilieu]

Oh god its happening all over the place today

 

[Paigeous]

When you have horses, you are never along in your madness

I have a friend with a Haflinger on my yard & she'd be going mental right now too

 

[Meowy Catkin]

So the question is... do horses cause madness or are mad people more likely to have horses?

 

[Devonshire dumpling]

We used to exercise a Haflinger, I just call it ginger!! hehe

 

[Piglet]

In one of the Jill books if I remember rightly Rapide or Black Boy was described as "pecking because he had lost a nail"!!!! Even as a kid, I still remember thinking that was strange, oh well back in the 1950s maybe that happened?