Right Horse, Wrong Colour????

[OwnedbyJoe]

I hate dilutes...
Daughter's long term free lease mare is a cremello - she fell into our lap and is a SUPERB kids' pony who has given my daughter the sort of start to her riding that you can only dream of. I still think she's fugly but she will die on our property as we could never let her go after all she has done for us.
I went to look at my current gelding without even asking what colour he was: turned out to be a palomino! NEVER thought I'd buy one. But everything else was right, so home he came. Worst thing about owning a pally is all the people asking "Aww, have you always wanted a palomino??" Um, no, partial to bays actually! He is universally known in the endurance riding circles I mix in as the "Barbie Princess pony".

 

[MS123]

No horse is a bad colour.

Apart from a grey

 

[eahotson]

Wanted something uber sensible to help restore my shattered nerve.Did NOT want a welsh cob because of the reputation they can have.Guess what I ended up with? And he is soooo sensible.

 

[YasandCrystal]

I can honestly say that I have never bought or discounted a horse on colour. I have had a good variety of shapes and colours todate, greys, a dun, a couple of chestnuts, a piebald, a skewbald, a black, a couple of bays and a spotty. Never had a cremello (which i really like) or a palomino.

 

[YasandCrystal]

I bought a grey horse. I still think people who buy grey horses are mad because THEY NEVER LOOK CLEAN.

I agree with this.
This was Crystal whom I sadly lost last year after a roll in our crag manege.

 

[montanna]

After getting up at 6am to fully bath my 14.2hh in the freezing cold midwinter before a show, I will safely say I will NEVER have a grey again!

 

[eahotson]

Handsome is as handsome does has been said to me a fair few times.I used to go riding in this little trecking yard (but we used to do some fast rides).I had seen adults ride Sammy, coloured, built like a brick sh#t house.Even his own mother would have said he was common and he was only about 13.2.One day they offered me a ride.I REALLY didn,t want to.They said Sammy is fun.Oh yeah I thought.The alternatives were not attractive to me either though so reluctantly I climbed aboard.He was FANTASTIC.Not a show jumping or dressage star but for a safe, brave but active hack he took some beating.He was the best looking horse in the world to me after that.

 

[StormyGale]

Thanks everyone yes he is home with me now and his character is really coming out hopefully start of a fantastic new match. Thanks for replies I know it's silly but just had to know I wasn't the only one to think it lol sounds like everyone here has had a 'not what I wasllooking for horse' and they've turned out just great so looking forwsrd to my future posts too will get some photos of the chap too so u can actuallythe horse in question too lol thanks guys

 

[Foxy O]

I went looking for a safe coloured cob and ended up with a chestnut with four white socks ISH ex-eventer he is amazing

 

[Bobbly]

Having had a white grey horse years ago I swore never to have another and especially a baby grey.........and bought a baby greysoonwentwhiteatfour connemara! Now after deciding that I fancied a small Irish Draught gelding if I could find one, I bought a baby coloured WBx ID/TB mare! There's logic for you!

 

[Coldfeet!]

Mine is definitely not the chestnut I wanted!

 

[LisaS]

Apart from a grey

I first got the horse I wanted, he was a coloured ISH and extremely handsome, but ended up frightening me, so hubby now rides him.

I now have a ex Show Cob, safe as houses, love him to bits but he is Grey ! Lovely to look at but a ****** to keep clean, it's a heartbreaking colour to own at times, especially when their main aim in life is to roll in poo, but wouldn't swop him for the world !

 

[claribella]

I knew exactly what I wanted in my head, a nice forward going cob gelding pref black or piebald, that would look after me. It was going to be my first horse so I wanted something safe. I ended up buying a chestnut arab mare! You should have seen some people face when I told them I decided on! Weve never looked back! She is just the most giving and forgiving horse ever and shes taught me so much and I don't regret bringing her home with me at all

 

[Milliepony]

We went out looking for a bay gelding and came home with a coloured ISH mare... she's turned out to be our horse of a lifetime - beautiful inside and out

 

[RunToEarth]

I was tricked into looking at my last horse because my friend said he was black. He was coloured and I did not like the look of him, I really had a dislike of anything coloured. I tried him and he jumped me out of the arena - paid the man his money and owned him 7 years - he took me from ponyclub to Hickstead, and he is now with someone else who hated coloureds but loved to jump.

I am now looking for another grey, I'm not discounting other colours, but ideally it will be grey.

 

[Megibo]

8 years ago when my mum was taking us first pony hunting (she had been out of horses 30 odd years!) she was specific in that she wasn't going to get us anything young/green, mare and certainly not a welsh. So guess what we came home with... Still got her now and wouldn't part with her for the world! Hoping she'll produce me a nice filly in 2015, I actually WANT a bay filly so whats the betting I get a ginger colt?!

I also swore I'd never have a tb, just taken a 16 year old chestnut tb mare on loan! Worked with her for 2 years beforehand though. Not using to having such a diva and feeding so much/rugging as I deal with natives and cobs but there you go !

 

[EstherYoung]

I wanted (had I been looking) a minimally marked bay. For practical reasons rather than anything else - pink skin on the legs can be VERY annoying and prone to mud fever and pink skin on the head can be VERY annoying and prone to sunburn.

I ended up with a baby Wolfie, who has four massive white socks and a big white head with a big pink nose and pink eyebrows and cheekbones. And he's coloured.

He is bay and white though, and apart from the legs and face is quite minimally marked. I always think of him as a solid bay and have to double take when people start talking about 'my little coloured chap'.

He does have the cutest white fluttery eyelashes though....

Our others are all grey. We must be fools.

 

[Dubsie]

We just bought a mare for my daughter. Only wanted a gelding as we have 2 already, the chap that told us about her thought she was a he, but it didn't matter what colour or sex, the smile on daughter's face sold her to us. Fortunately she isn't grey.

However I just had someone ask me 'when the little (chestnut) one gets as big as that big one will he be the same colour?' (The chestnut is 13.2 and 23 years young, the one in the middle height-wise is a 10 year old 14h - he's chunky and a bright bay, she's 16.1 and a 6 year old dark bay!)

 

[Dollysox]

I went looking for something bay, about 15.2 or thereabouts, and I was NEVER going to buy a grey after seeing all the work my friend had to put into her grey show pony. And I was probably going to look for a calm, sensible gelding.

I ended up with a 16.3 hh, grey mare with several neuroses and only two brain cells, one of which usually went missing. But I love her to bits and although things haven't turned out how I planned and due to injury we weren't able to do what we wanted to do, I still don't regret buying her.

 

[Alchemy]

I went to look at what i thought was an absolutly ideal horse for me, advert read well rang up spoke to the woman further went down to visit she told me which stable he was in and i had a surprise when i looked in expecting to see a big bay horse when there stood this 16.2 chestnut gelding...!! not what i was expecting but he was so right for me a few trips later i bought him 8 years later i love my chestnut boy to bits and i shouldnt have been disappointed in his colour!! Never judge a horse by its colour!!