Roman noses

[zoesophie]

Thoughts please....

Love them
Hate them
Are a sign of ban conformation
Make horses look ugly/cute
Other

Personally I love them as my chap has one

 

[jozzie789]

wellllllllll I dont think it takes much to work out that I love them a bit too much!! But then I may be a bit biased

 

[Kal]

I don't worry too much about looks as i don't do showing. So as long as it can do the job (in my case jump) then i wouldn't mine if it was a cow x donkey.

We've had a couple wih roman noses before and they always seem genuine.

 

[zoesophie]

hehe twas you who prompted this post my dear

I knew I could count on your vote of approval

 

[zoesophie]

Kal - would I be marked down then in the show ring due to a roman nose?

 

[SSM]

I LOVE LOVE LOVE Roman noses, especially Cleveland Bay ones!!

For the showring I would suggest a really wide hunter noseband to break the face up a bit.

 

[Kal]

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Kal - would I be marked down then in the show ring due to a roman nose?

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You shouldn't do but some judges may not like it. Same with anything in showing really, just depends what kind of judge you get.

 

[tinker512]

On the right horse...love them on a shire, but dislike it when you see an ID with a huge roman nose.

Oddest sight is a horse with a roman nose, and then a weedy neck with no topline...looks like a trayanasorous rex!!

 

[Dressagebabe]

We have one on our yard, he is nickname by the liveries as Fugly! as he is seriously F***ing ugly, huge head, huge ears and huge roman nose, his owner brought some of her friends to see him and they just laughed at him and said what made you buy that!! One of them is a Showing Judge so I think some of them would put you at the back of the line up if they have a pet hate for a roman nose.

 

[horsey1992devon]

I don't mind them at all, they look incredibly smart on some horses

 

[GoJo]

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On the right horse...love them on a shire, but dislike it when you see an ID with a huge roman nose.

Oddest sight is a horse with a roman nose, and then a weedy neck with no topline...looks like a trayanasorous rex!!

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agree with this, looks gorgeous if the rest of the horse is in propotion with its nose - if not then just looks wrong!!!!

 

[Darkly_Dreaming_Dex]

i was once placed reserve champion show cob because the judge said my cob's head was too pretty and she preferred the "more workmanlike roman nosed head of the other cob" i like roman noses but WTF??

 

[RunToEarth]

I'm not too fussed about them but i'd rather not have them, I do think they are a teeny bit ugly.
Saying that, two of our big hunters have roman noses, and I thought they were both very hansome, wouldn't you agree?
Herc:

And Monters

 

[Darkly_Dreaming_Dex]

OMG Monters is absolutely gorgeous!

 

[Hovis_and_SidsMum]

Lord you'd better lock up those horses - I know a man who would happliy come and kidnap them!

 

[RunToEarth]

Thankyou, he is the most fantastic horse ever, sadly he is in a new home now, I had more horses than time, he is the one I miss most, he is such a super horse

 

[zoesophie]

Ok so what do you guys think about my chap and his large schnozer

Is he fugly

and showing off his big ears after surgery

 

[RunToEarth]

He is lovely DB!! I love his big ears, they are so cute!!

 

[zoesophie]

Nah fanx

I love him to pieces

 

[Theresa_F]

I don't mind them on the right horse - ie big and chunky like a heavy should have. That said, shires have them and clydes should not.

How you could you resist this big pink nose?

Actually at the time I very much could as it was covered in molasses

 

[zoesophie]

Ah how cute - bet you get through a lot of suntan lotion

I know I do!

 

[Theresa_F]

Nope - just pop on the cashal crusader with the long nose - both my boys have very pink noses that are kept in perfect kissing condition with these on during the summer.

Chancer has a black kiss spot on his nose which he offers to have kissed - he can be very cute at times.

 

[zoesophie]

Ah

My chap hates his big lugs being touched and is petrified of velcro

so I doubt Id be able to get one of those on him - wish I could though

 

[Madam_max]

Also in PG. My Mum's (Kildalton) old mare-Molly

 

[GinaB]

I loooooooooove him DB

But does those big lugs slow him down?

Only j/k he's gorge

 

[zoesophie]

thanks

they are not very aerodynamic (sp?) are they - thankfully theres not much call for us to go fast these days

 

[zoesophie]

Ah shes cute too - is that you in the pic

 

[Madam_max]

She's lovely. I do wonder where she is now. No that's a friend and that was a few years ago too.

 

[bithiah]

I love them on chunkers

 

[allijudd]

our big boy..convieniently called romanesque..(due to the size of his snoz......)