Roman Noses!!

[CassTheCob]

Hello everyone! Was wondering if Roman noses in anyway affect the horse, good or bad, and what people's opinions on them are. Also if you've got a horse with a Roman nose, drop a photo below as well as I love them!! Thanks in advance ! 😄

 

[Red-1]

Roman noses = no problems whatsoever.

Usually mean a more cold blooded horse.

No photos to hand atm.

 

[Archangel]

I really like Roman noses, every horse I have known with a Roman nose has been worth their weight in gold.

 

[rowan666]

ah I love them!, i always think they make a horse look very wise, I'll try and find a pic of my filly that shows hers although it is only very slight

 

[Clodagh]

I love a Roman Nose.

 

[Orca]

Mine has a slightly convex head, which gives her a slight roman look. I love it and I love proper romans too. To me, it makes a horse look kind - probably to do with the cold bloodedness which Red mentions

 

[Pie's mum]

My boy has a Roman nose and a heart of gold!

 

[dibbin]

My sister's boy has a bit of a Roman nose, I wind her up and say it makes him look like a sock puppet. I do think they look good on a big solid horse (which he is). I've got a photo somewhere that shows it quite well. He's a lovely big thing.

*toddles off to trawl photobucket*

 

[LHIS]

I love a Roman nose too. A horse I used to loan had one, she was a Shire X and had a lovely nature. I'm the owner of my own Roman nose too lol.

 

[glamourpuss]

A Roman nose on a good solid animal makes me think they are an honest, kind type. There is nothing scientific to back up but seems to have run true for me so far.

 

[dibbin]

Found it!

 

[Micropony]

My share horse had a roman nose. He was TB (clean bred) and had evented to a high level, I think his owner said he'd been round Badminton in his day with a previous owner. I couldn't ride either side of him in the school (nothing nasty, just couldn't find the right buttons), but to hack he was awesome - great fun and a complete gentleman.

They moved away so I haven't seen him for ages, but he must be 25 now and is still in work.

 

[Embo]

My B has a bit of a Roman nose, and he's a handsome devil! I like them

 

[Elf On A Shelf]

I am in the minority then as I don't like them lol! I love pretty heads. Even all of our Shetlands have lovely heads and not bucket heads!

 

[Meowy Catkin]

I'd quite like to have the Lusitano (IIRC) that a member on here got as a youngster, that has a roman nose. She's lovely, really baroque looking and would make a fab contrast with old seahorse head.

 

[pennandh]

I like a baroque profile on, say, a cob or a hunter, but I tend to think a true Roman nose (that is, a really convex profile) looks out of place on anything lighter than an actual cart/plough-horse. In fairness, I have a similar view regarding dished faces (a slight dish is lovely on a hack or riding horse type, or on finer-built ponies, but really dished faces belong on Arabs and nowt else).

I mean, I have no real scientific basis for this opinion, I just like the head to match the rest of the animal it's attached to, if you see what I mean. Same way that I like small, fluffy ears on a pony and large, fine ears (think Cleveland Bay ears) on a large, well-built horse (as a side-note, I define 'large' in this case as 16.2hh or thereabouts - I'm always a little cautious of very tall horses, because they're hard to get onto, painful on the knees to get off from, and they don't live as long as smaller ones because horses aren't really designed to get that big in the first place and it's hard work on their hearts).

 

[Orca]

Mine has a slightly convex head, which gives her a slight roman look. I love it and I love proper romans too. To me, it makes a horse look kind - probably to do with the cold bloodedness which Red mentions

...and here she is. She is indeed capable of pulling a cart or three

(Excuse the apparent tightness of her noseband - we were fiddling with buckles while fitting her for a Dually )

 

[LHIS]

...and here she is. She is indeed capable of pulling a cart or three

(Excuse the apparent tightness of her noseband - we were fiddling with buckles while fitting her for a Dually )

She's so pretty! Lovely nose
(Dually looks fine to me - I've been taught it's supposed to be reasonably snug and sit at end of cheek bone which it looks like it is)

 

[Orca]

She's so pretty! Lovely nose
(Dually looks fine to me - I've been taught it's supposed to be reasonably snug and sit at end of cheek bone which it looks like it is)

Naw, thank you
(I haven't used one before - thank you for your tips )

 

[Enfys]

Quick search produced this, some look beyond roman and heading towards disfigurement.

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q...an+nose+horse&qpvt=roman+nose+horse&FORM=IGRE

 

[Charlie007]

I had a id x Tb who had a slight roman nose. Best horse ever x

 

[VikingSong]

I quite like roman noses, so long as they're not overly pronounced and the horse is muscular with a good neck.

 

[Regandal]

Found it!

Handsome horse!

 

[Orca]

Quick search produced this, some look beyond roman and heading towards disfigurement.

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q...an+nose+horse&qpvt=roman+nose+horse&FORM=IGRE

I was talking with someone at the yard today about the polar opposite - dished to the point it must surely cause internal problems? Such a shame when we breed these things to extremes (if that is the case with hyper accentuated romans or convex skulls).

 

[rowan666]

My luso had a lovely head

My filly, and before anybody mentions how grossly overweight she is, this is the way I bought her and she has since lost weight and been hogged but I don't have any recent propper side views that show her head

ETD found this of her from last summer

 

[Meowy Catkin]

I was talking with someone at the yard today about the polar opposite - dished to the point it must surely cause internal problems? Such a shame when we breed these things to extremes (if that is the case with hyper accentuated romans or convex skulls).

I have a really dish headed horse (the aforementioned seahorse head) and he has no issues at all. Breathing is top notch and no tooth trouble either. He'd be a fabulous endurance horse if he had a rider that was up to it. There was a lot of fuss a while back about an arab mare with a congenital deformity to her skull that made her have a super dished profile, but it caused her no health issues. She didn't pass the issue onto her foals.

I personally feel that while we still breed horses to be functioning athletes, then variations of skull shape aren't really that important. If the time comes where it starts to cause issues for breathing or eating, then that is a catastrophe that I hope never occurs.

 

[Casey76]

There are some Lusos now, who have such a convex profile, it makes you wonder if it affects their sight :/

 

[dibbin]

Handsome horse!

He's gorgeous, my poor wee thing's got a complex because it's always his big brother that gets commented on when we're out!

ETA - the Roman nose definitely matches the rest of him ...

 

[Rollin]

I have a really dish headed horse (the aforementioned seahorse head) and he has no issues at all. Breathing is top notch and no tooth trouble either. He'd be a fabulous endurance horse if he had a rider that was up to it. There was a lot of fuss a while back about an arab mare with a congenital deformity to her skull that made her have a super dished profile, but it caused her no health issues. She didn't pass the issue onto her foals.

I personally feel that while we still breed horses to be functioning athletes, then variations of skull shape aren't really that important. If the time comes where it starts to cause issues for breathing or eating, then that is a catastrophe that I hope never occurs.

Somewhere I read that Arabians are not so much dished as domed!! The domed forehead allows for a decent sized brain and therefore this dish is somewhat exagerated.

 

[Orca]

I have a really dish headed horse (the aforementioned seahorse head) and he has no issues at all. Breathing is top notch and no tooth trouble either. He'd be a fabulous endurance horse if he had a rider that was up to it. There was a lot of fuss a while back about an arab mare with a congenital deformity to her skull that made her have a super dished profile, but it caused her no health issues. She didn't pass the issue onto her foals.

I personally feel that while we still breed horses to be functioning athletes, then variations of skull shape aren't really that important. If the time comes where it starts to cause issues for breathing or eating, then that is a catastrophe that I hope never occurs.

Thank you for answering my question ��.