Showing with a blue eye..

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Our youngster is coming on leaps and bounds and I'd really like to take her out to a few showing shows for experience. We did take her out inhand as a 2 year old but this will be her first ridden experience (she is 4 this year). She is absolutely cracking in my eyes, well put together, moves well, lovely nature but the problem being she has one blue eye.

How much will this affect us in the show ring? Whilst I'm not bothered about winning I really don't want to be laughed out of the ring either!! So I'd welcome any comments from showing peeps.

The classes I am looking at are ridden LW cob under 155cm and perhaps ridden MW small hunter...She's 15.1hh at the moment without shoes and although still very green she's willing and has just started cantering.

This is her!
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And a trotting pic
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I know she's not going to win a beauty contest (
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) but can / does good conformation, movement and temp. overcome a bit of ugliness?!
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Thanks in advance
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Keep her in cob classes (got to hog
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) I've seen cobs with blue eyes in ring, she isn't a small hunter

p.s she will have to be gross fat to compete with the cobs I have seen out so far...
 
I think that she's lovely! We've just been talking about starting a stud and calling it The Blue Eyed Boy Stud after our wonderhorse little cob who has one blue eye. You might be interested, given her colouring, in the thread in Breeding on Dilute Genes and More Genetics ... the whole piece about which colour genes are most likely to produce blue eyes is fascinating. Our boy is Clydesdale X, Blue Blagdon colouring, and has one blue eye. (His trainer used to say that was his naughty eye)
We saw the most gorgeous colt foal at Zangersheide this year which I think was going to be sold for a song as it had a blue eye - maybe we should start our own "Blue Eyed Horse Society"??
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Some judges will mind the blue eye, some won't. They tend to be more acceptable in ponies and coloured horses.

It's difficult to categorise her from those photos - she looks too cobby for small hunters (they don't have different weights in the smalls), and too long legged for a cob (although when she matures and deepens through, this will probably be her class. If she were mine I'd try a bit of both and see what judges suggest.
 
I have a gorgeous little grey mare, welsh sec A type, with one blue eye (in siggie showing brown eye!). We only do unaffiliated shows but she has cleaned up in all her classes - although I did read somewhere that a blue eye wasn't acceptable in registered classes? It helps if the blue eye is on the outside of the ring when they go around clockwise as I just don't think some dozy judges notice in the line up! give it a go and just have fun, I think your girl is super and will dazzle anyway!
 
MY mare has one blue eye and always in the ribbons when shown in coloured or cob classes, so don't think it will make any difference.

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