What EXACTLY would you all call a 'Posh' horse?

When I was young and riding in the States we had a proper 'posh' horse. She was known as 'The Duchess' to all who knew her. She was big and black and shiny, and riding her was like sailing on a galleon, you would just glide along, she had all the buttons and would give you 'exactly' what you asked for, whether you knew you had asked for it or not.

She would literally sneer down her nose at ponies and those godawful quarter horses...why any horse would demean itself chasing cattle was beyond her. (her dirty secret was that somewhere in the depths of her pedigree there was a bit of QH). She would baulk and refuse to go if you asked her to ride alongside a pony. At one infamous show, she was asked to demean herself by being entered in a pleasure horse class, which had both english and western horses/ponies in it. When we finally succeeded in getting her in the ring with them she decided the only way to get through it was to do it as fast as possible, so switched gears from 'galleon' to 'jet boat' and lapped every other competitor!

Oh, and she would never, ever, ever dream of farting! (not in public anyway!)
 
catkin said:
That's mine then, and she's got a pedigree longer than your arm......QUOTE]

Don't we all? :D It's just that half the time we don't know what it is ;)

Has she got a proper Welsh name? Sometimes I have to laugh when non-Welsh speaking commentators try to get their mouths around some names, I know I couldn't, Cwmllynfell Cariad is an easy one;)...and as for the Irish ones :(
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Kenzo said:
But I did say state a hack (which to me) is a is a bigger version of a show pony! :D there quite posh looking, usually ridden by those that have out grown their show ponies.
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But Nitty is my show hack ( or at least will be if her hock goes down) and I promise you she is anything but posh. She is a hairy yack which likes to use it's own poo as a pillow!!

It is because I grew out of my show ponies though :D
 
Why is everyone skirting around the bush??

A posh horse is what I would call well bred and well kept i.e. a nice Throughbred (not a square horrible angular one), an Arab, any well bred Hunting/Blood Sport Horse, definitely an Andalusian or any Spanish horse all a-glimmer with a waterfall-mane... a Warmblood in other words. You can tell a well bred horse apart from one that isn't even if it is covered in mud IMO by how it moves. I think tall horses exude class and fine smaller horses too.

Doesn't mean to say there aren't any distinguished "common" horses.. just the traditional view of posh is, etched in my mind, along the lines described above.
 
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