What EXACTLY would you call a "common" horse e.g. not a posh one?

I have always understood it to be the opposite of TB - so big plain head, thick hairy legs, maybe not very good overall conformation. Just not very nice! A TB can have a common head, for instance.
 
A common horse is hairy, clodhopping/unathletic, rafter-hipped, heavy-headed, goose-rumped, back at the knee, and suited to no known occupation. Doesn't make it a bad person, however :-)
 
Lol misunderstanding of the term common.
There are lot of TB's but they are not common... the term is used to decribe a more cold blooded/ cobby type of horse, even if it is a rare breed.
 
"Common" used to be the term for describing something resembling a carthorse, as opposed to the throughbred "quality" horse. Now a bit old fashioned, no?
 
My tb, looks very pretty but is a real minger !
Pees on her haylage, can somehow dung 360* then tramp it into every shaving.
Manages to lift her stable rug up and rub said dung into her quarters nearly every night ....... Classy NOT
 
What they use to call cold blooded. Shires, Clysdales, ect anything that pulled a cart, carriage, plough.Vanners and most of the German/dutch were bred for carriage work. Makes you think.;);););)
 
Every one calls my warmblood a 'posh' horse. I think it's because he's naturally always shiny, rarely dirty, very smart looking. Plus he will not walk through mud. And refuses to pee if it's going to splash on his legs at all! Haha!
 
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I guess my old grey Percheron mare would qualify as "Common".
She is Amish bred, and they are certainly not "Posh" :)

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My new horse definitely is a different story.

He is a Part Bred Cleveland Bay, registered with the Cleveland Bay Horse Society which has HRM Elizabeth II as patron. ( I didn't find that out until after I had bought him.) :D
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Graureiter said:
I guess my old grey Percheron mare would qualify as "Common".
She is Amish bred, and they are certainly not "Posh" :)

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My new horse definitely is a different story.

He is a Part Bred Cleveland Bay, registered with the Cleveland Bay Horse Society which has HRM Elizabeth II as patron. ( I didn't find that out until after I had bought him.) :D
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Handsome horse, and I love your name - witty :) You've changed your helmet style! I like the barn design too :D
 
My first horse was a hunter, a smart bay cob, but the farmer next door bred eventers which had a lot of quality ie TB in them, so mine was "common" in that he did not show any strong TB characteristics, but he was not a vanner type, and had less hair on fetlocks than my current standardbred which has a lot of quality, ie pretty much 50 percent TB.
To me I look at the head and also the bone:
plain head and round bone=common
nice head and good flat bone=quality
 
My warmbloods seem to be very common! The poop and pee nearly everywhere, fart like blowholes, are only interested in food, one of them resembles a sleuth in the school, the love a good bum scratch ...
 
Thats a very old term from travellers who used to breed from anything.

Horses they term look common not necessarily are common.

the finer one are not called common as they are blood horses or have a lot of blood in them.

All horse are lovely in my opinion. And its not how they look its what they bring into your life. Like for example my friend go this "common" pony who went and won POY and bet all the better finer bred ponies. She was of unknown breeding and the best jumper i have ever seen.
 
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