What have yours all had in common?

[AShetlandBitMeOnce]

It occured to me tonight that of the 4 horses that I have owned over the years, every single one of them has cantered to the field gate when called which is a funny coincidence.

What do yours have in common, if anything?

 

[Rowreach]

Manners

 

[94lunagem]

Mine have all been ambivalent to me, like when I come out of the house it may or may not be for them. They have never bothered heading to the gate until called.

And manners is also an excellent answer @Rowreach. I expect the same from my Welsh A as I did my big sports horses.

And they’re geldings. I don’t do mares (sorry to any die hard mare lovers!).

 

[wiglet]

Mine have all been mares. They’ve all cost me a fortune in vet bills…

 

[SEL]

Eating.

I've never yet owned a poor doer.

 

[Gloi]

Sturdy and hairy. Mainly 13.0 - 14.2h and 1 - 3 yo when they came to me.

 

[Ratface]

Difficult to start with, but eventually all come right. Different periods of time to do so, though. Shortest time, six months, longest time, he's still a work in progress, many years on!

 

[AShetlandBitMeOnce]

And they’re geldings. I don’t do mares (sorry to any die hard mare lovers!).

That's another one, I have always been a gelding person! I have a soft spot for a couple mares at the yard but wouldn't buy one myself.

 

[Hormonal Filly]

Eating.

I've never yet owned a poor doer.

Me either.. people that have to feed their horses for weight gain is mind blowing. I guess we have the cheaper end of the scale, but muzzles.. they’re expensive!

 

[marmalade76]

Mine have been quite varied but they've all come to the gate when they know I'm at the yard. My YO told me that with one she would know I was on my way because he'd shout when he heard my car, by her reckoning when I was half a mile away.

 

[blitznbobs]

Nothing … seriously I have had Welsh cobs, hairy cobs, kwpns, shetlands, mares geldings and a stallion… the only thing I haven’t had is a true heavy horse (had an id) and a thoroughbred (but I have had an Anglo Arab)

I’m considering a lusitano as my next purchase (as long as I can find a bay one so my hubby doesn’t notice the extra!)

 

[AShetlandBitMeOnce]

Me either.. people that have to feed their horses for weight gain is mind blowing. I guess we have the cheaper end of the scale, but muzzles.. they’re expensive!

My 18.3hh warmblood eat a large rectangle £50 bale of hay, to himself, every 10-14 days - and he was turned out 10 hours a day in winter and overnight in summer.
He also had a stubbs scoop of grass chaff, a beaker of copra and another stubbs scoop of alfalfa pellets twice a day! It was certainly stress free as you just funnel into them whatever they will eat, but it definitely does add up.

 

[AShetlandBitMeOnce]

I’m considering a lusitano as my next purchase (as long as I can find a bay one so my hubby doesn’t notice the extra!)

It's funny you say that, I was looking at Spanish horses on HQ the other day, because why not, and this guy is just amazing!
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[GypsGal1718]

Willingness to try their best, couldn’t live without either of them

 

[ycbm]

It's very difficult to find a common denominator as I always buy different deliberately to get new experiences.
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[Peglo]

Mares. And I think that would be the only similarity in them. They’ve all been so different, although all brave in their own ways.

 

[ycbm]

It's funny you say that, I was looking at Spanish horses on HQ the other day, because why not, and this guy is just amazing!
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Noooo, they aren't supposed to be nearly 17 hands. Good luck keeping that sound.
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[AShetlandBitMeOnce]

Noooo, they aren't supposed to be nearly 17 hands. Good luck keeping that sound.
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You're quite right, Matt Harnacke has a thing for a big PREs and he has lameness issue after lameness issue from the bits I see on Facebook. He is a big hunk of a handsome stallion though you have to admit.

 

[The Xmas Furry]

Mine all pee before they come in for breakfast and tea, each one teaches the new incumbents, had same for years.

 

[ycbm]

Oh yes he's gorgeous

 

[Mrs. Jingle]

Had a good few and honestly can't say any of them had much in common. Agree with Rowreach though that manners were pretty much an essential with all of them, including the donkeys.

 

[Boulty]

All walking vet bills! Also all supposedly 14.2 (I suspect the Irish bog pony may have had to stand on his tiptoes!)

 

[Spotherisk]

By chance they both came from the same area of Cornwall, but apart from that they were both geldings, both skewbald, they were adored by me and loved me back, albeit in different ways.

 

[AShetlandBitMeOnce]

Mine all pee before they come in for breakfast and tea, each one teaches the new incumbents, had same for years.

Can I send Dex to you on holiday to learn the same? He will actively hold his wee until he's back in his stable from the field.

 

[blitznbobs]

It's funny you say that, I was looking at Spanish horses on HQ the other day, because why not, and this guy is just amazing!
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Seen him and if it was next year I’d be on my way to Scotland

 

[The Xmas Furry]

Can I send Dex to you on holiday to learn the same? He will actively hold his wee until he's back in his stable from the field.

Start a cue when he does, then transfer the same words before he comes in, worth a try

 

[blitznbobs]

Noooo, they aren't supposed to be nearly 17 hands. Good luck keeping that sound.
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My Grand Prix horse was 18 hands and sound as a pound til 26 …

 

[dottylottie]

both went lame within 2 months of purchase

 

[Muddywellies]

Manners

This

 

[pistolpete]

Another with walking vet bills. So much so that I don’t actually think I dare have another when the Highland goes which probably won’t be for ages anyway! I must have paid out £15k in 15 years! At least!