Will solid colour horses come back into fashion?

Yeah i think it will come back round to have solids as the most popular, I like coloureds don't get me wrong, my old horse was an appy! But god he was hard to keep clean! I love the fact I can make Leo shiny!! (He's a bay) :D
 
I dont like coloureds. Never have, dont really know why. Always loved really bright bays but you never used to see them around. Bought one myself in 2009 and now they are everywhere, well in Cornwall they are :D
 
I like blacks, Duns and a really good blue roan but have ended up with piebalds. I could never rule a horse out just because of colour - the right horse is the right horse
 
After struggling to get black mud off a ginger horse I will be searching for a colour which is the nearest colour match to the soil in the field. Mud monster!
 
After my coloured came in completely black this morning I can safely say yes, solids will be back in fashion for me. I never really wanted a coloured anyway it was her temperament I fell in love with. Next time though I'm going for black
 
Have ridden nothing but coloureds since 1986- and had one in the early 70s. All skewbalds - dont like pies - how odd is that?! Only horses we had that have been non coloureds have been bred by ourselves -sometimes from 2 coloured parents! Had many years showing/breeding/competiing these beautiful animals
Many,many rubbishy coloureds still being bred despite recession - some homozygous colt of dubious looks and breeding put in with mares also of zero qulaity. Usually said colt owners think coloureds have a premium price because of fashion - NOT TRUE. Horse has to be good whatever colour. Stopped breeding [ graded stallions,good mares] 5 years ago- just not worth it, as market flooded with substandard youngsters.I notice lots of small coloured studs giving up - leaving the marketplace full of badly bred animals Lots of fields of rubbish coloureds you see at the moment have no future- no wonder the charities are full.
 
I didn't want a coloured didn't go looking for a coloured but ended up with one, was Looking for a new horse popped into local riding stables to see what they had for sale, and ended up a week later trying a coloured rode him once and never wanted to get offf so home he came.
I would not discount a horse on it colour I have preferences but that's all they are for me its a case of if they are the right horse it's the right horse no matter.
 
I don't mind on colouring, but would love another cremello out of cremello broodie. She'd be my perfect horse if younger.
Slightly annoying as it will be a palomino out of her and never wanted a 'barbie pony' purely from annoying people not looking past the colouring, other than that I don't mind, but she'll breed my next.

I never had an interest in greys until my share mare, now colour doesn't come into it. The 'look' of a horse does though. I tend to know instantly whether I'll like a horse regardless of colouring/build/physical looks.
 
lhotse said:
I prefer solid colours, but if the horse was the right one, then it wouldn't put me off. I do however dislike a lot of coloured cobs, it seems that many nowadays have been poorly bred just for colour, and they have awful conformation. A friend has just brought one, for quite a bit of money too, and quite frankly, it has the most terrible front legs I've seen, totally back at the knee and with fetlocks on the floor. It passed (the dealers) vetting so she is paying the money because she thinks it's worth it because it's 16hh and it's coloured!!
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Thee and me both. Half of them don't just have fur coats like a cow, they have the conformation to match. But that is fashion for you - it makes people incredibly short-sighted.
 
Well tbh the whole colour "issue" is a bit boring isn't it? I couldn't really care less about the colour of its coat so long as it does what I want it to do and has decent conformation.

I always said I didn't like piebalds and now I have two of them. One was a rescue and the other chosen for his breeding, confo and general all round wow factor. Nowt to do with his colour. I've yet to have someone meet him - horsey or not - who hasn't commented on what a handsome beast he is, yet not one comment about his colour in relation to that! His mother is stunning, and talented too.

Anyway, round our way I think we are still in an anti-coloured timewarp, everyone has bay hunters.

ETS there are some dreadful coloured cobs around, but then again there are some dreadful solid colour cobs around too - mostly black I would say. Colour doesn't determine confo....
 
I never was a fan of coloureds or cobs, so seem to have performed an epic horse buying faux pas really. What I would have looked for if he hadn't found me, would be a nice solid coloured IDXTB or something. I suppose it has shown me that if the horse is the right one, I can see past the colour.
That said, the only horse I couldn't own is a cremello. Apologies to fans, but I have yet to see one that wasn't fugly.
I wouldn't go looking for another coloured, but apart from the keeping clean thing, he is very striking, so I would never rule it out in the future. Would have big shoes to fill though.
 
Bay's, Black's, Brown's and Chestnut's all the way for me...wouldn't entertain anything else unless it was AMAZING in every way and guarunteed not a mud-monster ;-)
 
While I do like a skewbald in the right type of horse. I love a good chestnut, black, bay, brown or buckskin. I have noticed a rise in the coloured's at the minute.
 
3 out of 4 of the horses I've had have been grey. Two weren't too bad but the third has made me vow never to have another horse with any bit of white on it ever again... Not even a star, let alone socks. He will be entirely black, brown, orange or beige.
 
As a little girl I always loved Palominos, thought put into my mind probably by my dad as he loved them too. I unexpectedly fell in love with a Gypsy cob in my early thirties and he tragically died one day before I got to see him one last time. I didn't want any other colour except a piebald after that. And then I got Archie.

I love quirky colours, something that is unusual, but prefer quirky coloured horses with dark eyes, as opposed to blue or wall eyes.

I love what many advertise as blue and white but sadly have yet to see one that hasn't changed colour.

But never forget, a good horse is never a bad colour and I certainly wouldn't rule out any horse just because they were a certain colour if they made me feel they were 'the one'.
 
Mmm, yes (poster above), I had this fantasy about palomino's as well when I was a kid; it was all I ever wanted. Then I ended up with a dapple grey, and ever-after have always loved greys.

I have a suspicion that grey is the "new" coloured, if you see what I mean. At our opening meet on Saturday there seemed to be LOADS of gorgeous grey horses, and I can't say I've noticed this before.

We have had quite a fair proportion of coloureds in the past, even one of the master's wife's horses was a very nice coloured, but this year there weren't any coloureds at all with the hunt staff, and TBH not very many at the meet, apart from one gorgeous gypsy cob who's owner had turned him/her out beautifully with a lattice-plaited mane and plaited tail. Fantastic!!

I always said I'd "never ever" have a coloured horse; dunno how I ended up with my traddie boy, I really don't. :) But love him to bits anyway.
 
If I had have been looking (which I wasn't) I would have gone for a plain bay with minimal white. Ooops:
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Well he is sort of bay.....
 
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