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| Spinoff: What are your "silly" turn-offs? (or turn-ons?) | |
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| Topic Started: Nov 2 2009, 04:32 PM (931 Views) | |
| FlashGordon | Nov 2 2009, 04:32 PM Post #1 |
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TBF's thread got me thinking about me own "I will never own a horse that ______" hang-ups. What are your own personal, perhaps irrational, turn-offs when it comes to horse shopping? Frankly I'm not a fan of blue eyes. I don't like bald faces or lots of white. I prefer solid to chromey. No western-y colors (I know, how bad is that.) I like well balanced with short backs and good shoulders. I'm a fan of athletic, workmanlike builds. No super feminine or dainty beasts. Ironically, I'd love to have a sporthorse type Arab someday. Doesn't have to be a 10 mover but better at least be comfortable. Don't care of it moves like a sewing machine providing I'm not wrenching my back with every stride. Will admit to loving solid bays, chestnuts with little white, and classic greys. Though like I said in my post on the other thread, melanoma and cancer issues in greys have just about turned me off them. Ok your turn!! |
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| SnackPack | Nov 2 2009, 04:48 PM Post #2 |
It'll be an adventure! We're going on an adventure!
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Before owning Show, I was your typical blaze and 4 whites type. Now I prefer a distinct face marking but wouldn't turn away a blaze. Show's pretty much my dream horse in the looks department. I don't like plain bays at all. (But a unusually chromed dark bay is my favorite) I do like plain chestnuts, though. They seem rarer than plain bays. Not a huge fan of the unusual colors (pintos, palominos, etc) No blue eyes I really dislike eyes with sclera showing. I DO NOT like greys. I love them when they are dappled, but I know it will fade and I hate flea-bitten/white etc. I don't like it when a horse feels different going each direction. We've got some sound horses that just feel different when you change directions at the trot and it's unsettling to me. Like I have to change my rhythm as we change direction. Edited by SnackPack, Nov 3 2009, 09:10 AM.
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| kady05 | Nov 2 2009, 05:35 PM Post #3 |
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I'm also not a fan of blue eyes or bald faces. I CAN do blue eyes if they have color covering them, like this: Horse I don't think I could ever own a plain anything. I know, I'm a snob. But I've had a paint, a bay w/3 white stockings & blaze, a buckskin, another bay w/4 white stockings & a blaze (aka Clyde), a dapple grey, another dark bay w/4 whites & a blaze, and a bay w/2 white socks & a star. I suppose you could say I have a thing for bays  But yeah, plain bays/chestnuts/etc. don't do anything for me in the looks department. They have to have SOME white on them to get my attention. I could probably do a black with a tiny bit of white, but that's it.I love dapple greys but I don't know if I'd ever own a grey again.. too much work for my OCDness. LOVE paints (not 'wild' colored ones), palominos, & buckskins. I love how Clyde is super dainty, and when I can get another horse, will look for one built like him.. maybe add a little more bone, but I love the refined, almost Araby look (seeing as I owned an Arab for 2 1/2yrs.). It just fits me better since I'm so tiny. I look stupid on the big WB type horses. I cannot stand riding horses. I will always own a pony. Always. Showing doesn't matter to me. I will never own a horse that is extremely spooky again. I adore Clyde, and can do whatever I want to with him on the ground, but I just cannot get along with a spooky horse u/s. I'm too nervous/timid myself for that. |
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| Fish Cheeks | Nov 2 2009, 06:30 PM Post #4 |
It'll be an adventure! We're going on an adventure!
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Let's see. I love the dark, dappled grey color but I hate the fleabitten color so a grey wouldn't be at the top of my list. Sorry to those who love them, but I am not an Arab fan. I've only ever met one that I've ever liked. I don't like long manes (of course that is fixable). In the past I may have said no cribbers but now that I have one (the Tomato) it doesn't really bother me. It is so hard to say in absolutes what I will or will not have as we have a wonderful horse with horrible confirmation, who cribs and roars and I love him so much! I think I would not want another horse like Miles. I don't know what his problem is, but he's very challenging - lit and fig. Every day is a new day wrt fighting for dominance and dealing with bad behavior. I'm used to it by now so I can work around it but I fear I just couldn't sell him because he's such a naughty pony. And he isn't just that way with me or other people - he's like that with all the horses as well!! So I guess I wouldn't buy a horse because of his cute face.  
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| Kikki | Nov 2 2009, 08:02 PM Post #5 |
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I am fairly flexible in terms of appearance - performance is much more important to me as long as they have a decent brain and good conformation. My big no-go is rearing. I think its the most dangerous thing a horse can do. That is probably my biggest deal breaker. As for appearance, I ADORE pintos and dark bays with NO white. I don't care for chestnuts that much or grays, though I have owned both. A gray would have to be super extraordinary for me to buy it as I have lost one to melanoma and I don't want to ever go there again. But just being gray isn't an automatic deal breaker. |
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| Trialbyfire | Nov 3 2009, 05:19 AM Post #6 |
It'll be an adventure! We're going on an adventure!
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I don't particularly like greys and the melanoma thing is a fear, too. But I had my trainer's grey horse for a while this summer and he had NO personality. Just nothing. The flies loved him best, he had weird chestnuts that would peel off and leave pink scabby skin...yuck. I think he scarred me for life against greys, although I do think they are pretty all cleaned up and in tack. Maybe I could be convinced if I found a nice one. I don't have too many other likes/dislikes. I don't like wildly assymestrical facial markings but I don't suppose that is all that unusual. I just think it makes horses look unbalanced sometimes. They have to have a personality. My horses at home are my pets, too. A lesson horse..who cares if it has a personality because I'm only riding it for an hour. But at home, it has to have *something*. I like my boarder's horse even though he's bad....at least he has a personality! |
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| Indy | Nov 3 2009, 09:18 AM Post #7 |
You're BANNED!
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I love chrome, paints & apps, but I hate hate hate cleaning them (All of the horses I've owned, leased, or consistently ridden up until Bailey have all been greys, paints, or had white legs and faces). As much as I love how they look, if I could design my ideal horse, he'd have as little white as possible and be dark bay (enter Mr. Baily...dark bay, few socks, and just a little snip). If I was looking to buy, the horse would have to be perfect to be grey. If the horse was ideal in all other ways, I'd get over the color, but given my choice I don't want another grey. Gender is also an issue for me. I'm not a mare person. Which is ironic because I've spend most of the past three years riding mares but I just dont' like the moodiness. Again, it would have to be the ideal animal in all other ways for me to buy a mare. I like big noble heads on horses, I don't like prissy pony heads on horses. On ponies, they're adorable, but on a horse I don't like the dished thing. Personality is also important. Nothing nasty, no biters. The horse doesn't have to be super lovey, but I'd like something there. Bailey certainly isn't snuggly, but he's quite endearing in his grumpy old man ways. As far as riding turn-offs, stopping and bucking are my big ones. I don't have the confidence to deal with stoppers anymore...if it's one of those "if I leave from here, I'll kill us both" stops, that's fine (self-preservation isn't a bad trait), but dirty stops I can't do. And bucking terrifies me. I can handle a crow hop or two, but the head down bucking is a deal breaker. |
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| CDE Driver | Nov 3 2009, 10:14 AM Post #8 |
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While I love greys the melanoma thing is too scary for me. No chestnuts. Not that I would turn down a beautiful liver chestnut with four white stockings  The herd bound horses need not apply either. That whole screaming meemee thing drives me nuts!  Now just watch....some one will give me a herd bound plain chestnut  and I will fall in love with it 
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| Trialbyfire | Nov 3 2009, 10:15 AM Post #9 |
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It'll be an adventure! We're going on an adventure!
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So I rode the other horse that came in yesterday and he was nice, but not what we want. Very western pleasure-y (although he rides western and english).....very strange to ride a horse that wanted to canter with his nose a foot off the ground! I guess the prospective buyers were looking mostly for a pleasure horse and he certainly fits the bill for that. Interestingly -- they almost didn't bother riding him, and definitely don't want him because he has an ugly head. He does. He actually has a dent in his face that is probably just how he was born. I didn't notice it at first but thought his eyes looked weird and one (the dented side) looks unusually protuberent. But he seemed sweet and was super comfy....has a nice slow WP jog and seemed willing enough (the trainer had a pro hop on after I rode him a bit on the flat and he went over a bunch of jumps willingly enough although it didn't seem like he'd had much jumping experience in the past.) But they don't want him. Anyway, would you turn down a horse because of a dented face? I don't think I would; if it had been an older packer type that I could throw my kids on without worrying, I think I would have liked him well enough, dented face and all. But interesting considering this thread! |
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| kady05 | Nov 3 2009, 10:16 AM Post #10 |
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I'm the same way. I've owned 2 'dead' personality type horses and I did not own them long. I can't stand a horse that's not interactive with you or it's surroundings. I don't care if it's perfect in every other way, if it has no personality, I don't want it. I thought of another one, I will NEVER own a mare again. NEVER. I vowed I never would own one, bought one, and couldn't stand her personality, even while on Regumate. Bleh. Sorry to all the mare lovers out there, they are just NOT for me! Now I will only check the 'Gelding' box on sale sites if I'm searching for horses. |
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| MissBri | Nov 3 2009, 10:20 AM Post #11 |
Cead Mile Failte ! ! SLAINTE!
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Although I think they are nice horses for someone else, I doubt I would ever consider a grey. Also not a huge fan of bald faces. Hate a horse that is pushy and ill-mannered on the ground (although if it wows me everywhere else I would consider it). Oh I definitely prefer a mare - especially chestnut ones with a nice star - if it's liver chestnut I just melt.... |
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| jn4jenny | Nov 3 2009, 10:32 AM Post #12 |
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On the one hand, I'd like to think I'm pretty liberal. No greys but only because I wouldn't be able to keep it clean. No blue eyes because they give me the heebie-jeebies. I would RIDE either of those but I would not OWN either of those. But in reality, I am not very liberal. If I'm going to write an endless series of checks on a horse, it needed to be Mister Perfect. I bought the horse who 100% matched the horse that I was envisioning in my head. Right down to the size, markings, everything. Edited by jn4jenny, Nov 3 2009, 10:34 AM.
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| lhunterl | Nov 3 2009, 11:33 AM Post #13 |
We're on a bridge, Chaaaaaaaaarlie!
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I will never own a horse that jumps like crap. Other than that, I can't use the word never. However, it would take a series of miracles to ever get me on an App. Also not a fan of blue eyes and bald faces, or plain chestnuts. Gray and mare actually give a horse a little bit of a boost, in my book. |
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| vxf111 | Nov 3 2009, 12:33 PM Post #14 |
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I won't have a gray due to bad experiences with melanomas but otherwise I am not picky about color (don't prefer dilute colors but it's okay). I won't have a cribber. That's it. Otherwise, the best horse that can perform the job is the one I want. I have preferences, sure, but only the gray and cribbing are dealbreakers for me. |
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| Barn Girl | Nov 3 2009, 01:05 PM Post #15 |
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I totally agree with TBF and Kady, they *have* to have a personality. I'm not much on the "bump on a log" type that looks at me with dead eyes, even if its the quietest, nicest horse u/s. All 3 of mine have tons of personality and totally interact with me. I'm not sure how important that'd be if I were still boarding, but with them at home, its important since I interact with them constantly. The only thing I would NOT consider at this point is a black/white paint... because that's what the crazy SOB horse was that I had my fall of the century from. I don't even like seeing them in other people's fields as I'm driving by. I prefer to think they don't exist. Dumb, I know, but I can't help it.Funny how many people don't care for chestnuts... all of my fave horses have been chestnuts or bays, I love both colors. |
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