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Location: TN | Just a fun post - what do you lean towards when buying?
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | bay is a favorite and chromed up sorrels. My husband is a huge fan of bays so when I am broodmare shopping, if I find a bay he is more apt to say yes lol. |
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Location: Northwest | I’m an absolute sucker for a sorrel with chrome. But a nice horse is a nice horse, no matter the color, and that’s what I have to go off of when buying. |
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Location: Montana | To be honest, I'm not real picky on color, but some how I've been on a grey kick lately. My gelding is grey, a prospect I'm looking at is grey, and another DFP daughter I'm looking at for a broodmare is grey. But then I saw a really pretty chromed up sorrel today I wouldn't mind haveing. Oh, and can I say I love roans and palominos?! All right, all right, I can't pick a favorite, LOL. |
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Location: TN | I agree with all of you! I’m a sucker for a gray, bay, and sorrels/chestnuts with chrome. Any color can be pretty on the right horse! |
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Location: Somewhere around here | wyoming barrel racer - 2018-02-13 9:05 PM
bay is a favorite and chromed up sorrels. My husband is a huge fan of bays so when I am broodmare shopping, if I find a bay he is more apt to say yes lol.
Haha my husband is the same about roans
To be fair I'm not a fan of some colors, sorrel especially, but that's just because the last 3 horses I've had we're sorrels and it's left a bad taste in my mouth lol. I'd kill for a bay.
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Location: TN | Here's a question... do you think color can add value to a horse?
For example, if you have two equally perfect horses in breeding/conformation/ability/personality etc. BUT one is plain colored (say sorrel with no white) and the other is flashy colored (gray, roan, golden palomino, etc.)........is the flashy colored horse worth a little more money??? |
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Location: Ohio girl moved to PA | KatieMac88 - 2018-02-14 9:05 AM Here's a question... do you think color can add value to a horse? For example, if you have two equally perfect horses in breeding/conformation/ability/personality etc. BUT one is plain colored (say sorrel with no white) and the other is flashy colored (gray, roan, golden palomino, etc.)........is the flashy colored horse worth a little more money???
oh for sure. People jack up prices all the time simply because of color. Would i be willing to pay more for color? depends. Everything else better be correct before i spend extra money on just color. But theres people that will. I know a girl that will ONLY buy buckskins no matter what. But her pocketbook also allows her to. lol |
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | I'm a BAY fan....bay fillies to be exact!  |
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Location: TN | Ohiobarrelracer - 2018-02-14 9:32 AM
KatieMac88 - 2018-02-14 9:05 AM Here's a question... do you think color can add value to a horse? For example, if you have two equally perfect horses in breeding/conformation/ability/personality etc. BUT one is plain colored (say sorrel with no white) and the other is flashy colored (gray, roan, golden palomino, etc.)........is the flashy colored horse worth a little more money???
oh for sure. People jack up prices all the time simply because of color. Would i be willing to pay more for color? depends. Everything else better be correct before i spend extra money on just color. But theres people that will. I know a girl that will ONLY buy buckskins no matter what. But her pocketbook also allows her to. lol
Wow must be nice for her! lol
I'm with you on that. I agree that it does make the price increase a little bit, but hey there are people who will pay it. Heck I might pay a little extra if I could afford it and loved the color. |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | KatieMac88 - 2018-02-14 7:05 AM Here's a question... do you think color can add value to a horse? For example, if you have two equally perfect horses in breeding/conformation/ability/personality etc. BUT one is plain colored (say sorrel with no white) and the other is flashy colored (gray, roan, golden palomino, etc.)........is the flashy colored horse worth a little more money???
2 equal horses, one is fancy color the other plain? Absolutely. I see it enough where a plain sorrel is better built and/or more talented and people pay more for a colored one that is lacking in conformation etc. |
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Location: Montana | Yeah, I found that out, color sells and brings more. I had two horses that were half siblings. One was a chromed up sorrel (yeah, I know pretty) and one was black with a single white star on her face (think Black Beauty). The black one brought more money and sold more quickly than the sorrel. They were both really athletic, both had nice conformation (although the sorrel was built more like a runner) and I thought the sorrel was more easy going as far as disposition. Needless to say, it is jaded me for in the future on buying horses...I'm probably more likely to buy a colored prospect (with equally as good of conformation and bloodlines) vs a plainer one just because of resale. |
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| The last 3 horses I bought were sorrel. I was tired of red. I didn't really care what color my new horse was after that, as long as it wasn't all red! LOL! I ended up with a palomino roan!
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Location: Ohio girl moved to PA | Nateracer - 2018-02-14 11:53 AM The last 3 horses I bought were sorrel. I was tired of red. I didn't really care what color my new horse was after that, as long as it wasn't all red! LOL! I ended up with a palomino roan!
Okay, i have to see a picture. Dont think ive ever came across a roan pally.  |
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| Ohiobarrelracer - 2018-02-14 11:04 AM Nateracer - 2018-02-14 11:53 AM The last 3 horses I bought were sorrel. I was tired of red. I didn't really care what color my new horse was after that, as long as it wasn't all red! LOL! I ended up with a palomino roan!
Okay, i have to see a picture. Dont think ive ever came across a roan pally.
It's honestly hard to tell. She's real light in the summer in her coat, with her head and leg points being slightly darker.
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Location: Jersey Girl | There really is no bad color for a good horse. Except for cremellos and perlinos. I don't do those. I won't even look at one if I am horse shopping.
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Location: Feeding mosquitos, FL | Somehow I'd ended up with a straight up red, a dun, and a red roan. Then a fleabitten gray ended up in my pasture. She sticks out like a sore thumb. 
Good conformation catches my eye first. Double bonus points if it's bay, gray, or roan. |
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Location: TN | Nateracer - 2018-02-14 11:13 AM
Ohiobarrelracer - 2018-02-14 11:04 AM Nateracer - 2018-02-14 11:53 AM The last 3 horses I bought were sorrel. I was tired of red. I didn't really care what color my new horse was after that, as long as it wasn't all red! LOL! I ended up with a palomino roan!
Okay, i have to see a picture. Dont think ive ever came across a roan pally.
It's honestly hard to tell. She's real light in the summer in her coat, with her head and leg points being slightly darker.
WOW! That's a neat and rare color! |
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Location: Texas | I need a horse in every color... except maybe perlino or cremello.. I would pass on those.
I have a really loud rabicano palomino... she looks like a pale palomino from a distance but up close you can see all her speckles and roan. |
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Location: California | I prefer dark horses over light - I do not like grey's. I don't know why, I just don't. My boyfriend loves them. I will say that I am more of a sucker for a mane and tail than I am for color. Any color can look good if they are built good with some pretty hair IMO.
As far as adding value because of color - I would say it doesn't add more $$$ to the price tag but it brings more people to the horse for that price tag. It sells easier but I wouldn't price a horse higher because of color.
Editted to add: We currently have 2 true blue roans, a dun, a buckskin, a bay blanketed appy, a bay, two sorrels, an overo sorrel paint, a palomino, a black, and I just sold a red roan. Plus a grey being delivered this weekend. So we have almost all of them! lol
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Location: Arkansas | We have a chestnut, sorrel, red dun, black, red roan Paint, and a buckskin. . . . . Really trying hard to cover all our bases!!! |
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Location: never in the right place | I have always wanted a bay no white marking (maybe a little star) and have ended up with mostly sorrels. This time I wanted a bay and got a palomimo but he is exactly what I wanted. |
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Location: Washington. (The DRY side.) | ctdrumrunr - 2018-02-15 7:58 AM I have always wanted a bay no white marking (maybe a little star) and have ended up with mostly sorrels. This time I wanted a bay and got a palomimo but he is exactly what I wanted.
My mares. (The big one of the left is actually a bay roan.) |
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Location: Washington. (The DRY side.) | These days color matters. I want what I want (Bay or brown with no white. Will also accept bay or brown roan. I will take a small amount of white on a bay or brown if all else is "right". But all else being equal, no white wins.) And if I am willing to wait, I CAN find it. I'm not saying any old junk horse as long as it is the "right color". I am saying EVERYTHING I want, INCLUDING the color. It costs the same to feed exactly what you want as it does what you don't want or like. (I've had plenty of other colors in the past, including colored Appies and a palomino and white tobiano paint. And they were all nice horses.)
My 2 current mares: (Big mare on the left is actually a bay roan.)
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Location: TN | RacingQH - 2018-02-15 12:49 PM
These days color matters. I want what I want (Bay or brown with no white. Will also accept bay or brown roan. I will take a small amount of white on a bay or brown if all else is "right". But all else being equal, no white wins.) And if I am willing to wait, I CAN find it. I'm not saying any old junk horse as long as it is the "right color". I am saying EVERYTHING I want, INCLUDING the color. It costs the same to feed exactly what you want as it does what you don't want or like. (I've had plenty of other colors in the past, including colored Appies and a palomino and white tobiano paint. And they were all nice horses.)
My 2 current mares: (Big mare on the left is actually a bay roan.)
Pretty girls! I love how stout they are!
I agree that you can find what you want color wise if you're patient enough. Do you dislike white because of white hooves or just personal color preference? I love a bay with some white on his/her head. I prefer black feet, but can deal with a couple white hooves. |
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Location: Washington. (The DRY side.) | I just don't like white markings on an AQHA or TB horse. (I like colored APHA and ApHC horses though.) I've had several with white feet including a cherry red sorrel with a blaze and 4 white stockings. I have never had any issues with their feet due to them being white. |
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| My favorite color is green. Any color is beautiful in a win picture. I'm least partial to greys or palominos, but could really care less. |
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Location: Tulsa, Ok | I just can't resist a plain brown wrapper!! |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | SC Wrangler - 2018-02-16 9:00 PM I just can't resist a plain brown wrapper!!
Me either... And I love a good looking sorrel and bay.. But my favorite is a Brown.. |
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