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| In your personal experience between a mare and a gelding which have more heart, try and grit? 
When and where did you 1st know your horse had the "heart" to be something special? |
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| Like everything else, it depends on the horse. |
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| I don't think the sex of the horse has a darn thing to do with heart. IMO |
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | Ditto to the above, but I dang sure have two gritty little fillies from the same dam right now. |
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Location: North Dakota | In my experience I find that mares have more of a tendancy to have more grit and try where as a gelding will look for an excuse to not work or only work as hard as you make him...lol. But I have had a couple geldings that gave you 110% all day everyday and the few mares that just would rather fight and be stubborn than cooperate and do their job. But over all I have come across more hard working, gritty, give me everything they got, no complaining type attitudes in my mares. |
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| Mares but occasionally you will get a gelding |
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| In my experience, mares. Not to say there aren't geldings out there, but overall the mares just seem to be tougher and grittier. Keep in mind this is coming from someone who thinks women are just tougher than men in general, so perhaps I'm just sexist lol! |
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Location: Kansas | Whiteboy - 2014-04-28 11:11 AM Like everything else, it depends on the horse.
Agree, but I absolutely love my mares |
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Location: Texas | I think a horse with a ton of heart is special and gender doesn't determine that. We've had ones who were all heart, mare and gelding alike. |
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Location: Northern CA | In my opinion mares have more grit, but a gelding has more desire to please and is dang sure more consistent. I will take my geldings. Have tried and tried mares, and I think we are too much alike, do not get along with them.
Edited by halter_ego 2014-04-28 2:14 PM
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| I think that "heart" just depends on that particular horse. They are few and far between and you are always lucky to find one with a lot of heart. Now I feel where mares and geldings can be different is their "try" or "want to", at least in the beginning stages. Mares tend to have more try early on with their training, while with the geldings you have to coax it out a little more. Geldings (like little boys) are a little less focused and get distracted quicker. Like men, geldings mature a little later in life - LOL! The girls catch on a bit faster, but can have a bit more "attitude" about everything. |
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Location: Texas | Geldings! Every gelding I have rode has given me 200%. Every mare I have rode has been a BRAT!!! |
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Location: CA | Mares |
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Location: North Dakota | 3 To Go - 2014-04-28 2:51 PM
I think that "heart" just depends on that particular horse. They are few and far between and you are always lucky to find one with a lot of heart. Now I feel where mares and geldings can be different is their "try" or "want to", at least in the beginning stages. Mares tend to have more try early on with their training, while with the geldings you have to coax it out a little more. Geldings (like little boys) are a little less focused and get distracted quicker. Like men, geldings mature a little later in life - LOL! The girls catch on a bit faster, but can have a bit more "attitude" about everything.
^ this!!
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I Really Love Jeans
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Location: North Dakota | I have had better luck with mares. But it comes down to chance really! |
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Location: Pacific Northwest | Both...and I think when you find the perfect combination of horse and rider it makes it even better. I have a temperamental gelding that no one else gets along with but him and I have an understanding, so I think I get more out of him than someone else would. I have another gelding that would give me, or anyone, 110% with 3 broken legs. I also have a mare that did not click with her previous owner but her and I get along great and her times improved drastically just because she liked me, basically lol
All three of those horses are the ones I've had the strongest "bond" with, so to me they all seem like they have a lot of heart because they pretty much do whatever I ask and just want to work for me.
As for knowing "when", the temperamental gelding I got when I was 11 and he was 2 and I was basically so smitten by him that I didn't care that he was a stubborn brat and in my little 11 year old head I really thought we were going to make the NFR hahaha He ended up being a fantastic 4H horse for me, I did literally everything on him. The other gelding and mare it took me a bit longer for them to show me who they were. The gelding has a TON of health issues and still just wants to run and work (and a lot of times I can't let him, he's spent the last year being a trail horse), I don't think I will ever find another horse like him. The mare I was originally borrowing from a friend and I didn't know the horse at all and just went by what I was told - that she was witchy and basically a "typical mare". Turns out she's not like that at all, I think she was really misunderstood as corny as that sounds. And she had some pain issues that I fixed. Once I saw the "real" horse I decided to buy her and now she's mine forever (:
Edited by livexlovexrodeo 2014-04-28 7:52 PM
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Just got to find that right horse that will fit you and they will work their heart out for you, could be a mare or could be a gelding, or stud. |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | I have ridden a whole lot of every gender and I think mares have more heart in general. My pick is stallion because they have quite a bit of heart, but still love to please (if you have their respect), geldings and lastly mares. I also agree it depends on the horse, but if you took a poll I think mares would win. |
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| Mares ! Seems like everytime I hear someone with a horse that wants out of work/ stubborn is a gelding ! Just my personal experience though . |
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Location: Florida.. | just my opinion for me....
stallion and mares.I love my geldings but they had to have direction.. like a robot..lol.. they work well but treated it as a Job..
Stallions give it 110% alot of the time and wants perfection...and mares want it if they want it.. if a mare has it she has it.. and always will give you 110% but if she doesnt feel like it then .. so be it.lol.
Edited by Bibliafarm 2014-04-28 8:19 PM
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