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Location: MN | Id love to hear reasoning as to why you would or wouldnt buy a paint. If they are proven, why would you pass? I feel like so many nice horses are over looked just because they are a paint! |
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Location: Somewhere around here | I've don't usually pass on a horse just because it was a Paint but I do have some reasons I might... - Not registered if it was a mare, don't really care if it's a gelding
- Too much white (personal thing, I just like overos more)
- Scrawny, lol I like stout Paints
And that's about it. Everyone where I live won't really give them a chance, so I see it as a window for me to buy them cheaper BUT I'd have to advertise them in cities farther away because of the poor reseale vaule where I live. |
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| I personally wouldn't pass over a paint but the few reasons I have heard are about some of the rules/regulations through APHA and lack of futurity incentives. It is a smaller industry. So I think it depends on your ultimate goal. I run mostly barrel races, I don't care whether they are APHA, AQHA or App. However, I can be stringy on the white factor. Too much white isn't for me. |
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Location: Silver Lake, MN | I love paints and I also think you can find some deals. I know of some nice running bred paints that are resonabily priced. I am looking forward to running a paint gelding this year and will be getting another one this fall.
I know some people are very picky on the amount of white, I personally do not care. I know a lot of people loves greys and they eventualy turn all white. People always say they are too hard to keep clean, but to me it is no different than any light colored horse. LOL. |
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| I have never met a good horse that was a bad color. That being said...I am not going to pay extra just because it's nicer to look at than say, a plain sorrel. |
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Location: WI | I have a paint, although she is a solid buckskin so not really a "paint" :) BUT, my only reason I would not buy a particular colored paint is if it has excessive amounts of white, and that is strictly personal reasons. I hate when dirt spots are so visible on my horses. I also wouldn't buy a cremello or grey/white horse either for that reason. I am gambling as I breed to Strait Firewater again this year. I got lucky with my last color combo with him so we will see if I can get a repeat. I love a well bred, pretty colored, athletic, fast paint horse! |
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| In my opinion, Pretty is as Pretty does!! I like paints, but I buy a horse by how they perform their job compared to their hair color. |
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| The ONLY reason I am prejudiced against paints is because I had 2 paint mares who really soured me on them. One loud bay tobiano, and one plain sorrel, but both registered paints, and both nuttier than fruit cakes. But that's not to say I haven't been around some fabulous paint geldings, and been outrun by some talented paint mares! |
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Location: Running my kids somewhere. | I prefer paints, I raise paints and I usually run paints. If people are looking for a good horse...give the horse a chance with out looking at the color. There are many solid or minimal white paints out there. People don't know they are and they will still kick butt! Just because a horse is a paint should not mean anything.
I think it is people looking at things with rose color glasses. Many QHs and paints have the similar lines; just one has 'bing".
A friend of mine has a paint that is a reserve national champion dressage horse. He beats the warmbloods at their game. Same thing!!
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Location: Silver Lake, MN | This is very true!! My paint gelding has a QH sire and my baby coming this year is also by a QH sire. There are some really nice ones out there and I love seeing them do well. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | It can be pink, purple or a unicorn as long as its built good has a good mind and works I'll buy it if it fits what I'm looking for.  |
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| Kay-DRacing. - 2016-04-20 10:59 AM
Id love to hear reasoning as to why you would or wouldnt buy a paint. If they are proven, why would you pass? I feel like so many nice horses are over looked just because they are a paint!
I wouldn't buy a paint unless it was exactly what I was looking for and I planned to keep it. My two biggest issues are 1. I see a lot more successful QH's in my area of equine interest and 2. Because most people prefer QH, if I ever wanted to sell the horse I need to keep that in mind.
All that being said, I was just very graciously given a very very nice double Reg paint yearling gelding that has not a single "paint" on his papers but because his sire is a crop out, he gets to be double Reg. We will run him on the track as a paint and hopefully make a little money. |
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Location: MN | RodeoCowgirl4u - 2016-04-20 2:02 PM I have never met a good horse that was a bad color. That being said...I am not going to pay extra just because it's nicer to look at than say, a plain sorrel.
This is my thinking as well. I guess Ive been pretty lucky with the paints Ive had/have. As the saying goes, pretty is as pretty does. |
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Location: MN | rpreast - 2016-04-20 3:23 PM The ONLY reason I am prejudiced against paints is because I had 2 paint mares who really soured me on them. One loud bay tobiano, and one plain sorrel, but both registered paints, and both nuttier than fruit cakes. But that's not to say I haven't been around some fabulous paint geldings, and been outrun by some talented paint mares!
I totally understand where youre coming from there. I had an own son of On The Money Red and will never own another one of those again...and thats not to say that there arent some JAM up OTMR out there winning! |
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| People see more success with QH because that is thee most popular and populated breed and the odds are in their favor for that reason alone. I own/run 2 paints and I wouldn't trade them for a quarter horse, they are absolutely awesome. As far as I am concerned Paints are barrel racings best kept secret because if you know how to buy good horse flesh you will find a HECK of a deal on an athletic paint. With that being said, LOTS of white does turn me off, but so does a cremello QH or a heavy leopard app. There are SO MANY horses in this world just like there are fish in the sea. I have always been baffled myself why paints are overlooked, and I truly believe its because of their smaller population in the stock horse industry. |
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| Paints are not common in my area. Ive owned 1 and he was a SOB and hard headed. The other one I tried out was dumb as a box of rocks. I think those 2 situations are due to lack of great breeding in this area. Ive seen a few out of state I would go look at. I don't care if its a paint or AQHA, I want a horse to fit my needs. |
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| I love my solid sorrel paint mare! She is hard working, smart, great personality, gorgeous build, and no one believed she was a paint, nor that she had no name bloodlines. haha |
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Location: Silver Lake, MN | Reester - 2016-04-21 9:28 AM
People see more success with QH because that is thee most popular and populated breed and the odds are in their favor for that reason alone. I own/run 2 paints and I wouldn't trade them for a quarter horse, they are absolutely awesome. As far as I am concerned Paints are barrel racings best kept secret because if you know how to buy good horse flesh you will find a HECK of a deal on an athletic paint. With that being said, LOTS of white does turn me off, but so does a cremello QH or a heavy leopard app. There are SO MANY horses in this world just like there are fish in the sea. I have always been baffled myself why paints are overlooked, and I truly believe its because of their smaller population in the stock horse industry.
I totally agree with this...I will ride whatever color if I can find one that is super nice and get a deal on it. They look prettier when they win. I used to not like a lot of white, but I have started to like it over the years. |
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Location: East Texas | Well, if any of ya'll want to get rid of a paint cause you don't like the color, but can run let me know. We have only had one paint, but he is awesome.
Some have said that there are not many paints in their part of the country. What part of the country is paint country?
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| CrossDRanch - 2016-04-21 2:11 PM
Well, if any of ya'll want to get rid of a paint cause you don't like the color, but can run let me know. We have only had one paint, but he is awesome.
Some have said that there are not many paints in their part of the country. What part of the country is paint country?
There are quite a few SWEEEEET smokin fast hard turning paints in Michigan
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