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Location: Somewhere around here | Just a light hearted thread to poke fun at ourselves.
The question is: what color will you hopefully never buy again?
My answer would be...SORREL! The last three horses I've had in a row were all sorrels, and I have had just the worst luck. First one sent me to the hospital, second came up with navicular, and third just does suit me (even though he's a good horse). I'd kill for any other colored horse the next time I'm in the horse market lol. |
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Location: Kansas | All I've had were bays, greys, and sorrels. Now I have a bay and a red dun lol, I finally have a colored horse lol. |
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Location: Alabama | A good horse is never a bad color.
That being said I try to avoid dilutes. |
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 Serious Snap Trapper
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | I won't buy a sorrel for myself. Just personal preference. It seems like EVERYONE has sorrels, and although there are many beautiful ones, I find them to be bland. |
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| It is silly, but I wont buy a paint. All the ones I've been around (which is quite a few) seem to be really quirky. More so bred for color than attitude or performance. Although I do know of a few GREAT paints that I would buy, personally I tend to avoid them.
Never say never though! ha |
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Location: Deep South | I try to never say never, but.... I buy with resale value in mind and it is a lot harder to sell a sorrel. Their pictures just don't draw peoples' attention like other colors do. At least in my experience. So I stay away from those when shopping for prospects. |
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 Money Eating Baggage Owner
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Location: Phoenix | Love me some sorrels!! They're probably my favorite color.
You probably wont find me buying a piant....like ever. |
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 Not Afraid to Work
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| I love me a ginger 
I don't really have a huge never category but I don't prefer medicine hats or cremellos. I typically like bays, greys, sorrels and a nice tri-paint. Those are my favorites. I am kind of meh... on the palomino, buckskin, etc. |
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  Witty Enough
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Location: CTX | Really don't care what the color is, as long as I like the horse. But I am no fan of paints, so maybe I will only get solids.... |
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| Won't even go near a cremello or a perlino. |
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| I absolutely adore my white (paint) gelding, you can't see he's a paint till he gets wet... the sun is hard on his pink nose and of course he's impossible to keep clean. I'm not sure I'd go out looking for another light colored horse but if it just so happened the next horse I click with this well is white, I wouldn't hesitate. I has crummy luck with sorrels too. |
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I just read the headlines
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| camillamarie - 2016-07-29 12:50 PM
Won't even go near a cremello or a perlino.
^^ This^^^. |
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Location: "...way down south in the Everglades..." | GLP - 2016-07-29 2:24 PM camillamarie - 2016-07-29 12:50 PM Won't even go near a cremello or a perlino. ^^ This^^^.
^^^Also this...and include the medicine hat paints in that category for me.
I actually love a nice sorrel and would love to have one again!
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | I love all colors but I don't think I could own another Black horse. They always turn red/brown in the pasture. Way to much upkeep for my taste. I currentl;y own a sorrel and a liver chestnut.
I also believe I would steer clear of a paint, perlino, or cremello WITHOUT good muscle definition, and a great mind. In my area it is very hard to sell these types of horses. Even with a good mind and good muscle definition. |
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Location: Durango CO | I won't buy a grey horse. I think they are the most beautiful color when they are actually grey or really dappled out but once they turn white I hate it!! I also don't tend to buy even a sorrel or bay if it doesnt have some sort of chrome. If they have no white on them it drives me nuts.
Edited by Lil_Pony35 2016-07-29 2:55 PM
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| I don't like gray horses. they all seem to have a stubborn streak. Don't care how they are bred. |
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Elite Veteran
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Location: Northwest | GLP - 2016-07-29 11:24 AM
camillamarie - 2016-07-29 12:50 PM
Won't even go near a cremello or a perlino.
^^ This^^^.
I'm not going to say never, but I can't imagine myself ever owning one of these. |
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Elite Veteran
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Location: Northwest | ~BINGO~ - 2016-07-29 10:22 AM
I won't buy a sorrel for myself. Just personal preference. It seems like EVERYONE has sorrels, and although there are many beautiful ones, I find them to be bland.
I'm the biggest sucker for a sorrel. I do prefer white on the face and at least one stocking. I'll be scrolling through ads and my eye is ALWAYS drawn to a sorrel over every other color. Followed by red roans and then bay roans. |
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Location: Dubach, LA | Nothing with a line down its back and around its legs will ever call my place home. |
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| I do not care for palomino.
Bred my brown mare to a sorrel and got one... My brown mare is now flagged as a cream carrier at AQHA
I wanted to stuff her back in and bake some color on lol but shes ok I love her. |
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