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| della - 2016-07-29 7:39 PM
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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Location: Royal J Performance Horses, AZ | wont buy an APPY like EVER.
Everything else its about the horse not the color. |
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| Flea bitten grey - nooo thanks. The one I sold drove me absolutely nuts ! She kinda ruined it for any other greys although I do like one with dapples.. |
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Location: Texas | camillamarie - 2016-07-29 10:50 AM
Won't even go near a cremello or a perlino.
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| mmfarms - 2016-07-29 7:01 PM
della - 2016-07-29 7:39 PM
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.
If that is her in your profile pic....she is a beauty
Yes that is her! She is a very good looking horse! And has an even better mind!! I really do love her. |
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Location: Missouri | Fancie_That_Chrome_ - 2016-07-29 8:07 PM
wont buy an APPY like EVER.
Everything else its about the horse not the color.
Yup! I wouldn't want an appy, EVER. The coloring many of them have around their eyes weirds me out.  |
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Location: Iowa | I don't care for palominos or white horses. |
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| Hmmmm.... I don't know. For years I thought sorrels were just plain but if there was a dark red one I might consider it. I do however love browns. I have two. Black in the winter and they fade in the summer. My tb is so faded this yr she almost looks buckskin from far away. There's something about a dark brown or black horse that gets my mouth watering when I see them. I've never cared for palominos. There pretty but just never had any taste for them. Growing up we did raise a beautiful palomino paint. Dark golden and marked beautiful. Like someone else said, a good horse is a good horse and I would keep that in mind if I was looking for one. |
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| MOGirl07 - 2016-07-29 10:12 PM
Fancie_That_Chrome_ - 2016-07-29 8:07 PM
wont buy an APPY like EVER.
Everything else its about the horse not the color.
Yup! I wouldn't want an appy, EVER. The coloring many of them have around their eyes weirds me out.
I love appys!! I grew up on one and he'd babysit us kids all day. Here lately I've been on a apply kick and love seeing them. I've also thought having a barrel racing mule would be fun lol :D |
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| MOGirl07 - 2016-07-29 11:12 PM
Fancie_That_Chrome_ - 2016-07-29 8:07 PM
wont buy an APPY like EVER.
Everything else its about the horse not the color.
Yup! I wouldn't want an appy, EVER. The coloring many of them have around their eyes weirds me out.
Agreed, you couldn't pay me to take another appy. Every single one of them that I've ever swung a leg over had a screw loose. I have one I'm stuck with because he's too crazy to sell on and me be able to trust him not to kill someone. Then we had a POA (which is just an appaloosa pony, don't let anyone tell you different) who we sold at auction to get rid of her mean butt. Never again. I even had one who I thought was an exception to my no appy rule, until we took him to his first decent sized show and he flipped his lid and did all kinds of crazy stuff (rearing, falling over, pulling back etc). Negative ghost rider, I'll pass.
i will do any other color, but I auto DQ it if it is appy anything (even solid appy). |
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Location: Jersey Girl | I would not buy a cremello or perlino.
Of course at one time I wouldn't buy a true black horse. Had a gelding that was as dumb as a box of rocks. And just plain annoying. Then I owned a true black mustang mare. Smart, smart, smart! |
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Location: Jersey Girl | canchaserdreams - 2016-07-29 9:46 PM Flea bitten grey - nooo thanks. The one I sold drove me absolutely nuts ! She kinda ruined it for any other greys although I do like one with dapples..
I would agree. The flea bitten ones are just plain ugly. |
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Location: Arkansas | We tend to buy with resale in mind so no cremellos or perlinos. People just don't like them and they are hard to sell. Hubby actually looked at one earlier in the week and would probably have bought him if he had been any other color. |
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Location: Displaced Iowegian | We have had sorrels, roans (bay, blue and red), bays, palominos, grays (even flea bitten), duns, buckskins, no wwhite, with white, etc, etc, etc….so I guess you would say that color doesn’t mean much to us….if they are winners, I could care less if they were blue, green, had three eyes or two tails…..If you have passed up a horse primarily because of color, chances are you have passed up a winner some where down the line…….. 
Edited by NJJ 2016-07-30 1:14 PM
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | NJJ - 2016-07-30 10:48 AM We have had sorrels, roans (bay and red), bays, palominos, grays (even flea bitten), duns, buckskins, no wwhite, with white, etc, etc, etc….so I guess you would say that color doesn’t mean much to us….if they are winners, I could care less if they were blue, green, had three eyes or two tails…..If you have passed up a horse primarily because of color, chances are you have passed up a winner some where down the line……..  Totally agree here, I dont care what color a horse is as long as I like it or it takes care of you and does its job, I would never pass one up because of its color.
Edit to add; I agree with the OP, I think that this is a silly thread too. 
Edited by Southtxponygirl 2016-07-30 11:08 AM
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Location: Georgia |
BLACK! I had a black mare and she would bleach out so bad in the summer. It made her look so unhealthy. It was the ugliest color. I will never own another black horse. Ever. |
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| NJJ - 2016-07-30 9:48 AM
We have had sorrels, roans (bay and red), bays, palominos, grays (even flea bitten), duns, buckskins, no wwhite, with white, etc, etc, etc….so I guess you would say that color doesn’t mean much to us….if they are winners, I could care less if they were blue, green, had three eyes or two tails…..If you have passed up a horse primarily because of color, chances are you have passed up a winner some where down the line……..
Blue .... Roan is my holy grail of color LOL |
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Location: Montana | Southtxponygirl - 2016-07-30 9:59 AM
NJJ - 2016-07-30 10:48 AM We have had sorrels, roans (bay and red), bays, palominos, grays (even flea bitten), duns, buckskins, no wwhite, with white, etc, etc, etc….so I guess you would say that color doesn’t mean much to us….if they are winners, I could care less if they were blue, green, had three eyes or two tails…..If you have passed up a horse primarily because of color, chances are you have passed up a winner some where down the line……..
Edit to add; I agree with the OP, I think that this is a silly thread too.
I think it is kind of an interesting thread. If you are a breeder, it is always interesting to hear people's answers to a question like this. Not that I think color is important in a barrel horse, but it affects the click through rate on ads! And in 2016, you can't sell 'em if you can't get people to click.
I love Paints and Appies both. I've ridden some good ones of both breeds. But then in solids I love a plain old brown horse. Go figure.
We rarely buy a sorrel because they are harder to sell. My Dad keeps reminding me that he can remember when sorrels were the hot color. It was in the 1940's.
And I have always said I wouldn't buy a gray but we could breed a gray mare to our QH or TB studs so maybe I would now. Still wouldn't buy a gray stud though, we have too many Paint mares and I don't care for white horses with white spots . . . . |
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Location: Stuck in a cubicle having tropical thoughts | My dream was to always have a Blue Roan. I bought one when I was 18 and used her my last year of fair. Won grand champion at county fair, reserve champ at state fair, and was my first 21 second pole horse on top of running locally right at the bottom of the 1D, top of 2D. She was so athletic and quick. But she had a screw loose and it kept getting looser and looser (which I now blame on her bloodlines). She was beautiful with black mane and tail, black legs and black face with white star. But she gave me anxiety and was the one that ended up ruining my confidence. So, now when I see a blue roan, my stomach churns. I'd love to have ASOF one day, and that would be my only exception to even own another roan........but I'll probably never be able to afford anything by ASOF anyway so I guess it doesn't matter.
That said, I'll take a field full of sorrels, chestnuts and brown horses all day long. My heart flutters when I see a photo of a muscled up, pretty sorrel or chestnut.
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Location: Lone Star State | Roans, specifically a bay roan. Not my favorite due to owning one particular roan horse who ruined me on the color. My best horses have always been sorrel, so I love shiney sorrels!! |
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