Horse Color

[~Wishful Thinking~]

What is the most common color for horses other than chestnut?
Black or??????????? what?
Just curious.

[Bezzella]

Hrrm... I like paints, palominos, but most of all chestnuts. I don't like bays & browns because they are so common, but chestnut is sooo purty that I like it.

[Jinxx]

My favorite is chestnut as well, Bezz, followed by buckskin and pintos. Dapple Greys are at the bottom of my list, as blacks are low too.

[Bleed]

There's nothing better than a big old Dapple grey Warmblood Stallion Like my Aquarius

[luckygirl]

I LOVE paint horses and lippizaner stallions.

[Karleigh]

I love bays. Because my horse is a bay. So I'm a little bias.

[Kholran]

Black is my fav. Black Arabians have always been my favourite, and now I have one.

[Ada Russel]

I am really into Blacks and Palominos. Though Paints are gorgeous. Grey I adore, and dapple grey is starting to grow on me!

[Taco]

Dapple greys aren't that bad, I have a cute little arab mare who is just that. She was born bay, almost black, but then turned to a dapple gray and has shed out a different color grey every spring. =] Her hind legs up onto her quarters have been staying a dark smokey dapple the past few years.

[Mystie]

Bays are most common (at least they are over here) by far, that's why i don't like them as much.

My favourites are: Dun, Paint, Roans (strawberry roans most), Palomino, liver chestnut

But i also like: Dapple Grey, Chestnut and black

[Vitani]

Oooh gosh, I love ALL of them! Some though, just seem so much more'flashy' than others....A nice bright Palomino is sure going to stand out...I love the unique patterns you find with all the 'painted' variations..And anything dappled makes me smile I know a Dapple Grey, even if its spotlessly clean, isin't going to get the same dazzling shine a pure Black will, but I just...I dunno. I like patterns. I do love straight Black though....

What about markings for you guys? For me it depends on the horse...At our local A&P show, a gelding won "most handsome" 6 years running because he was a solid, deep rich Black, 4 stockings and a nice wide blaze....A heck of a job getting his black parts shiny and his white parts glowing but boy howdy, you couldn't NOT look at him, even just walking to get a drink....

[Karleigh]

I like as little white as posible. My horse is a dark bay and she only has a tiny cresent on her forhead. In her papers it says a few white hairs. Thats how she is registered. I know this gorgious black horse with a bald face (dontlike that much) and his entire body is black but a splash of white on this tummy Its soo cute!

[Vitani]

I dunno, I think its like people...Some horses can 'pull it off' and on others it just looks funny...

Where I used to work we had a 'skewbald' Gisborne called Pio...His entire body was grey ( white, but not albino so its grey...I hate that rule lol ) except for twin blotches on either side of his belly ( when you rode him, it was like your legs had stained him chestnut ) and a 'cap' covering both ears, chestnut forelock, chestnut upper mane and down one cheek....He was the strangest coloured horse I've ever seen, but he was never a 'comical' character....Tough as old boots so you respected the heck out of him even though you just wanted to laugh

[Karleigh]

There is a chestnut appy pony with white spots here that I see at all the lower level schooling shows. He is so cute. All his spots are white and about the top inch of both chestnut ears are pure white. Its adorable!

[Vitani]

Awww, a lil pony halo! Adorable