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    If your SO could pick any horse...

    What would they pick? I know some of our non-horsey SOs have some crazy dreams about horses!!

    Mine wants a reining "budweiser horse" named Spitfire
    Clancy 17hh chestnut Dutch WB, '99. Owned and loved since '04 and still goin'!
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    Well, my SO already has two horses of his own, both are TWHs. He will probably always have the breed, though he swears that his next riding horse will be shorter and more narrow than the big, beefy, stout Pusher-bred gelding.

    Don't get me wrong, it's a really nice horse. Great gaits, beautiful temperament, well-mannered. He's very wide across the top and my SO says there is always a moment when he mounts up and wonders if his hips will remain intact for the whole ride.
    Please copy and paste this to your signature if you know someone, or have been affected by someone who needs a smack upside the head. Lets raise awareness.

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    • #3
      Aaaand this is exactly why the DH (stocky, muscular 'lil dude) has a Palomino mare named Tinkerbell!

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        Originally posted by Shine View Post
        Aaaand this is exactly why the DH (stocky, muscular 'lil dude) has a Palomino mare named Tinkerbell!
        Clancy 17hh chestnut Dutch WB, '99. Owned and loved since '04 and still goin'!

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          It would be either plastic or stuffed. Something that was easily put in a closet and didn't require any care.
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            My non-horsey DH decided he would hop on my daughter's OTTB who was all tacked up while she was getting her helmet and chaps on.....Just wanted to walk around the ring for a minute.....I bring him up to the mounting block and hold him for DH to get on....."Wow, he is really tall...You are off the ground pretty far when you are up here, huh?"......I smiled to myself as I showed him the basics to steering and watched as horse takes careful steps around the arena somehow just knowing what he was dealing with.....

            Oh yeah, the horse is 15.1 on a good day....

            If he ever gets inspired to have one of his own it will be tricky...He is a stocky fellow as well.
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            • #7
              My fiance wants a Shire/TWH cross.
              Tell a Gelding. Ask a Stallion. Discuss it with a Mare... Pray if it's a Pony!

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                My husband has said he wants one he can say "Yes, sir" to.

                Not sure what qualifies as that besides some kind of draft? I suppose my Arabians aren't very manly most times, but he can even name off some of the horses in their pedigrees...

                Kinda funny considering he isn't a horse person.
                Semi Feral

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                • #9
                  Unlike others the horse that the Tim (who actually can ride) would pick actually exists.

                  He would like Exquis Nadine.

                  Keep dreaming Tim.
                  3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375 10582097494459230781640628620899862803482534211706 79821480865132823066470938446095505822317253594081 284811174502841027019385.....

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                  • #10
                    SO says it would be a draft horse, because he just likes them. LOL. But he's perfectly happy climbing aboard my little 14.2 Standy (cross?), just doesn't like when people ask for her name... "Fancy" haha.

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                    • #11
                      Oh this one's easy. Stick horse. Non negotiable.
                      Owned by a Paint/TB and an OTTB.
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                      RIP Tasha's Last Tango ~ 2010 at ~23
                      RIP In Sha' Allah ~ 2009 too young at 5

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by sublimequine View Post
                        My fiance wants a Shire/TWH cross.
                        I've actually seen one - well, I can't remember if he was Shire or Clydesdale on the draft-half. I boarded my horse at the same barn as the "big guy" and he was a really cool horse.

                        Can't remember much about his gaits. The local trails were always too muddy and nasty to get much consistent gaiting in, anyway.
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                        • #13
                          My boyfriend wants one that "looks like a cow." Lol. Preferably black and white, but brown and white will do. It has to be a mare, because he thinks cleaning sheaths is icky, and it has to be about 15hh. Good on trails, and maybe pretending to be a "cowboy's horse." No blue eyes, and it should be okay english, western, and bareback.

                          The pictures he likes the best? Gypsy Vanner horses, hahahaha. I told him no freaking way, I was not spending 4 hours a day brushing all that damn hair, lol.
                          "On the back of a horse I felt whole, complete, connected to that vital place in the center of me...and the chaos within me found balance."

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                            My DH has a thing for Fjord ponies. He's not all that horsey, but he likes the idea of driving a team of Fjords like some kind of modern-day Viking charioteer.

                            He's not interested enough to want to spend the time/money on horses of his own, but if he was, it would totally be Fjord ponies

                            When I had Stan lots of men seemed to think he was a very manly sort of horse, but not my DH. He rode him a few times, and declared him far too slow and docile to be at all manly.
                            "In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn’t merely train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming part dog."
                            -Edward Hoagland

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                              My hubby is pretty realistic in that he doesn't have the usual "boy dreams" of a giant draft horse. His usual criteria is "a good horse but not a plug." He also says that he hopes they're good about bees, ever since he rode his previous lovely old warmblood gelding through a nest of bees, and the wonderful horse didn't do anything but stamp his feet until Caleb was off and clear of him. I keep telling him that horse was one in a million...

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                                Originally posted by Laurierace View Post
                                It would be either plastic or stuffed. Something that was easily put in a closet and didn't require any care.
                                I was going to say the same thing.

                                Or one that fed itself, cleaned its own stall, repaired any damage to the barn, repaired fences, mowed the yard, and did the weed eating. Bonus points if it also cleaned the pool.
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                                • #17
                                  MrB honestly can't tell horses apart, lol. He hasn't spent much time around them to be fair, but we were looking at horsey calendars at the mall one time and from the ones he kept pointing to, i think he likes the big hairy ones!

                                  there's a retired trakehner at the barn where I ride. He's a gray, not that old but a hard keeper. mrb saw him and chuckled saying he looked like a donkey.... I thought he was talking about the pasture mate- a mealy nosed, adorable but not very handsome, dun colored pony.... But no, the gray, elegant looking trak! Soooo not sure what he was seeing there!

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                                    My husband wants a big draft horse, but would want to do something "rodeo related"

                                    His heart horse, though, is my mare. When I got her she was not happy about 24/7 turnout, and on her first morning here he went to take the garbage to the end of the driveway along the side of her pasture. She saw him and ran full tilt to him whinnying the whole way. I let him believe it was an "I LOVE YOU!" moment rather than a "Let me in the goddamn barn!" one, and he's been smitten ever since. Of course it doesn't hurt that she acts more like a dog than a horse (he can be loud and abrupt around her and she doesn't care)
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                                    • #19
                                      My DH only criteria is that he can name it Bruce.

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                                        Former SO had strict criteria. Didn't care what breed, just had to be a gelding (I informed him stallions were poor choices for his experience level, he was displeased) Just had to be black, with a BOLD blaze. Fully covers forehead and tapers down but ends like someone drew a straight line kind of blaze.

                                        Barn name would be Frank Castle. Show name would be The Punisher.

                                        It makes me giggle when I think about it.
                                        Owned by a Paint/TB and an OTTB.
                                        RIP Scoutin' For Trouble ~ 2011 at 10
                                        RIP Tasha's Last Tango ~ 2010 at ~23
                                        RIP In Sha' Allah ~ 2009 too young at 5

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