What is your dream horse like?

What breed? What gender? What colour? What discipline? Does it have a colourful history? If this were a perfect world where you could have the horse of your dreams what is it like?

I'm asuming you're referring to real life, if not I'll edit xD

I worked with my dream horse long ago, and my biggest regret was not buying him when I had the chance.
He was a Paint Percheron cross, percheron build and movement but black with tobanio type markings. He had lovely feathering on his legs and he was the prettiest boy in the field.
He didn't have a discipline other than he was an ex-NY-Carriage horse. I was the one to teach him to canter under saddle because he never knew how. We worked in dressage just because that's what I'd recently come from when I met him and it helped teach him flat work.
If I had bought him I think my world would be all butterfly's and kittens. Sweet,
Never sour. The bread without the crust if you will. I would be happy, He was and is my dream horse, and now I'm trying to find a horse to buy, and it's hard because to me no other horse will ever be him.

*cough* Sad story though

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Only good still I have of him, really.

Last edited on 2017-03-09 at 05:26:39 by Lucifer

Well, for me it would be raven black Akhal Teke with no visible white markings and both eyes blue. Yeah, I know that I'd need to win genetics lottery xD. Gender doesn't matter. Tekes are not very prospective sport horses, so I think we'd train dressage to make riding healthy and harmless to him/her and visit surrounding forests etc.

Also, I had 2 "dream horses" in my life - firs one was my very personal TB stallion, chestnut without markings. He was the biggest dodger I've ever met (seriously, never before and never after I met a horse who was able to run out from a pasture in way he did...), intelligent as hell (if only he used his intelligence to cooperate with people instead of acting like "I'm too dumb to get what you want me to do" xD) and in some weird way he respected me much more than other people who were taking care of him (eg. two adult man can't catch a horse that ran out from pasture? Send 13yo girl, she'll do that!).
I had him since he was born, I can say that we've been growing up together.
He passed away last spring at the age of 11 due to colic

Second one was born in 1993 KWPN cross black mare from one riding school. No one except me liked her 'cause she was huge (about 1,8 m at the withers...I looked like a dwarf while riding her with my 1,58 xD), non flexible (felt like riding a train instead of a horse :D) and uncomfortable in trot during the warm-up...well, to be honest, not only during the warm-up, sitting trot was almost impossible.
She was such a kind horse that loved working with humans (or maybe it was just me, trainer said that she did her best with me while sometimes ignored other riders (dunno why 'cause I was riding sooo lame at that time...well, now it's not much better xd)). One of three horses I completely trusted, she taught me a lot and cured my jumping fear (well...where other horses were jumping she was just cantering over :D), she never used riders' inconsistency in some dangerous way like stopping instead of jumping or something like that. Perfect horse teacher.
She was up to sell 4 years ago, I don't know who bought her. The saddest thing is that my parents could afford to buy her but we had at that time 3 other horses and the main problem was that she had some respiratory system disease (not sure if it was RAO...) that would generate many outcomes and I was afraid that we might not assure her dignified retirement. I haven't even told them that I know she'll be sold 'cause for sure they'd buy her.
I know that was a mature decision to not take her but even though I sometimes wonder what it would be like if I decided that she'll be mine.
Both stories are sad. Sometimes I think that I'm "cursed", heh. To every horse I liked more than others happens something bad.

When I was a little girl my dream horse was a bay Thoroughbred gelding with a big white star.

Huh... would you look at that

aww VOS is that your horse he is so cute. My dream horse is a black quarter horse mare with a bald face. She would be in barrel racing.

Yes he is :) I love him to death. He's turning 9 this month. Can't believe it.

well he is super cute i love thoroughbreds

I ride Western but I really want a Dutch Warmblood gelding, preferably bay. Maybe while I am in college, I can get into a little bit of English riding.
My second goal is to get a black Knabstrup.
When I was younger, I wanted a black tobiano Paint horse. That is my third goal.

If your talking imaginary, my dream horse would have to be a silver blood bay sabino with a badger face and blue eyes, I would prefer the mustang breed, lovely hardy horses, and I would be the weirdo training a commonly western horse in dressage xD

I don't have a horse in real life, I have a very bad dog, a kitten who thinks he's a dog, two other cats and my kittens grumpy old man of a brother (Not really him and Tiger are the same age xD)

If your talking about imaginary
My dream horse would be, a quarter horse stallion with the mane of Smart And Shiney (Reining horse look him up), The body and markings of Colonels Smoking Gun (Another reining horse look him up as well), The skills of Colonels Shinning Gun (The son of Colonels Smoking gun) The Horse has to be a Reining horse

My dream horse would have to be a dapple grey gelding that's between 16hh and 17hh. I've recently been working with a Thoroughbred and love him but if not a TB than maybe some type of Warmblood/TB cross or just warmblood. My dream horse would be fully trained as a jumper or eventer. The guy I'm working with now almost fits the description but he just came off the track and is still green. I also love buckskins and chestnuts with a lot of chrome but dapple greys have to be my favorite.

My dream horse is a friesian for pleasure/dressage work,

My second dream horse is a dapple grey horse (maybe warmblood or trakehner?) for jumping.

And both dream horses would be near bomb-proof and rarely spook.

My dream horse is my Stock horse cross paint mare called India! she has two blue eyes, one is marbled. She's also a tri-colour!




she's the one on the left in the second pic

Frankly, just owning a horse would be magical, but bare bones I'd prefer a gelding. Dream brand is a drum with more gypsie features, but the clydesdale height.

Hmm, dream horse would be a 14hh Anglo-Arab in near leopard bay appaloosa. Since that's not technically possible, I'll take a POA crossed to Arab a few times, so it's spotted, small, and mostly Arab, cross that to a TB, see how that one is, and maybe cross that back to an Arab until we get it just right. Technically the horse would be registered as a POA (as both TBs and Arabs are acceptable outcrosses so long as the foal is spotted and of correct height). This pretty, well-bred pony would then excel at eventing and combined driving, because of course it would be the result of horses with great minds, work ethics, and conformations. Yep, it's a grand dream :P

In the real world, I own a grey Arab clocking in at 148.5 cm (that's 1/2 a cm above pony height, I scolded him when he grew over that 148cm line, he didn't care). He is actually quite good at combined driving and is still working on his dressage basics before we start taking on jumps. But I have faith we will get there eventually, and maybe one day I'll spray paint him into an appy (oh the perks of a blank grey coat to play with).