Is it true what they say about chestnut mares?

They are highly spirited?

Is it true what they say about chestnut mares?
Color has no bearing on the horse's behavior. That all comes from the genetics and training. Whoever told you that is extremely ignorant.



EDIT: Just saw your addition about mares. Some mares do get pissy when they're in heat, but I don't think it has a bearing on their overall temperament. I'll emphasis what I typed before. Genetics and training are the biggest contributors to behavior and attitude.
Reply:I don't think the color really matters. I perfer geldings to mares, but it really does not have to do with color. Geldings tend to be more relaxed about life in general.
Reply:I have never heard of that myth, but 2 of the chestnut mares I know are extremely full of energy (not spooky, just can go for miles), and all 8 I know are pretty pissy- your typical mare attitude. The most "easy going" mares I know are paints and black horses, but color really should have no impact on temperment- color is a separate gene sequence from temperment.



It is the same thing with the "crazy eye" myth, where the whites of the eye show- it means the horse will be extremely spooky. While it does show more when scared (same as your eyes look bigger as well) my mare and many other paints/pintos have that trait, and some are spooky, some aren't.
Reply:Are you that stupid that you believe that stuff? Wow...
Reply:Definitely not true. In fact, I've never heard that myth, and I've been around horses my entire life and currently own a chestnut mare. She's solid as they come.
Reply:Not really. I had ridden a chestnut mare when I was 6 years old and she was really nice and pretty. She was always caring. I think that Chestnut mares are pretty. I don't think that colour matters with their attitude.
Reply:true with my sorrel mare!
Reply:Horses all have personalities just like people. Combine their personality with their training (or lack of) and that is what determines whether they are spirited or not; it has nothing to do with their color. I have always heard that a horse with 1 swirl in their forehead is the easiest to train, 2 swirls mean hard to train and 3 swirls mean hard to train but they never forget it. I would imagine this is a myth too.
Reply:Color has nothing to do with temperment, tempermant is individual to each horse.
Reply:No.....color has nothing to do with their temperment.
Reply:High spirited-ness is not related to color in any way. It has a lot to do with their breeding and how they have been treated.



My mare has wonderful temperment as long as she isn't in heat. After she comes into heat, she is extremely high spirited and have a bad attitude to go with it.
Reply:I own a chestnut mare and have been around horses all my life and never have heard that rumor.
Reply:Well when mares are in heat they do. A lot of stallions are high spirited.
Reply:no its not true. color has nothing to do with a horse's temperment. that's only influenced by their genetics and upbringing. it's only a coincidence that all the chestnut mare's i've personally met are nuts. I said the one's I'VE met, so if you have a calm and sweet chestnut mare don't get mad at me for saying that.
Reply:I've never heard that people don't like chestnut mares because they are spirited, but I definetly have known a LOT of people who do not like chestnut mares, and don't think highly of them.



Absolutely everyone I've known with this opinion (myself included) has been on the track in some way shape or form.



I cannot really explain why this opinion came about, but I, too, don't like chestnut mares. I don't particularly like chestnut horses and strive not to own one. I did a have a deep red one once, but he was a gelding %26amp; a great horse. Every chestnut mare I've ever met in my horsey life has been a miserable nasty horse, and I'm not really sure why this is - but they've all been on the track. (Granted, despite that, a few of them were some pretty good riding horses - moody, but still did their jobs ok)



Maybe it's just because some people don't like chestnut horses, and mares are so moody sometimes. I know on the tracks I've been at, chestnut mares were never thought highly of, and they were all moody and mean, but the bay ones never were.



It was mostly a joke for the people I knew-- just jokingly dismissing a chestnut mare. But, maybe this thought process stems from the track? I don't know, really, but I have definetly known people to have it against chestnut mares.

So, I guess a chestnut mare combines the two worst characteristics in some people's mind.
Reply:It has nothing to do with the color.
Reply:Color has nothing to do with it. Someone was misleading you.



Mares tend to be a little bit more difficult to handle in certain situations, but there are always exceptions to that, too.



My friends have a great big black and white spotted mare that their son rides. He's about 9, I think. Anyway, she takes him wherever he wants to go and doesn't kick or bite out on the trails.



Mares, geldings and stallions can be high spirited or calm or anywhere in between, but it has nothing to do with color.
Reply:How on earth could a horse's color have anything to do with their temperament? How they were raised, handled, trained, and (not commonly) what their breed is, can all have something to do with temperament, but not color. I own 2 chestnuts right now, and both of them have the best temperaments around. But I own a bay mare that is high spirited (that came from a neglected environment), should I say she is high spirited because she is bay?? Think about how you sound before you ask something like this.
Reply:No it's just a color. I've been around horse for 17 years and never have heard that. I'm interested in who would have told you it?
Reply:There are lots of myths about a horses color. None are true. Of course there is a chestnut mare that is highly spirited somewhere, I used to lease one in fact.
Reply:doesn't matter about the color
Reply:There is absolutely no truth to that statement.

A good horse is not of a bad color, breed or sex.
Reply:that is true about mares compared to geldings. some can be real cranky. but not all.

hahhaahaha.
Reply:Color has no effect whatsoever.
Reply:I've never heard that before.

I don't believe it either.

Some mares do tend to be spirited, because of being in heat tho.