I have two wonderful chestnut mares!! They both are strong, talented, safe mares that try their hearts out for me! Love them!
I have a chestnut mare. In her younger years she wasn’t difficult in terms of attitude, but she was nervous/anxious. She’s never been b*tchy. However, she is spayed. 
It happened before I got her. The only chestnut mare at my barn right now is really tough and also very talented. She is for sale but will be a very difficult sale.
It’s all anecdotal, for sure, but I would not get a chestnut mare OTTB if I were considering it a resale project. Just too risky from the stereotype.
I LOVE my beautiful Chestnut OTTB mare. She is a joy. What other horse has a theme song like this?
The advantage of the chestnut mare stereotype is that there are some good buys out there…their loss is your gain.
Well, a few months after we bought my son a chestnut PONY mare I swore I would NEVER have another. Now, having had her a couple of years I can without reservation say that she is the BEST pony I have ever known!!
Their partnership is amazing and she has taken care of him in situations where I know another pony would have dumped him and high-tailed it to the barn! Now, girlfriend does NOT like to have her girth tightened and if you are going to swat her with a dressage whip you BETTER have a good reason and she can make ugly faces with the best of them, but that pony will KILL herself to try and figure out what her boy wants from her and at certain times you can see by her expression that she’s thinking “hang on boy, I’ve got this!” Everywhere we go people offer to buy her, but she is most definitely NOT for sale!
Wow. This thread was resurrected from awhile ago.
Chasing Piper has turned out to be smart, opinionated, lovely mover and has a great work ethic. She has her quirky moments. A friend, whose horse is on stall rest, has been riding her. She thinks that I have a nice horse.
I am hoping to take Piper to some CT’s, un-recognized events and maybe Starter events this year. Tess will go BN. It looks like it could be a fun year. :yes:
I have heard this over the years and never really put much stock in it. I think it is more the way the horse is handled. I have known exactly one chestnut mare in my many years of horse showing /owning that fit the predjudice. She was off track and definitely had a screw loose. She was beautiful and had lots of chrome, but would fly off the handle at the least little thing. The last thing she did before my trainer told the people that owned her to get rid of her was to get cast in her stall. She would not be calmed and continued to thrash until she knocked the whole front of the stall down. As you can tell from the pictures I don’t hold much stock in the predjudice. http://www.flickr.com/photos/simbalism/11819160916/ (20 yo TB mare who has done everything from show hunters, low level dressage and CT’s, fox hunting, team penning. As you can see she is a total lunatic at shows. http://www.flickr.com/photos/simbalism/6542500701/
Here is my new girl that is OTTB and green, but the quietest horse I have sat on. http://www.flickr.com/photos/simbalism/11390569383/
Unfortunately for general sale purposes many people don’t like mares period much less the dreaded chestnut. Good luck with selling your horse.
There’s a cute little chestnut TB mare at the private polo place I’ve been helping out at.
I think the palomino coloring would better suit her personalty than being a redhead though (she’s very ditzy). Well… and very lazy. Absolutely no respect for the rider’s leg.
Everyone who knows me was shocked that I just recently bought a chestnut mare, and she’s not even a TB (WB/QH). No real reports yet given our less than optimal weather and the fact that she still needs to get in better shape, but from her prior owner, I don’t get the sense that she fits the sterotype
I truly believe that the chestnut mare stereotype is just that, a stereotype. Those of us who subscribe will tend to find confirming evidence… Tis the nature of our brains…
Just my 2 cents. 
^^^^^ EXACTLY. Winding Down. I certainly spend enough time trying to dislodge the OTTB sterotypes, given that the calmest, sanest horses I’ve ever dealt with are all OTTBs.
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I have one wonderful chestnut mare! And she is exactly as you have described your two. Couldn’t ask for a better horse!!!
old thread but I’ll add. It is a just a stereotype. I currently own 5 chestnut mares…and have owned others in the past. I also own a chestnut geldiing. Chestnut is my least favorite color…but I don’t pick my horse based on color EVER.
Color of their fur means nothing.
I was actively searching for a red headed mare when I last went horse shopping. Something to hide the dust and dirt and not require so much scrubbing the morning of a meet!
This is one stereotype, perpetuated by people who cannot be called horsemen/women, that makes me …well, mad. It is idiotic.
Guess these people would never go looking for a Quarterhorse - they re almost all red.
i have a bay mare that has WAAAY more attitude than my friends Chestnut!
Being a redhead lady myself, I always find this amusing…I have a palomino mare, does that mean she’s stupid? I can answer that right now, no, she’s not. She’s actually REALLY smart. And really opinionated and quirky. And acts somewhat dog-like much of the time.
Come to think of it, I haven’t known many chestnut mares. But I did know one. Her name was Maude. My dad’s bff trained racing TB’s and she was in training at the same time as my horse. She was scraping 18hh as a 3-4yr old and MEAN. I think her name should have been Red Devil.
