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“It’s a long way from his heart” = that injury is negligible[/QUOTE]
I say that all the time!
“‘You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink’ is an old saying that is ironic to most horse owners because everyone knows that if the horse didn’t want to, he wouldn’t have allowed himself to be lead to water in the first place.” (my personal favorite)
“You can lead a horse to water, but if you can get him to roll over and float on his back, why then you’ve got something!”
“You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him sell.”
(^a few variations on the “you can lead a horse” quote^)
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I always heard 2 cowlicks (double whorl) meant trouble.[/QUOTE]
Hmm… Maybe Bob is hiding things. He’s got two side-by-side cowlicks, but may be the most pleasant horse I’ve ever been involved with.
Those old sayings about cowlicks, red mares, etc. are so unfair. There are good and bad horses with these traits, but if one has a difficult one with two cow-licks, because of the saying, all horses get tarred with the same brush. I say it is stereotyping and politically incorrect and the animal rights should step up. 
To this day lots of people will not buy a red mare (I happen to be biased - love mine.)
I have one that has two whorls side by side in the exact center of her forehead right between her eyes One of the whorls is a hair higher than the other but they are almost even. She is the coolest horse I have ever owned. She is extremely smart, brave and sensible about most things. She is extremely sensitive and hot though. She also jumps really cute She is honestly the least complicated, nicest horse I have ever owned
Keep one leg on each side and face the front.
One white foot buy him
Two white feet try him
Three white feet doubt him
Four white feet do without him
Four white feet and a long white nose,
Knock him on the head and feed him to the crows
Is the version I learned
I remember encountering “throw your heart over the fence and the horse will follow” in Afraid to Ride by CW Anderson.
Are there sayings about black horses being bad/good for nothing? Feel like I read something about that in a book or two I read lately – a Lyndon Stacy one, I think, and another one that I can’t remember. (Out of curiousity, I just googled “horse quotes” and came up with a bunch of sites. Here are a few quotes I found that amused me.)
[I]
Riding: The art of keeping a horse between you and the ground. ~Author Unknown
It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican Proverb
It’s always been and always will be the same in the world: The horse does the work and the coachman is tipped. ~Author Unknown
A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into
a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment. ~Duke of Edinburgh
A horse’s eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any
moment be translated into action. ~EV Lucas
On horseback he seemed to require as many hands as a Hindu god, at least
four for clutching the reins, and two more for patting the horse soothingly
on the neck. ~Saki[/I]
I used to hear “the closer the whorl is to the center of the eyes, the smarter the horse is.”
A couple of my favorites from the track:
“Ain’t no body can hold no hoss.”
“Ain’t no hoss can run faster than a body can ride.”
There is always a curse that follows the chestnut mares.
Can someone explain to me the meaning/significance of the phrase “Come to Jesus Meeting?”
thanks!
My dressage ring rhyme was always:
All
King
Edward’s
Horses
Can
Make
Beautiful
FOALS
This isn’t exactly a saying (as you can see from the length… 
) but my former dressage coach, Sue Ramsay, wrote this poem which I have always liked:
ON LEADING OUR HORSE
There’s a neat little saying that I heard from afar;
“Show me who your friends are and I’ll tell you who you are”.
Adapt these small word with a few minor changes,
To leading our horses, and you’ll spot some dangers!
There are horses that drag like a runaway train,
And ‘anchors’ that simply will not move their frame.
The ‘bouncer’ who jumps up and down at your side,
The type who swings off the shank and steps wide.
The one who yanks back dislocating your arm,
That son of a gun who’s just plain too strong.
With neck to the outside, he tromps on your feet,
Push, shove and squish you with rank disrespect!
Don’t forget the spoiled brats who downright attack;
The ones who won’t stop - or who stop for a stretch…
Those horses who bite at the drop of a hat,
And ten lunge away as you cry out ‘you wretch!’
Some of us put a chain over the nose,
Some under the chin - or wherever it goes…
Perhaps we should look for a clue to this puzzle?
Such as using our heads instead of our muscle!
For these problems lie not with the horse per se,
As how our horse leads is a dead giveaway
Of how much we know and how much we have thought…
Our horse being the product of what WE have taught!
Any horse that will lead in a most perfect way
Neither drags nor hangs back, nor bites or runs away.
He stays at your side at the gait you command
And remains ‘on the halter’, so light in your hand…
Her horses always put each foot exactly where she wanted no matter where they were…
What a great poem L&T! I’ll have to save that one.
One of my young students wrote a funny little poem when she was getting ready for her first show. We always tell our kids to run through a check list while they are riding- are my heals down, are my thumbs on top, are my eyes up, am I sitting straight, etc. So I told her to run through the check list and the next day she came back with this poem to help her remember-
Heals, reins, back and brains,
Don’t forget your eyes.
Must be tough, don’t get rough,
And do it with a smile!
I think she was about 11 yrs old when she wrote it. It was too cute.
Hello again GWF! And I see you’re up 100 posts since I talked to you last.
I have an old favorite. It was said here on COTH…I don’t know if it was borrowed from elsewhere. I don’t recall the exact quote but, in regards to dealing with those who are skeptic of the difficulty found in horsebackriding…
Tell them it’s just like skiing, where the hill does all the work.
Hey EqOb! yea… I’ll have to ask nater the hater if I can change my member name to-
G - Not a loser b/c I have 600 posts - WF :lol:
a few more
-You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t stop him from rolling in it!
-Horses give us the wings we lack.
-The winds of heaven are those which blow between a horse’s ears.
I love cheesy/corny horse quotes!
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Can someone explain to me the meaning/significance of the phrase “Come to Jesus Meeting?”
thanks![/QUOTE]
It means that the horse is going to have the fear of God put into him and will quickly realize it’s much better to just listen and behave.
I had always heard double whorls in the middle of the horses head meant they were lucky. :lol:
“Too far from his heart to kill him!”
“Winners never quit and quitters never win” - from my first trainer
“For a horse trust you, you must trust the horse”
“You cannot train a horse with shouts and then expect it to answer a whisper”
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more than two cowlicks on a horses head means theyre fast and unpredictable
anyone have an example to prove this one? haha ;)[/QUOTE]
mine has 3 :lol:
