Dyslexic?
I guess my mind runs backwards… I learned the dressage arena running counter clockwise as:
A
Fat
Black
Mare
Can
Hardly
Ever
Kick
I thought it was:
For the want of a nail the horseshoe was lost
For the want of a shoe the horse was lost
For the want of a horse a soldier was lost
For the want of a soldier a battle was lost
For the loss of a battle a war was lost
All for the want of a nail
Eat. Sleep. Ride.
A leg at each corner - conformation saying, but borrowed by Thellwell.
In reference to jumping:
“Throw your heart over and he (the horse) will follow”
On colors of the horse:
A chestnut horse is hot.
A black horse likes to rear.
A grey horse is suitable for old ladies.
And I don’t remember what the bay horse was…it was something, but I don’t recall…maybe opinionated?
To market, to market
to buy a fat pig.
Home again, home again,
Jiggety jig.
My favorite!
No shame in grabbing mane!
My Mum Always Used To Tell Me…
Hold your horses.
And it’s bad luck to change a horse’s name.
My gelding has three white socks, five cowlicks (two on his forehead, one on each flank, and one on his chest!!), and likes to buck in the air over the jump. (No joke…he’ll launch into the air and kick up in the air, then land with his head between his knees :eek:). When he behaves, though, he’s an awesome jumper!
I have heard the for want saying but when i heard it it went
For want of a nail, A shoe was lost, For want of a shoe the horse was lost, For want of a horse the rider was lost , For want of a rider the war was lost
I’m sure this is one of those threads that was resurrected from the sometimes nefarious “Similar Threads” box but these are cute and clever…
…definitely sharing some of these with my little Up Downers!
[QUOTE=Kato;3019008]
For want of a nail
the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe
the horse was lost.
For want of a horse
the rider was lost.
For want of a rider
the battle was lost.
For want of a battle
the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want
of a horseshoe nail.[/QUOTE]
This is the one I learned!
I’m not sure if I have this quite right but
Definition of a Horse. “A large mammal looking for an expensive and inconvenient way to die.”
If you want to make a small fortune on horses start with a large fortune.
Bumper sticker on my car “My Horse Ate my Paycheck.”
And based on my experience, I totally don’t agree with the Chestnut Mare thing. My girl is an OTTB Chestnut Mare and she’s wonderful. Super smart and level headed. Athletic and beautiful too. And sweet. I love her.
I also really like “No good horse is a bad color.”
The old gray mare, she ain’t what she used to be 
i find this applies to me more every day!
[QUOTE=Sarah616;3018699]
I think you’re looking for Benjamin Franklin: “For the want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for the want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost”[/QUOTE] Not sure it was Ben, it might have been Shakespeare.
[QUOTE=risingstarfarm;3022644]
Tell a gelding, ask a stallion, discuss it with a mare![/QUOTE]
Tell a Gelding
Ask a Stallion
Discuss it with a Mare
Pray if its a Pony!
What a great thread!
My husbands favorite saying: How do you make a small fortune in horses? Start with a large one.
“As near to a living flame as horses get, and horses get closer to this than anything else. It was not merely that he smashed his opposition, sometimes by a hundred lengths, or that he set world records or that he cared not a Tinker’s Curse for weight, or track, or horses…
All horses, and particularly all stallions, like to run, exultant in their strength and power. Most of them run within themselves, as children at play. But Man o’ War, loose in his paddock at Faraway, dug in as if the prince of all the fallen angels was at his throatlatch, and great chunks of sod sailed up behind the haunches of power. Watching, you felt that there had never been, nor could ever be again, a horse like this.”
Joe Palmer
Editor of The Blood Horse
A very specific quote, but one of my favorites from when sports writers were poets.
Another favorite is by Joe Hirsch, so simple yet perfect it gives me chills:
“Once upon a time there was a horse named Kelso. But only once.”
[QUOTE=Foxtrot’s;3020876]
Stolen - this time from the eventing forum:
“It’s not the 'unting that 'urts 'em,
It’s the 'ammer, 'ammer, 'ammer on the 'ard 'i way.”
Gosh that’s hard to type.[/QUOTE]
FT, I haven’t read the rest of the thread yet, so don’t know if someone posted the version that my mum taught me:
It’s not the 'opping over 'edges that 'urts the 'orses 'ooves,
It’s the 'ammer 'ammer 'ammer on the 'ard 'iway
D.
I have always wondered if “barefoot & pregnant” started as reference to broodmares.
The nail proverb is old, but Ben Franklin has a version in Poor Richard’s almanac.
