What do you prefer to ride, mares or geldings?
Check with the owner.
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Would love to know what the original OP was to warrant findeight’s response! :lol:
Mares, all the way, for me!
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I don’t have a preference…depends on the horse
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I prefer mares when shopping. However, I don’t dislike geldings at all. mares and I just click.
No preference.
Love a good mare, love a good gelding.
I know many people who prefer geldings. If I HAD to pick, I’d say I’d lean slightly more towards mares.
I prefer mares. However, that said, I just picked up a gelding that I really think I am going to enjoy. So, I guess I broke my preference :lol:
No preference for me either.
No preference.
A mare who likes me.
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I did a poll not too long ago about this. Mares won @ 39% (based on the 84 people who participated in the survey).
I wonder if people could lean towards mares because the majority of equestrians are female? Just a thought!
Honestly I just like their attitude, and their different way of thinking
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I love my mates. They just have a ton of personality. And once you have their respect and love they are yours for life.
Ironically when I went horse shopping with my trainer I told her the only thing I didn’t want was a grey gelding. Well now I’m on my second. I’ve done great with both but I still prefer my mares. They are less spooky, braver, and more inquisitive. Every gelding I’ve owned has been a chicken s…t.
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Mares. I have no idea what the question was, but “mares” is always the answer.
I don’t feel like most equestrians prefer mares. I see more geldings here for dressage and even for jumping. You can push them around more than a mare.
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I have said geldings for my whole riding life (and I’m not so young anymore) until I got my first mare last year. I am team mare now.
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See, you can’t ever tell anyone “the only thing I don’t want” because that’s what you’ll end up with.
I’ve had the opposite experience. My geldings have all been steady-eddies, very reliable, not spooky. My mares have been a tad more spooky, and my current mare is very spooky.
I’ve always been a mare person. When I got back in to riding as an adult I also said “I do not want a mare, looking for a gelding only.” Came home with a mare.
Either one. I go more for personality. I like a horse who is forward and spunky.
Mares all the way. I’ve never met a gelding that I considered to be “smart” or even particularly attentive–and I am an old woman who has met a lot of horses.
I absolutely believe the old saw about how “Mares give 100 percent effort, 50 percent of the time. Geldings give 50 percent effort, 100 percent of the time.”
I keep my horses at home and there is SO MUCH LESS DRAMA if everyone is the same gender, FWIW.
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