What do you prefer?

[Soapweed]

Too true FH. I think mares have more desire to get the job done, more fire. Once they are proven you know whether they are brood mare material or not. I always chuckle when these 'I won't have a mare on the place' guys brag up their old soon to be retired geldings, what a super horse he is, etc. I always ask them what kind of luck they're having raising foals off that gelding now that he's retired? Where do they think these super geldings come from?

I suppose a feller could get a little DNA out of one of those good old geldings and clone the horse, in this modern day and age. :wink:

 

[DJL]

We'll see how it works with Charmayne's horse. A lot of expense to make a gelding foal!

 

[RoperAB]

I always thought that made a lot of sense. I hate it when someone
has a mare they can't ride so they breed her.

That or they keep there horses that dont get injured to ride and breed the ones that go lame. Believe it or not but there is one guy I know that does that.

I used to be one of those guys who avoided being seen on a mare at all costs. Then when I started training other peoples horses all anybody brought me was mares. :lol: Everybody that knew me thought it was quite funny because they knew how I felt about mares.
Then I got educated!
:lol: :lol:

 

[randiliana]

I like a mare. My favorite horse right now is a gelding, and he has that fire. I have ridden a few laaaazzzzy geldings, but rarely a lazy mare. They just have that little bit of extra jazz to them. All the mares I have ever had had good manners. But I think a lot of it is how they are handled, and mine didn't get away with any nonsense!