Who do you think is smarter? Mare, Stallion or Gelding?
At a recent exhibtion at Paint World, the person who was doing the cutting / reining horse seminar said that he had found that mares were the fastest and easiest to train. That they learned faster and retained it better. Kinda of a “show them one time and you are done”. Said that stallions were more like adolescent boys. Talk real tough but go and pout when they are put in their place. And that geldings were the slowest to learn. What is everyone elses thoughts on this?
Just like with people, there are differences in intelligence and this generally has nothing to do with gender. We have stupid men and women in humans, and there are stupid mares, stallions, and geldings.
Each horseperson usually had a different gender they prefer, as you’ve seen. In my observations:
People who need consistency, reliability, and loyalty prefer geldings. A lot of general use ranch horses, children’s horses, pleasure horses, and lower-level show horses are geldings.
People who need a horse with drive and focus tend to lean towards mares.
In cases where you need flash and presence, a lot of people absolutely swear by stallions.
Some people just ‘click’ better with one gender or another. Each gender-and each individual horse-needs to be trained and taught differently, and so some people’s styles mesh better with either mares, stallions, or geldings.
None of that has anything to do with intelligence, though.
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