Cleveland Bays, do they make good Comp horses?

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As per title, they have a look that I like- Old fashioned, well boned quality but I love to compete.

Now, varying degrees of CB blood may bring out different qualities, as in a CB x TB may be a little sportier than a pure bred- Or is that not true?

Of course, no horse is the same but as a breed standard, how would you rate them?

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To be honest the pure breds don't have the speed of a TB to compete at the high levels, however they will take you around a course.

Stressage - there are quite a few out there doing stressage very very succesfully (Donkey's dad for one - she has not inherited that aptitude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Come on Horse and Hound, you like to pick up features discussed on here - about time you recognised the CB
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It's Cleveland Bay overload on here today! I've had six over the years, the best one (so far!) being William Hill - he even gets a mention on the Pembridge website which I didn't know until 5 minutes ago. I like them with 1/8 CB for eventing, but it depends what you want to do with them. They're great characters and I've always got on with them very well, but maybe that's just years of practice!
 
I've known 3 1/2 CB and all were lovely horses who taught me a lot!

The first was Ziggy (I think she was by Forest Farnon out of a TB mare) and I had her as a 4 year old way back when I was 16 (not me in the pic) - she could turn her hand to anything, was extremely fast and would go for miles!
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Mikey and Kevin are full brothers, both by a TB stallion (Michael's Revenge) and out of a CB mare. Mikey did BE PN and N, he could do the height and technicality easily, but wasn't very quick - unfortunately he had to be PTS at age 9 due to major arthritis in pelvis and hips which we believe to be due to a long period of box rest as a youngster. Again, not me in the pic!

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'Kevin' had to be sold before my friend who owned him did too much as she had to move abroad. He was also huge (about 17.3hh) and too tall! He was going nicely on the flat and jumping coloured and XC fences when he was sold.

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CBs make good TB crosses and I had one - but they can have 'attitude' - i.e. willing but a slight stubborn streak - almost akin to what some would refer to as a 'pony' attitude - but on the other hand the 'pony' bit usually also leads to a good deal of soundness
 
Exactly, of the few that are for sale the quality is poor.
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MissTwinkle......I am on a mission for Royal Lancashire next year, LOL.
 
My old show cob was part (half I think) Cleveland Bay.
He was 4th at HOYS last year with his new owners. I'd never considered one before I got him. He was a very obliging sort of horse and I would highly recommend a CB cross.
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My old show cob was part (half I think) Cleveland Bay.
He was 4th at HOYS last year with his new owners. I'd never considered one before I got him. He was a very obliging sort of horse and I would highly recommend a CB cross.

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What a stunning horse
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There are quite a few crosses around, however, due to small narrow minded people saying they are stubborn, not worth owning etc they have had a bad wrap and people tend to call them TB crosses.

Go to Horsemart and put the word Cleveland Bay in the search function, they have about 12 for sale, not sure they are all true CB's or people have said it looks like a CB.

Pure bred mares are like gold dust as the breeders hang onto them, or people like me who just worship them!!!

http://www.horsemart.co.uk/DisplayResultsHorses.asp
 
How can 2 chestnut horses by out of a cleveland bay mare? Surely the mare would be true breeding bay so would always have bay offspring, she must have only been part bred to produce chestnut foals?
 
I have a cleveland Bay cross. She used to do a lot of show jumping in her younger days but since we have had her, she has been schooled a bit and now starting to shine in a showing career (started age 15!) She is a lovely put together horse and really excels in hunter classes. Obviously she does have her traits which i have noticed in another cleveland bay i used to know. She can be very clingy with her best friend but is a responsive ride so at the start of a cross country, if you say go she goes and she hacks out alone but i suppose you can't take that trait out but it does make her put in a brilliant pairs round with her friend!
I think that it really depends on the amount of cleveland bay in the breeding and what disipline you would like to do.
 
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There are quite a few crosses around, however, due to small narrow minded people saying they are stubborn, not worth owning etc they have had a bad wrap and people tend to call them TB crosses.

Go to Horsemart and put the word Cleveland Bay in the search function, they have about 12 for sale, not sure they are all true CB's or people have said it looks like a CB.

Pure bred mares are like gold dust as the breeders hang onto them, or people like me who just worship them!!!

http://www.horsemart.co.uk/DisplayResultsHorses.asp

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It was one of the places that I had a look to see what they had on offer, and as you see the selection isn't great, a couple of noticeable but most aren't anything to shout home about and some, well they don't even look remotely like a CB
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How did you track down the donkey?
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