Clyde x Cob

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Hi everyone,

I recently bought a 3 year old clyde x cob who is currently 14.2. I was just wondering everyones opinions on how big she could get/what she will end up like. Unfortunately i only have a pic of the dam but not the sire. :)
 
Can we have a picture of your new pony please? It's a sort of tax before you get an opinion!


We'd need to know height of sire and dam. And then its just guess work. You could try the string test.

' measuring the horse's leg length (from the knee to the coronet band) and adding that length to the horse's current height"
 
Thankyou he was amazing. Really light on his feet too. Clipped out as grey due to his roaness and we bought him as a 3 yo without even sitting on him. Came from a chap Up North who had a roan Clydesdale stallion and several gypsy cob mares he ran with. He had 3 strapping sons who started them and they always had good mouths and would tie up anywhere and had manners. We had a few from him over the years.

Everything was more straightforward then too. We'd fetch them and they would have a 2/3 hour journey I'd give them 30 mins to chill then off with the feathers, the beards, pull their manes whilst they were too tired to object, then tack on and a v short ride maybe 15 mins. None of this allowing to settle lol. That way they were too tired to object, everything was done with hardly any stress. Then after that it was easy. Always took the same approach and it worked. Guess folks would have a shissy fit these days 😂
 
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Could grow to anything, depending on the parents. My Clyde was over 18hh, although a solid three inches of that was wither. A Clyde mare I handled at some shows was 16.2 and a cob can be anything under the sun!

You can’t go wrong with Clyde blood, they’re the best of the heavies by a mile.
 
kayeandGin said:
Hi everyone,

I recently bought a 3 year old clyde x cob who is currently 14.2. I was just wondering everyones opinions on how big she could get/what she will end up like. Unfortunately i only have a pic of the dam but not the sire. :)
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Horses will gestate and grow to the size of the mare, it’s one of the reasons c-sections are rarely (never?) done on horses. If you know what the dam is like, that should give you a good idea.

There’s a word for it but I can’t recall it!
 
Ditchjumper2 said:
Thankyou he was amazing. Really light on his feet too. Clipped out as grey due to his roaness and we bought him as a 3 yo without even sitting on him. Came from a chap Up North who had a roan Clydesdale stallion and several gypsy cob mares he ran with. He had 3 strapping sons who started them and they always had good mouths and would tie up anywhere and had manners. We had a few from him over the years.

Everything was more straightforward then too. We'd fetch them and they would have a 2/3 hour journey I'd give them 30 mins to chill then off with the feathers, the beards, pull their manes whilst they were too tired to object, then tack on and a v short ride maybe 15 mins. None of this allowing to settle lol. That way they were too tired to object, everything was done with hardly any stress. Then after that it was easy. Always took the same approach and it worked. Guess folks would have a shissy fit these days 😂
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They just dont come like that anymore
 
kayeandGin said:
Hi everyone,

I recently bought a 3 year old clyde x cob who is currently 14.2. I was just wondering everyones opinions on how big she could get/what she will end up like. Unfortunately i only have a pic of the dam but not the sire. :)
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Apologies everyone! I have realised my pictures haven't loaded! Her Dam is pic on right
 

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Parrotperson said:
Can we have a picture of your new pony please? It's a sort of tax before you get an opinion!


We'd need to know height of sire and dam. And then its just guess work. You could try the string test.

' measuring the horse's leg length (from the knee to the coronet band) and adding that length to the horse's current height"
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sorry i've posted it further down i hadn't realised they hadn't uploaded. No info on site unfortunately and only pic of dam, not height :(
 
15.2 but rides bigger and is very deep.

Have you done the string measurement on your young horse, it is pretty accurate give or take a few cms. With the Clyde x cob breeding your youngster will be deep when mature so even if not a tall horse you will have plenty to sit on and behind.
 

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15.2 but rides bigger and is very deep.
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I am a total ignoramus in these things but that is exactly what I picture when the old pony books describe a nice cob!* That horse is SO smart.

* to clarify, a cob that will hunt as well as doing all the jobs, rather than a black and white hairy thing put together from bits of different horses.
 
Widgeon said:
I am a total ignoramus in these things but that is exactly what I picture when the old pony books describe a nice cob!* That horse is SO smart.

* to clarify, a cob that will hunt as well as doing all the jobs, rather than a black and white hairy thing put together from bits of different horses.
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Thank you, she is a true cob but does take a bit keeping smart. God bless Heinegar and Andis clippers ! I've had her a long time now and have always kept an eye out for another one like her but they are few and far between. She isn't conformationally correct but she holds her own at riding club level, I would love to have been able to breed from her, but the risk was too high as she has a history of colon displacement.

The black and white etc hairy types are not cobs, historically they were called Vanners, but that term is rarely heard now. True cobs have quality in a workman like appearance and the vast majority will have a big dose of ID in them

Cob breeding is a lottery, I tried to breed one by using a black Vanner type mare to a top RID and ended up with a small hunter not a cob. I could turn it into a lightweight cob if I piled weight on and did some careful leg clipping to give illusion of more bone. But that would be a welfare issue and not something I would do.
 
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