Cob Mentalities?

Well as I have only owned two Sect d's, a TB/Sect d, an Arab and miniatures my knowledge is limited but I can't remember how many times I have commented that the sec ds are too intelligent for my own good! They are bright and clever at learning your weaknesses and using it to their advantage! I certainly wouldn't call them stupid and some one has already said no horses are stupid we just need to comminicate better with them.
 
Cobs are definitely not thick, perhaps more patient and this is often misconstrued and taken advantage of. I got 'Cobs Can' for Christmas and think it ,makes a lot of sense. He basically says that many cobs are stiff, stubborn lazy plods who are heavy on the forehand because they have been trained to be so and gives advise and exercises to work with a cobs natural way of going and to encourages lightness rather than chasing them forward. He also suggests this method works well with natives and heavier breeds more prone to being heavy in front.

I have been working in hand with my cob (whilst his saddle is being made to measure) and if he doesn't get something it is my problem and for me to try harder to make my message clear. I am realy looking forwards to trying the ridden exercises in 'Cobs Can'.

Back to the OP, most of us who take time to work with our horses and bring them on slowly would be useless as trainers because we wouldn't get results quickly enough to get the horse out on the market whilst there is still some profit to be made. That's why horses who have been started slowly and correctly are so expensive.
 
Cahill, my cob is thick as pig poo....
Takes him forever to "get it".
My *****land however is as smart as they come, and if there is mischief to be had, he will be in the thick of it!
 
Our girl is far from stupid , she has saved my ass on multiple occasions only a few weeks back she dived onto a verge out hacking when a car came flying round the corner she heard it before i did.

She picked leg yielding up on the second time of ever doing it, moves like a star for something that used to pull bow top wagons. I find they are more stubborn than other horses but generally a lot are safe, hence why the go for so much a safe cob now days you could put up for £3500 and people will buy it even if it hasn't done much.
 
I have a true Irish cob and a WBxID. Both are worlds apart in personality and work. My cob can and does work through, long and low beautifully and is a total schoolmaster, with the most sensitive aids listened to and understood. Everybody who has ever ridden him has said how lovely he is, light in the forehand and forward going. My mare, well I'd expected her to be light, sensitive, intelligent eager to learn forward going etc. Nothing of the sort. She'll ignore a leg aid from a new rider for hours if she can get away with it and just plant herself, either in the road or in the school, she's resistant to learning new things and more stubborn than most people when she wants to be. Yet when she gets to know you she'll try anything you ask of her but it takes a while to sink in.

I've had both from youngsters and they've both been treated and trained in similar ways. He gets everything almost first time whereas she will usually argue about it before listening to a person at all! ;)

That said she's turning into a lovely animal and I'd far rather the reluctance to move than one that just takes off with you ;)

Wouldn't change either of them for anything :)
 
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