Cob/Tb or cob/WB crosses? Pictures/ideas anyone?

[Kacey88]

Anybody out there have Irish cob crosses? I'm thinking of crossing my Irish cob cross mare with a TB or WB, have no idea which way to go! I'd love to hear what you guys think! Maybe you have pictures?

Oh, Happy Christmas!

 

[ChwaraeTeg]

I love Irish horses. We had an Irish Sports Horse here for a few years.
As for breeding, the choice of sire would depend on what you want to use the offspring for,
ride and drive or eventing ,riding school, hunting, showing, trekking etc etc.

Happy holiday period and 2012
Teg

 

[Kacey88]

Thanks Teg,

I would to breed a Riding Club all rounder, but I also have a great interest in showing. I realise that because my mare has no recorded breeding, it would be naive of me to think I could breed a show horse. I suppose a small hunter type would be ideal. My mare is bay tobiano and I'm having her tested to see if she'd homozygous. A coloured show horse is far more versatile from what I have witnessed as a keen observer the last few years!

 

[ChwaraeTeg]

Ooo, she sounds lovely. Have you any pictures of her ?

 

[elsielouise]

Here's mine. Hanoverian x cob. She is Fabulous apart from tank like now and then.

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a132/elsielouise/dressagewarmup.jpg

 

[Luci07]

I have exactly what you are talking about. TB (16.2) stallion and gray Irish cob mare (15.1) resulted in my mare (16.3) bay. Mare evented up to intermediate, graded HIS, got to med level dressage and bred a colt foal to Di Maggio. I think she is possibly a little light of bone for her height, very deep girth but fantastic mare. She is now 22 ( nearly 23 now!). Her competing career was sadly stopped after she developed arthritis in her neck. Having tracked down her breeder it transprires that the woman I bought my mare from had had a really nasty fall resulting in a bad neck injury to my mare. Sad as mare was on fine form. Nothing wrong with her apart from than that still although we do have to keep a close eye on her as she really really feels the cold. She will also never live out so will always need to be stabled and is a bit of a Diva now....but well deserved!


I can't copy in the link but if you go to my account you can see a recent photo of Madam.

She stopped at intermediate as didn't make the speed albeit getting consistently double clears

 

[QueenOfCadence]

Here's mine. He's a lovely sporthorse type (does EM dressage, open showing, open equitation and jumped CA with his previous owner). He's only 14hhish though but he's competing comfortably with me in Juniors against horses nearly twice his size. He's also currently 17 years old ^.^

He's a cobber x TB (TB dam, Cob sire):

Here he is waiting at his paddock gate for me like he does every afternoon. Sorry you can't really see his confo because he's standing like an idiot

At provincial show sporting his province's blankie

Half pass

I don't have too many ridden photies of him (because 99% of them are copyrighted and because no one is ever there to capture my epic moments ^_^)

I'm definitely pro Cob x TB

 

[Kacey88]

Yes Teg, she's the only one on my profile! I'll put up some new photos soon. When I first got her she hadn't been schooled at all, or ridden in nearly 6 months! She's so willing and good tempered that I've been able to bring her along with the help of my instructor. And I hadn't ridden in years!

 

[Jackson]

Look at the guy in my signiture, he's pretty much what you're describing

 

[leflynn]

I used to ride a cob/tb cross and he was a big gentle giant mostly! He definately had cob thinking days and TB thinking days tho


gullie by le_flynn, on Flickr


gullie 2 by le_flynn, on Flickr

 

[Kacey88]

Oh wow QueenofCadence, your boy is absolutely gorgeous! He doesn't looks much taller than that in pictures. My dad bred a full TB before, I don't think she made 14.2!

Elsielouise, yours is beautiful! Wow, I'm very hopeful about what my little cob might have some day!

Luci07 your girl sounds amazing! That's quite the height increase from that pair too!

My girl is 15hh, what height do you guys think I should cross her too? I think I ideally would like something a small bit taller. Something with small hunter/working hunter potential would be my ideal! Its a gamble though really I suppose. Any thoughts on stallion height?

 

[QueenOfCadence]

Oh wow QueenofCadence, your boy is absolutely gorgeous! He doesn't looks much taller than that in pictures. My dad bred a full TB before, I don't think she made 14.2!

Thanx Kasey! He does tend to look bigger and then dissapoints everyone when they meet him and they can see over his withers . He's a very LW specimen though (both his dam and his sire were LW).

I think a good stally height might be 16.2hh or above

 

[Luci07]

Thanx Kasey! He does tend to look bigger and then dissapoints everyone when they meet him and they can see over his withers . He's a very LW specimen though (both his dam and his sire were LW).

I think a good stally height might be 16.2hh or above

Yes but using a 16.2 stallion on a 15.1 cob resulted in my 16.3 mare! Maybe look at around the 16 hand mark!

 

[ridefast]

My friend has a cob x tb mare, 14.1, she's got a nice solid cob body just without the hair, lovely to handle on the ground but absolutely mental, very nappy and irrational, anything and nothing can set her off into rearing fits and she'll stop when she feels like it, rider makes no difference. She also has typical awful tb feet, very flat and crumbly. However she's had 2 foals - 1 by a trotter and 1 by an arab who have both turned into lovely sane horses

 

[Kacey88]

I was thinking exactly that, 16 hands or 16.1 max! I don't want to risk any problems with her foaling either. I'm only 5 foot 2, ideally I would keep her foal, but I don't think I would look right on something taller than 16 hands! I'd need a step ladder for a 16.3hh horse! I still can't decide on TB or WB, maybe I should stay with her Irish breeding though and go for a TB. More chance of ending up with a nice show hunter that way, right? Aren't they usually part TB? Can't wait for the new showing season!

 

[QueenOfCadence]

I'd say go for a TB x ! Very safe and you're practically garanteed a sporthorse !

 

[Kacey88]

I'd say go for a TB x ! Very safe and you're practically garanteed a sporthorse !

That's what I'm leaning towards and I really like the look of Watermill Swatch. He's not too far from me either. I can't get over how pretty your guys head is!

 

[classic_astra]

my filly at 20 months mum is cob x welsh d n dad is WB

 

[Gleeful Imp]

Annie, who is out of a shire x connie mare by a tbxwb colt (by a rather serious sire) who popped over a fence to say hello ..... I think she qualifies as a cobxtb or cobxwb!!!

Boy has she got a massive shoulder, but you should see her float ....

 

[Rudey]

I think it is a really nice cross to have - in my experience the type is very versitile. I have two of them!

I am unsure of my 18 year old bay's breeding, I bought him as a hunter type - I suspect he is thoroughbred cross some sort of cob. He is a very similiar stamp of your typical ISH.

This is Sammi...

I do know the breeding of my coloured Rox, and I have photo's for you too so you can see what he was bred from, and what he looked like over the last three years. Rox is a french thoroughbred crossed with a traditional coloured cob.

This is his sire....

His dam....

....and Rox as a yearling....

Two year old....

...and as he is now, as a three year old....

 

[Kacey88]

Rox is fabulous! What a stunner. Its fun when coloured horses are involved, look how different his pattern is to his dads!

And Connie to, she seems really well put together. I'm nearly certain now that TB is the way to go now, thinking of keeping it 100% Irish too.

Thanks for all your help!

 

[Rudey]

Rox is fabulous! What a stunner. Its fun when coloured horses are involved, look how different his pattern is to his dads!

And Connie to, she seems really well put together. I'm nearly certain now that TB is the way to go now, thinking of keeping it 100% Irish too.

Thanks for all your help!

Thank you. I am really pleased how he is turning out, he's not too fine, and not overly chunky - just what I had hoped for! Funnily enough, his half brother Rebel was born the same year, had the same sire, but his dam was a very fine thoroughbred in comparison to Rox's dam - and he was a right chunk! Not knowing the parents, you would have thought Rox's mum was fine - but no! xx