11bluewolf
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Just for fun! Show me your fit cobs and how you keep them fit!
Cobs can! Your fit cobs
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FfionWinnie
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Did you write this thread for me 
'Twas nothing she says:
Flying changes with the turbo on!
See more at www.facebook.com/TeamSuperCob
'Twas nothing she says:
Flying changes with the turbo on!
See more at www.facebook.com/TeamSuperCob
11bluewolf
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Did you write this thread for me
'Twas nothing she says:
Flying changes with the turbo on!
See more at www.facebook.com/TeamSuperCob
Wow i must have! They both look very cool, how often do you exercise them and what do they do?
FfionWinnie
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Daisy the coloured is out every day because she has a muscle myopathy and needs very regular exercise. She has adlib hay and 2kgs of coolstance copra and 2kgs of alfalfa pellets per day and does not graze grass.
Peaches the idiot, I mean Welsh is turned out at the moment as I had an accident and can't risk another fall for a few months (albeit it wasn't her I fell off, it was Daisy!) but usually she does 5 days a week. She's not a great doer over the winter and is better on summer grass, strangely when I first met her she was absolutely obese and I've never managed to get her fat whatever I've done.
Peaches the idiot, I mean Welsh is turned out at the moment as I had an accident and can't risk another fall for a few months (albeit it wasn't her I fell off, it was Daisy!) but usually she does 5 days a week. She's not a great doer over the winter and is better on summer grass, strangely when I first met her she was absolutely obese and I've never managed to get her fat whatever I've done.
Damnation
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Look up "Omar Rabia" on Facebook, his lovely coloured cob Ketchup does all the advanced dressage movements including Piaffe, Passage and Spanish walk!!
She is lush
She is lush
vam
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Always happy to post about my old super cob. 14.3hh worked 6 days a week, hacking up to about 1 ½ most days including good hills and road work, schooling 1 -2 times a week, competing most weekends (sj). Was well schooled, transitions off a thought, safe but such fun. Fed on hifi and comp mix, was out on good grazing all day and had a couple of sections of hay at night. Not the way people would keep a cob now I dont think but she never had a days sickness or lameness in the nearly 15 years I had her, most of which I was learning as I went!
At her heaviest but super fit in her early to mid teens, she never lost the apple butt.
About where she stayed weight wise (very old pic) she muscled up behind more as she got older.
Never could tame her mane thou....
At her heaviest but super fit in her early to mid teens, she never lost the apple butt.
About where she stayed weight wise (very old pic) she muscled up behind more as she got older.
Never could tame her mane thou....
11bluewolf
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Always happy to post about my old super cob. 14.3hh worked 6 days a week, hacking up to about 1 ½ most days including good hills and road work, schooling 1 -2 times a week, competing most weekends (sj). Was well schooled, transitions off a thought, safe but such fun. Fed on hifi and comp mix, was out on good grazing all day and had a couple of sections of hay at night. Not the way people would keep a cob now I don’t think but she never had a day’s sickness or lameness in the nearly 15 years I had her, most of which I was learning as I went!
At her heaviest but super fit in her early to mid teens, she never lost the apple butt.
About where she stayed weight wise (very old pic) she muscled up behind more as she got older.
Never could tame her mane thou....
Love the last two pics of her jumping, she's flying!
LeannePip
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Oooh I love a cobs thread!
This is my PBW, She's done bits of everything, and is great fun!
She worked 5-6 days a week with me mixture of hacking/ schooling. was a pretty good door so just had daily turnout, haylege and a small token feed
This is my PBW, She's done bits of everything, and is great fun!
She worked 5-6 days a week with me mixture of hacking/ schooling. was a pretty good door so just had daily turnout, haylege and a small token feed
tiga71
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Izzy, 18 year old, 15.1 cob of indeterminate parentage. Born in rescue centre after dam rescued in foal.
The last picture is a few years ago. He hunts, does endurance, cross country, jumping, trec, working equitation, gymkhana and cattle mustering on Dartmoor. Whatever we can find to excite us. He is a cracking horse.
The last picture is a few years ago. He hunts, does endurance, cross country, jumping, trec, working equitation, gymkhana and cattle mustering on Dartmoor. Whatever we can find to excite us. He is a cracking horse.
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Not slacking multitasking
That sounds like me when the vet said last week so what does he do then...
I just say err everything? Then I feel I should have clarified the within moderation bit in case he thinks I rag my 23 year old round doing high speed hunting and jumping every week. Considering his age we mostly do lots of long hacking, he schools once a week, jumps occasionally and hunts once every couple of weeks in winter. He just got a negative cushings test and a hock injection so I am going to carry on pretending he is at least 5 years younger 
. We also got a lorry so ... well lets see what we can find to do. We are going on holiday on Friday for the week together
this is him last summer OP
I just say err everything? Then I feel I should have clarified the within moderation bit in case he thinks I rag my 23 year old round doing high speed hunting and jumping every week
. Considering his age we mostly do lots of long hacking, he schools once a week, jumps occasionally and hunts once every couple of weeks in winter. He just got a negative cushings test and a hock injection so I am going to carry on pretending he is at least 5 years younger . We also got a lorry so ... well lets see what we can find to do. We are going on holiday on Friday for the week together this is him last summer OP
Red-1
I used to be decisive, now I'm not so sure...
Harry Hoover...
Edward...
Both working horses, who can go out on the streets for 4 plus hours a day, and think nothing of it. They could also do an hour on the school working hard. Neither was much of a jumper though!
Edward...
Both working horses, who can go out on the streets for 4 plus hours a day, and think nothing of it. They could also do an hour on the school working hard. Neither was much of a jumper though!
11bluewolf
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:thumbup:
Farcical1
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Right, I'm definitely getting a cob next time round. I want something sensible but fun and that should fit the bill!
pansymouse
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Lovely to see correct weight cobs doing a job - far too many obese underemployed ones about.
MS123
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I've never been a cob fan but seeing these beautiful cobs has completely changed my mind!!
LeannePip - Are you selling by any chance?? hehe!
LeannePip - Are you selling by any chance?? hehe!
Tangaroo
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OK, so I'm horse hunting at the moment and really want to know where you find all your cobs? Ive been looking for an Irish draught but I'm totally open to the idea of a cob, just can't find either!
LHIS
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I love this thread 
I have a fit cob but no photos that show this off, mostly of us just standing still
I have a fit cob but no photos that show this off, mostly of us just standing still 
Tiddlypom
Carries on creakily
Sadly long gone, but here's my unregistered Section D. Thoroughly good egg, RC all rounder, and Medium level dressage horse. I may possibly have mentioned previously on HHO that we came a close second to Stephen Clarke on our BD Elementary debut (all open classes in those days).
Looking very pleased with himself after winning a RC ODE.
Setting off on a fun ride
Even fit cobs need to eat!
And this time with a friend up, and about to set off on a fun ride with his bessie mate, a HOYS LW show cob finalist.
on HHO that we came a close second to Stephen Clarke on our BD Elementary debut (all open classes in those days).
Looking very pleased with himself after winning a RC ODE.
Setting off on a fun ride
Even fit cobs need to eat!
And this time with a friend up, and about to set off on a fun ride with his bessie mate, a HOYS LW show cob finalist.
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Casey76
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This was the first time my cob had ever been to a proper cross country course, and he didn't look at anything
Considering he hadn't done any jumping before I bought him age 11... he found that he really loved it
Considering he hadn't done any jumping before I bought him age 11... he found that he really loved it
PaulnasherryRocky
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We keep fit by doing long hacks (not long plods- we hack alone so go whatever speed I fancy!)- I don't think it's worth tacking up if you're not going to be in the saddle for at least an hour. We enjoy hunter trials when they're on, just unfortunately there aren't that many in my area unless you want to be jumping 1m+ (Which I'm sure Rocky would, but I don't fancy it!)
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Toffee_monster
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My boy,
Ridden 5 times a week, variety of exercised, on decent grass and not a particularly good doer
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FfionWinnie
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Ireland. I knew I wanted a sports cob and as soon as I saw a video of her I knew she was the one for me. I think if I were looking again I would combine it with a holiday over there.
Love all the pics, great thread op
vam
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She came from Ireland. No idea where from, she was part of a job lot that got delivered to the riding school one day. Her, a NF type (that dropped a foal a few months later) and a big, nasty black cob. She was best of a job lot, bearly back and ended up in the riding school. Had a lot of far to heavy riders on her (she a cob, she can take 20st on a fast 2 hour hack apparently, I kid you not) and then developed a habit of bucking people off, although never me. The riding school knew that had me over a barrel as I loved her (as only a 14 yo does) and my parents bought her for 2k which was a fair bit of money for a dodgy cob.
Never looked back once she was out of the riding school. If I wanted the like again I would be straight over to Ireland although I'm not sure they are as easy to find now even over there.
Never looked back once she was out of the riding school. If I wanted the like again I would be straight over to Ireland although I'm not sure they are as easy to find now even over there.