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What do you all do with your cobs (traditional and show) competition wise and what level are you all at? :)
I've got a traditional cob and we do intro and prelim level dressage at the moment although trying our first novice next month! We're currently unaffiliated although would love to affiliate!
We also do local level showing and trying some county shows next year :p
Will try attach some photos in the comments, would love to see what your all doing with your cobs in any disapline as love seeing them out and about!
Anybody compete any traditionals up to elementary? That's where I would really like to get up to one day :)
 
Mostly show jumping. Our best day so far is winning a BS 90cm. She's only 14.2. She can jump the moon, love her to bits. We are working on basic lateral work, walk/halt to canter, turn on the forehand at the moment and I have broken the news to her that we will be doing dressage this winter.

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I also have a Welsh cob who is at the very start of her proper ridden career after a lot of bad handling. She is very athletic, loves to jump and is very bold so I'm interested to see what she might do too.
 
I've just bought one to bring on, a heavyweight but with the most surprisingly floaty paces! I'll be following this thread with interest. She's intended as a family horse but I think she's got the presence and movement to do more (and I love dressage!).
 
My old mare was a real classic HOYS standard LW show cob. She could hunt over the biggest country all day, show jumped to newcomers evented to pre-novice (but could XC at Novice) and went to 5 national finals and completed 5 long format 3DE always made the time which is why I chuckle when people always think cobs can't make the time. She is the horse that's in my siggy.
 
I have a traditional. Mine is competing BD elementary, however his idiot rider (me :-O ) keeps going wrong in the tests at the moment, so he's been let down by me and my competition nerves for the past few months! He needs a couple of points for the BD winter regionals at elementary, which we were hoping to gain yesterday. Unfortunately the venue misplaced my sheet before adding it up (the sort of thing that would only happen to me!) so we're still missing those last couple of points. We also do dressage to music.

We were going to have a go at a medium after Christmas, or as soon as we can easily do the canter half-pass as that's a bit of a work in progress still.
 
comet! said:
I have a traditional. Mine is competing BD elementary, however his idiot rider (me :-O ) keeps going wrong in the tests at the moment, so he's been let down by me and my competition nerves for the past few months! He needs a couple of points for the BD winter regionals at elementary, which we were hoping to gain yesterday. Unfortunately the venue misplaced my sheet before adding it up (the sort of thing that would only happen to me!) so we're still missing those last couple of points. We also do dressage to music.

We were going to have a go at a medium after Christmas, or as soon as we can easily do the canter half-pass as that's a bit of a work in progress still.
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Ooo i would love to get up to elementary one day! Maybe end of next year haha would love to affilate too! Do you see many other cobs about? Yours sounds super!!!
 
Yes, he was a great cob, performed until his twenties (he was 21 in that pic) until he had to be put down with arthritis. Cobs are super dudes!
 
Sophiecollins11 said:
Ooo i would love to get up to elementary one day! Maybe end of next year haha would love to affilate too! Do you see many other cobs about? Yours sounds super!!!
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Thank you! I just need to get my act together and stop making mistakes and letting him down - hopefully I'll start that when I'm out tomorrow!

There is also one near me that is competing advanced medium - I keep meaning to try to stay and watch his tests, but whenever he's been at the same show as me it's always been a wet day or I've been in a rush to get back.

Unfortunately I rarely see any other cobs out and about :-(
 
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Here's me on my late HW cob, an ex Riding School unregistered section D.

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We both started as clueless dressage newcomers/numpties. Within three years, we ran Stephen Clarke (former international dressage rider, and now FEI Dressage Judge General), a close second in our first affiliated Elementary under a List 1 judge. (All open classes in those days).

We went on to get to Medium, but he was in his mid teens by then so had to retire due to arthritis, having had a hard early life.

BTW, I really, really, don't do jumping, this pic shows him shepherding me round a RC clinic day!

Cobs most definitely can :).
 
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I have a coloured cob. Not a fancy traditional, just a heinz 57 cob type. We are at Novice BD and elementary unaffiliated. We did national finals at Trailblazers in Novice and Elementary this year, Hickstead Masters, Regionals, Area Festivals etc. He's a good little horse.

We've also dabbled in unaffiliated eventing and show jumping, but it's not his forte. He tries hard but he is not a complete natural. Height isn't an issue but the width of spreads is.



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I've got a HW traditional. I bought him to drive when I wasn't sure if I'd walk or ride again. I specifically bought him because he has a lovely small head, good conformation and nice straight movement. It turns out I can walk and ride, and I also dont really like driving so now hes my riding horse.

My instructor LOVES him and raves about the horse hes going to be. Hes only 5yr old and very green, but its all there, it will just take longer to bring it out than it would with a warmblood type. I'm pretty confident given time he will do a cracking elementary test at least and my instructor is already booking dates in the diary to show him next year :) He also has a big jump, although its not something I have or will pursue, but if I was that way inclined he would be fab!

A good cob is never going to get to the Olympics, but they can make cracking RC allrounders without all the hassle of managing a blood horse :)
 
I have a 15hh coloured show cob who I've owned since August and she is simply amazing. A few years back I had a rotational fall and broke my pelvis so need something relatively safe and sane and she is that down to the ground. She hadn't done much schooling when I first got her and was fat and very unfit so it was a hard month or two to get the weight off and fitness up which we achieved through plenty of hacking (I live in a nice hilly area of Surrey so this was luckily quite easy) which she loves and some lessons with a fantastic instructor. We've done 2 Intro level Dressage tests, coming 5th with 65.87% in one and 2nd with 68.54% in our last one - not bad for a horse who couldn't do a 20m circle when I brought her! She has the most fantastic, genuine, willing temperament and is the sweetest horse in all aspects. I have never, ever met a horse that tries as hard as she does! She's very laid back (Lazy!) at times and can take a while to wake her up but she has a lot of potential and I'm hoping to register her for BD and get cracking with some Prelims in 2016. The end goal is to show her under saddle and do some Elementary Dressage which I think is do-able for her. My main love is hacking so they'll be plenty of sponsored and fun rides along the line too! As you can probably guess, I'm not a jumper anymore but that won't bother us! :) I truly feel like the luckiest girl alive to own Peggy, it sounds silly but being with her makes me feel all warm inside and she will truly have a home for life with my family and me. A cob was not what I was looking for when I was looking to buy but I would never have anything but now! Wish I could find how you post photos so might pop back later to see if I can figure it out!
 
This year , on my hw, we've done XC for the first time ,just hired the course. Had the best day , he loved it and I couldn't stop smiling. We've done a couple of endurance rides, with my yo's expert Arab and friends ISH :) we've done a hunt fun ride, brilliant fun. We've also started novice dressage and have joined a local winter dressage series, got a first , but then I was the only one in the para section . Had him since last May but wasn't allowed to ride him until November , after a big back op. This year has been about a bit of everything , getting him out there, having fun together . My cow cob is my dream pie . You are in for some fun :)
 
Never underestimate cobs haha. They are awesome horses i know one that is slightly underestimated by his owner but recently they jumped over a straw bale at a gallop. Like a huge round straw bale. And he is only 15hh maybe a little smaller but not sure. He is a middleweight almost heavyweight cob too so not a slim build. So don't think they are restricted by height or width ha ha.
 
My mare was an Irish bog cob, with a back a bit long, legs a bit short but the most amazing attitude, character and heart. She was in the riding school as a 4 yo, ragged round by overweight riders, tripped over trot poles and had a buck that few could sit to. When I bought her we fumbled round without a clue with no help but due to her test of character, love of jumping and my grim determination we started show jumping. We were rarely unplaced and jumped up to 1.05/1.10m classes affiliated in the end. She would have gone a lot further if I knew what I was doing, had a regular instructor but at 14.3hh she was always going to struggle a bit with striding in the horse classes, she would have made the most awesome junior pony thou.
She could turn her hoof to anything, xc wasn’t our thing thou. I wasn’t keen and she didn’t like water, that said she would go out and jump round like a pro. I used to lend her out to a couple of friends for lesson with their dressage instructors when their horses were out of action, they all loved riding her as she picked up things so quickly and was completely in tune with leg and seat aid. I had a people say she could go at least elementary, I didn’t enjoy dressage so all our tests where rubbish but with someone who enjoyed it she would have shined.
Most of all she was just the loveliest of horses, not a bad bone in her body. She would look after the most nervous of riders but step up and challenge those who thought they could. Always looked like an easy ride but was sharp, quick thinking and loved to learn. Everyone that dealt with her loved her, she was a saint for the farrier, vet etc, would load herself (up any ramp available to be fair!) hack out in the heaviest of traffic, I could leave her standing in the yard and she wouldn’t move unless I told her to.
I had her 15 years, knew her inside out and had the most amazing time together. I don’t think I’ll ever find another like her I have to admit.

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I have a traditional that I show. We also do bits of dressage, not a lot of jumping even though she's quite good (I worry about her joints, being so heavily built). She's a real speed merchant, loves a good gallop in the ring! I've recently got on the panel as a judge for the TGCA too; I love my hairy cobs!
We also have a Traditional X Fell pony that I've recently backed, but she is going to be more of a native type than a traditional. She won the Great Yorkshire Show this year as a 3 year old.
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