Cobs! Where did you get yours from??

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Hi all,

am currently in that saving stage and have decided that I will probably search for a chunky monkey ; o )

Want a nice natured cob, not bothered about age, experience etc just as long as it has a nice temp. and will look after me and will hack sensibly.

So question is - where did you look for yours?? Any pictures you have of course would be gratefully recieved!
 
Found mine in a field of three neglected ponies by a disused railway track....spent ages tracking down the owner in order to buy him.And told him to get the others sorted *sigh* Not much help, sorry :D

Think cobs come up on horsemart a lot ?

Good luck - coblets are the best ! sm x
 
A train carriage in Ireland....next to a sugar beet factory.....! Sorry, also not much help, but you do find horses in the most peculiar of places!
 
I think my chap was on Horse Deals? Had him 5 years this summer, been through a lot of ups and downs but he is a horse of a lifetime, I thought I would have to sell him this summer due to personal circumstances but have done everything in my power to keep him I would be devastated to let him go, the old saying one in a million is so true! He is from Ireland, where I don't know and was brought over by Lynn Russell, she sold him to his first owner and I bought him as a 4 year old from her in Oxfordshire, he was a private sale.

When I was thinking of selling him I was looking at prices to get an idea of his worth, it seems that really good ones that have done a lot go for a lot of money, and/or don't come up often! choose carefully though as they are not all plods as my boy has proved many a time!!! He's a fab alrounder does everything and is always placed at shows! and has a personality as big as himself!

Good luck!!!!!!!!!
 
Got mine from Leamington, they'd only had him four months after buying him from an old lady that couldn't handle him - he can be bargey.

I got him as a happy hacker to teach me to ride but he is querky. In the winter when he is feeling good, his canter tends to be flat-out gallop and for a short arse he can half shift!! I was too chicken to ride in the winter and got my friend to ride him luckily, she was really shocked at how quick he can move considering he's a h/w.

But he's lovely, he has a wonderful personality and I know when he's happy, stroppy, sad or frustrated with me - mostly frustrated with me for not riding him :)

Happy searching, there's a lovely piebald on H&H at the moment:
http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/marketplace/classified/4-details-horses-for-sale_228717.htm
Advert says he's a bit nervy though but a gorgeous boy.
 
Mine came from Smiths Farm Horses. Sold as bombproof, she isn't BUT having said that 5 years on I still have her and cannot imagine my life without her, she's a total poppet. Every bone in her body is honest. Can hack out with company like a dream, we're just starting to build up our solo hacks. We'll get there, eventually :D Good luck in your search.
 
Zak - from a dealer who rescued him from a field somewhere
Midi - From a barmy old woman who kept her without water and fed her lettuce (true stories!)
Dorey - from a dealer near gatwick, who now specialises in connies and jumpers
Mushi - from a very odd dealer who gave us the wrong passport and wanted our address 6 months later to send a christmas card...
Emma - Beeston

You either want to go through word of mouth or go looking in the oddest places!!

But - stay AWAY from the 'safe cobs' and horsemart lot, they're even dodgier dealers than the one we got Mushi from!!!
 
This is Harvey, who I got from Emma Hinkley at Clip Clop Traders - highly recommended!

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I bought mine from a riding school - who sell youngstock as a side like. He was only broken a few months & very hairy and scruffy. Some times a little vision is needed lol.
 
I got mine from Ireland, unbroken, basically handled as a 4 year old, oh yes i brought him from a video and he was shipped over!!!! it was from The irish horses website.

He is now fabulous, I went through the normal blood sweat and tears breaking and riding away, but to hack he has been a saint from the day he was broken. It has taken him 3 years to mature now he is a true HW cob and looks amazing but then im very biased!!!
 
This is Dolly. I shared her for 2 years before buying her 7 years ago.
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This is Mac. He sort of found me. People that owned him were scared of him and didn't really do much with him so I persuaded them to let me have him. He's a Suffolk cross, so not technically a cob, but is a good solid chunky monkey.
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Horse elite 5 years ago he a star, and the field next door he was a hairy monkey she was frightened of him gave him to me clipped hogged looks a 5* horse now and is a very happy hunter and good as gold .
 
we have 3 cobs, all originally from ireland, but ted we bought from ashford horse sales, and same with tyler, but we know tyler came from the dealer down the road from us from little london horses, and so did jazz, my cob mare who i bought 10 years ago

this is ted

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tyler

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jazz she is welsh d x cob

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I found my gelding on Coloured Contacts nearly 7 years ago now.
My mare I found in the local paper 5 years ago.
 
I answered an advert from a trekking centre advertising for "winter loan homes" for their horses and His Nibs duly arrived.

To cut a (very) long story short, I ended up doing the proverbial falling in love (soppy) bit and bought the hairy monster. Its a good way to get a horse really coz you've got loads of time to see what he/she's like and then if you like what you've got they may rise to the bait if you make a sensible offer, especially in the current climate with a lot of riding schools/trekking centres having to downsize, but make sure they don't fob you off with their undesirables tho'!
 
For good show cob types: www.theirishhorse.com are v good. or Lynn Russell has some lovely ones too!!

horsequest has a page dedicated to cobs and traditionals etc.

Lots of private sales accessible through the websites like horse and hound, horsequest, horsedeals, horsemart etc etc

Lots of happy looking time!!! :)

where are you based? as I know of a lovely little lady looking for a home near nottingham but she needs a bit of work as was left out in a field for 3 years to just get fat and be a field ornament, then owner went o don't want her now!! she is a pet, just needs basics putting back in!
 
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