Fat Show Cob

I don't think he look obese, but he's by no means slim...

I always think of Henry (gorgeous big coloured on here) who looked like a hairy heavy weight cob in the pics i've seen from when his current owner just got him. When he was hunting etc though, he was so trim. You can still tell he is a cob- he's just really fit and no excess fat on him, but still not skinny- just pure muscle and fitness.

So i still think most cobs are overweight. But it doesn't bother me unless they are obese. Which a lot still are.
 
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H+H hate showing anyway. I have no doubt that they think it is simply an annoying extra where the horses are all overweight, mistreated and it's boring. The Editor seems to like having a dig at it, most shows get no coverage and if the Editor had her way, the entire thing would be devoted to dressage, eventing and showjumping anyway. So they probably chose an unflattering photo just to p*ss off the showing people even more.
Doesn't matter if that one photo was unflattering or not to me though - he is a beautiful horse, a perfect example of his type and very well ridden and produced. And certainly not obese.

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I completely accept your point of view and description of the horse. I'm not a showing afficienado (sp) and this is the first photo of the horse I've seen and I agree he is beautiful...... I'm only speaking as I find
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H+H hate showing anyway. I have no doubt that they think it is simply an annoying extra where the horses are all overweight, mistreated and it's boring. The Editor seems to like having a dig at it, most shows get no coverage and if the Editor had her way, the entire thing would be devoted to dressage, eventing and showjumping anyway. So they probably chose an unflattering photo just to p*ss off the showing people even more.
Doesn't matter if that one photo was unflattering or not to me though - he is a beautiful horse, a perfect example of his type and very well ridden and produced. And certainly not obese.

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I completely accept your point of view and description of the horse. I'm not a showing afficienado (sp) and this is the first photo of the horse I've seen and I agree he is beautiful...... I'm only speaking as I find
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No no that's fine - you are more than entitled to say whatever you think!
 
Its unfortunate that look has become the norm in showing. Yes there may be muscle underneath but the horse is still overweight for hard work. And of course that type of fat over muscle covers a multitude of sins. You also have to say that horse in the photo has got a remarkably tiny head for a cob compared to its massive body.

I too have been told my mare could do with more condition on her for working hunter but she can't clear the jumps when I let her get fatter - and even with that amount of condition most BSJA people would say she is too fat. She is 1/4 cob and I can see the slight cob shape in her and I know perfectly well if I let her get fatter but kept her muscled she would do better in showing - but she wouldn't be properly fit and though she would do the work, the strain on her would be much more. Also looking at the horse in the photograph's stomach - I just have this mental image of it puffing out hunting and then getting wedged on top of a big hedge...

But then my personal hate in showing is those awful greasy-faced over-dished poor excuses for Arabs.
 
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Head like a lady, backside like a cook. Hence why he has won virtually every class this year! He is a very quality horse - many heavyweights are very common and have enormous heads - perhaps this is what you have seen?

To everyone else - yes - not the most flattering photograph (I have some of me which I KNOW show me far fatter than I am!)

Eric (Keystone Cob) is a horse that likes to be occupied and is probably one of the fittest horses on the yard. He motors round Windsor Park at a rate that most "average" horses would find difficult to maintain.

For those who have said that our horses are generally not fat - many thanks. We pride ourselves on our horses continuing to work after their showing careers well into their teens (as I have said before, the chestnut cob in my sig represented GB in para dressage last year when he was 22 years old after a long showing career including workers).

Our horses don't puff!

legal dancer - is that the name of the horse you bought? If so, he was a lovely little horse - amazing jumper and a smidgeon too big for what we wanted. We spent some time with Gill Watson teaching us both how to jump and she said he would make a far better eventer so off he went! (and there my eventing career ended ...)

Please feel free to come along and meet Eric in the flesh next season - he loves the attention and you can see for yourselves how some photos do not represent the whole truth.
 
I don't think that the conformation judge would of put up fat or unfit cobs that huffed and puffed their way round the ring.
As I get reminded a picture does not always show what the eye sees.
 
I'd have said that cob wasn't fat, just very shiny... which highlights all his curvy bits!

Considering that the Cob showing world has been dominated by a selection of morbidly obese greys, who's dapples hide their fat quite nicely until they start to move, The Keystone Cob is a welcome change and a deserving winner.

And I'm not just saying that. I'm a catty Cob Producer just like the rest of them!!!

Congrats, FMM, so nice to see someone else dominating a sphere that was ruled by one producer, for so long.
 
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