I have come to the conclusion im weird…

[blitznbobs]

I love love love dressage - i have my heart set on breeding / developing top notch dressage (wb) horses with a super temperament and therapy training for the para and nervous rider market… but i also love a cob — clipped out or traditional love em all… people keep telling me this is a huge mismatch i have these beautiful well bred dressage mares clopping around next to a small herd of cobs…

however today i am owning it . I think cobs are just as beautiful and there is no reason i cant love both… if that makes me weird then I am very very weird.

 

[View]

No, not weird at all.

I appreciate the beauty in any equine as long as it is a nice person to be around. Donkeys, mules, natives, cobs, hunters, sports horses, drafts, TBs and everything else I’ve omitted by accident - it’s their personality that attracts me, not their looks.

 

[Caol Ila]

I think it's pretty normal.

 

[Cortez]

Well I used to breed, train and compete very fancy-wancy WB's and also love a good cob, so you're not alone, or weird. Probably.

 

[Barton Bounty]

Nah your not weird!
Im not a hairy cobby type person but can appreciate one, my friends have some lovely cobs.
I do love most types to be fair

 

[PapaverFollis]

A good cob is a thing of beauty as well as utility and far more rideable for us mere mortals with normally flexible spines than big moving carriage horses... sorry warmbloods ?

 

[Barton Bounty]

A good cob is a thing of beauty as well as utility and far more rideable for us mere mortals with normally flexible spines than big moving carriage horses... sorry warmbloods ?

Sure is, my friend has a big lion heart cob but had nothing but trouble ? first laminitis then a tooth and now lymphangitis ?
I dont think I could cope well with all the feathers and hair ?

 

[cauda equina]

Yeah but you should can clip all that off

 

[Barton Bounty]

??? ill try and see if i have a pic of him, hes stunning ? hes had to have it all clipped off now because of the lymphangitis

 

[Barton Bounty]

Mr G

 

[shortstuff99]

I am also weird, I only ride and own cobs and Iberians ?

 

[nagblagger]

I'm weird, i like the ugly and neglected ones...

 

[wills_91]

Could be me, I am now owned only by 2 mini shetlands...

 

[SEL]

Spent my life riding warmbloods now have a field of cobs with a Draft in the mix too - just because sometimes you need a cob on steroids ?

Having had to clip the legs off one for the vet earlier in the year I'm now a big fan of clipped out cobs!

 

[atropa]

I have two sport horses and a scruffy native, never thought anything of it until a visiting vet said she was surprised at the combination of breeds I owned.

 

[DabDab]

Ha, funny you should start this thread because I was actually thinking the other day how common it is now to see dressage people running a warmblood alongside a trad cob. Despite the two types being apparently very different there must be some kind of venn diagram out there where the they have a significant overlap ?.

Personally I hugely admire good examples of both types, just so long as somebody else is riding them. (But I am a fully signed up member of the heathen class that believes the thoroughbred is a suitable mount for every equestrian discipline)

 

[blitznbobs]

Ha, funny you should start this thread because I was actually thinking the other day how common it is now to see dressage people running a warmblood alongside a trad cob. Despite the two types being apparently very different there must be some kind of venn diagram out there where the they have a significant overlap ?.

Personally I hugely admire good examples of both types, just so long as somebody else is riding them. (But I am a fully signed up member of the heathen class that believes the thoroughbred is a suitable mount for every equestrian discipline)

Wash your mouth out with soap?

 

[Red-1]

Rigsby hooked me onto cobs. Before that, I had fancy pants horses.

Even my new one is a proper old fashioned Ish, no TB or warmblood in him.

Two superb horses in their own right.

 

[Auslander]

The OH of a member of this forum once innocently referred to Alf as a vanner (he was in full winter woolies that day) I was somewhat affronted at the time, but I have since learned that there is beauty in all equine beings...

And he did look like a vanner

 

[honetpot]

If the hat fits and does the job you wear it. We have had just about everything, but I will admit going shopping with our tack, so at least if it fit it would reduce the cost of the punt. I always buy for temperament, will it do a job, so what it looks like/breed comes third, after price.

 

[Keith_Beef]

I love love love dressage - i have my heart set on breeding / developing top notch dressage (wb) horses with a super temperament and therapy training for the para and nervous rider market… but i also love a cob — clipped out or traditional love em all… people keep telling me this is a huge mismatch i have these beautiful well bred dressage mares clopping around next to a small herd of cobs…

however today i am owning it . I think cobs are just as beautiful and there is no reason i cant love both… if that makes me weird then I am very very weird.

Whatever floats your goat, eh?

Oh, and apparently we don't say "weird" these days; we say "freaky".

 

[hock]

Well you’ve got company because I breed shire and Percheron x warmbloods for dressage. They are magnificent, light athletic and rideable. In between I bring on nice cobs for dressage too.

 

[hock]

Wash your mouth out with soap?

Ha, funny you should start this thread because I was actually thinking the other day how common it is now to see dressage people running a warmblood alongside a trad cob. Despite the two types being apparently very different there must be some kind of venn diagram out there where the they have a significant overlap ?.

Personally I hugely admire good examples of both types, just so long as somebody else is riding them. (But I am a fully signed up member of the heathen class that believes the thoroughbred is a suitable mount for every equestrian discipline)

I was recently approached by a dressage name about one of my cobs, I was very confused. They just wanted to have something easy to potter about on and ride about the farm without the drama. I’d already taken the deposit for him otherwise it would have been a great claim to fame!

 

[Roxylola]

there must be some kind of venn diagram out there where the they have a significant overlap

Rhythm, cobs often have such fab rhythmic paces. That's my overlap at least, I'm a sucker for good rhythm

 

[Caol Ila]

I can't figure out who is sharper or hotter - my Iberian or Highland. Depends on the day. Neither fits their breed stereotypes.

 

[Barton Bounty]

Well you’ve got company because I breed shire and Percheron x warmbloods for dressage. They are magnificent, light athletic and rideable. In between I bring on nice cobs for dressage too.

Percheron x warmbloods! Please please can I see?
At my last yard they had 8 percherons but all mahoosive. Beautiful but enormous. I think a x would be perfect ?

 

[Madali]

I have two Welsh cobs and a fancy warmblood. All live together and it was the best thing ever for the warmblood as it turned her from a neurotic worrywart to a normal horse.
in her previous home she wouldn’t stay out for more than an hour
lives out 24/7 now ?
watching them all together is a complete joy

 

[Highmileagecob]

Did anyone see the Horse & Country TV series about Carl Hester? He was explaining that he keeps a traditional cob turned out with his horses 'to keep them calm.' He then harnessed the cob to the trap to go shopping, and the cob promptly spooked and took the gatepost down. Cobs have a great sense of humour don't they?

 

[hock]

Percheron x warmbloods! Please please can I see?
At my last yard they had 8 percherons but all mahoosive. Beautiful but enormous. I think a x would be perfect ?

 

[blitznbobs]

Gorgeous xx