I have come to the conclusion im weird…

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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.
 
PapaverFollis said:
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 ?
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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 ?
 
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.
 
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)
 
DabDab said:
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)
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Wash your mouth out with soap?
 
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.
 
blitznbobs said:
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.
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Whatever floats your goat, eh?

Oh, and apparently we don't say "weird" these days; we say "freaky".
 
blitznbobs said:
Wash your mouth out with soap?
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DabDab said:
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)
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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!
 
hock said:
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.
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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 ?
 
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
 
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?
 
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