Never under estimate the intelligence of the common cob...

Another one although not my horse or a cob but big 17.3 x selle francais coloured chap big bolshy opinionated but lovely mover had him in to school and start his jumping education popped him over a few x poles etc doing really well lovely tuck. Put the straight bar up and popped him over twice only second time got distracted probably a butterfly or something he was that dopey, and tapped the pole with his front leg not enough to knock it off. Cue him landing other side of jump hopping on three legs front leg in the air like he'd been shot. I jump off and he's holding it up nudging it with his nose, so a whip boot off look at it no heat no cuts give it a rub and put it down. I look at my partner as if to say what did he do and then turn around as said horse stamps his foot twice on the ground and then proceeds to walk off as if to say "well let's get on with it then!" He just wanted it running better. Was completely fine but a 17.3hh lump didn't like tsppng a pole.needless to say he made an ace jumper but so funny.
 
Magicmillbrook said:
What colour is she? We were torn between 'The Iron Lady' and 'The Iron Maiden'. She was a stonking great big grey cob with strong opinions.
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Multi coloured with an odd tail that someone told me was a blue blagdon?
she is clipped out her, but her body is sort of liver chestnut with some roaning. The second picture was taken last year and she is a lot fitter now. I need to hog her to show her but she is almost too feminine to hog.


 
I miss my previous cob. I had to catch his mate who was dangerously afraid of their third field mate, so super cob drove the bully away and kept him away from us while I took the scared one out of the field. There are too many examples of his intelligence to remember, but it included bucking his way down the long side of an arena at a show when I got my double reins mixed up :o and picking up a jump pole we had just dismantled and putting it back up before I could jump off to do it! :D
 
LittleBlackMule said:
While I would in no way dispute a cob's intelligence (I have one), I would argue it's not just cobs though!

My old Standardbred was prone to self mutilation on a regular basis, and always pointed out each new bit of damage, holding up the affected body part to be dressed with germoline.

One day he was very depressed and kept pushing his head into me, something he didn't normally do, and to me it was obvious where he was hurting. I called the vet out who asked me what the symptoms were, and when I told him my horse had a really bad headache, he asked how I knew. "Because the horse told me.." got me put on the 'barking mad' list.
However, a sinus infection was diagnosed, and the vet had to agree that he would indeed have had a headache.
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:D:D Loved reading this
 
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