AdorableAlice
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A vanner type for me, but very useful and a good example of how to turn one into a nice horse if you can spot one in the rough. I bet you are chuffed !
OK HHO people .... define
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A vanner type for me, but very useful and a good example of how to turn one into a nice horse if you can spot one in the rough. I bet you are chuffed !
FfionWinnie
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He's a modern what *nearly* everyone thinks is a cob, cob, CT!
Count Oggy
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I call mine a cob as it's a useful shorthand, but truthfully I wouldn't know what to class him as. He stands around 15.2 but I think he lacks bone and his head is too common. He has a cob size bridle with a full noseband and a 6" bit.
Last picture is him a bit fitter.
Last picture is him a bit fitter.
Mrs B
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Just to say I'm really enjoying seeing all your equicobponies (whatever they are) and listening to why they are or aren't ... 
CinnamonChristmasCookie
Fais pas chier!
Ha, the guy said he had a coloured, I didn't like the chestnut he showed me first, Beau wouldn't be caught, saw him, loved him! He's lovely when cleaned up, needs sedating for the legs, sadly.
Everyone thinks he's a cob! He has that big blunt head, huge feet and is extremely whizzy! His mane is a sad disappointment, it's thin and rubbish, so I just hog :tongue3: I'd love to know his breeding, but he just has a white Irish Horse Board passport.
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CinnamonChristmasCookie
Fais pas chier!
I call mine a cob as it's a useful shorthand, but truthfully I wouldn't know what to class him as. He stands around 15.2 but I think he lacks bone and his head is too common. He has a cob size bridle with a full noseband and a 6" bit.
He's an awful lot like my friend's 'cob' who is a cob X Friesian, same head and colour patches. Proper useful little man he is.
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AdorableAlice
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I can tell you his breeding - he is a lovely mix of Dandy Brush, crossed with a bit of Bog Brush, with a splash of Trotter, possibly a touch of Bog Trotter crossed with Curry Comb. This wonderful mix almost always produces a breed called Honest Useful Horse.
This breed often has a wicked sense of humour and many talents, they return exceptional MPG and can work out any puzzle at the speed of light. Their navigational skills are second to none they will always know the route to the kitchen. Their intelligence is legendary, this breed will navigate the Vicarage V with ease, just a quick shifty underneath and trot along the ditch, easy. The cost of this breed is, a touch of luck mixed with a lot of patience in the early years and the cost of a bag of pony cubes which will need to be fed at a rate of 3 cubes per day.
NZJenny
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In NZ a cob used to be a fat park hack!
However, I always thought Welsh Cob was a breed. They were smallish with Necks and a very solid leg at each corner.
The ones I am seeing in most of the photos here are what we call Gypsy Cobs in NZ. Coloured, hairy and in NZ stupidly expensive.
However, I always thought Welsh Cob was a breed. They were smallish with Necks and a very solid leg at each corner.
The ones I am seeing in most of the photos here are what we call Gypsy Cobs in NZ. Coloured, hairy and in NZ stupidly expensive.
FfionWinnie
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Welsh cobs aka Welsh Section D's are a breed. I have at least one of them too.
_HP_
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I don't know any official definitions but for me, a cob is usually short, compact and has lots of feather in its natural state. He'll have a broad head and big round hooves.