Meowy Catkin
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Isn't that quite literally a whole other thread
I think that we need Shils' expertise on these issues - she is the cob expert after all.
Rant - why do people look down on you if you own a cob?
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I think that we need Shils' expertise on these issues - she is the cob expert after all.
Holly Hocks
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Mudmonkey - don't let it worry you - you know me - love my TBs, but I've gone the other way getting a youngster who is a NF x cob (and she is really turning into a cob now she's getting older as well!) who is only now touching 14hh after all the others have been over 16hh - and I am so looking forward to breaking her in next year and being closer to the ground!
Nowt wrong with a good solid cob! If you've enjoyed B so much, why change what's worked so well for you? He's been a star!
Nowt wrong with a good solid cob! If you've enjoyed B so much, why change what's worked so well for you? He's been a star!
JFTDWS
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No way, ploddy cob riders are much worse than pony squishers - at least my pony has a brain and knows how to use it
Mildred
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it may well cover the beard but what the heck shall I do with my potentially gargantuan rump? I thought that a hefty carthorse bottom may take the attention from my own ample 4rse acreage...
Buds_mum
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No way, ploddy cob riders are much worse than pony squishers - at least my pony has a brain and knows how to use it
Well as a novice of course its important your mount can quide itself, maybe one day you'll be competant enough to move off ponies
And PLODDY!! I have you know NOTHING moves faster than Buddy to his tea.... of course that may be because he's a fat greedy cob
guido16
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You haven't thought this through have you.
Think about it, when you ride your TB, lady arse and all, everyone will be so busy admiring your TB that they won't notice your mid life spread.
BUT, if you ride a plough cow, people will be desperate to look somewhere else and your mr blobby bum will catch their attention!!
They might even look at your snood and see some stray whiskers jagging through it!
Doesn't bare thinking about does it?
With a wide load and bearded lady look, you NEED a TB.
JFTDWS
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Well as a novice of course its important your mount can quide itself, maybe one day you'll be competant enough to move off ponies
And PLODDY!! I have you know NOTHING moves faster than Buddy to his tea.... of course that may be because he's a fat greedy cob
Ha, given his way Fergs would guide me into a low hanging branch to knock me off! Cobs are for novices, ponies are for folk with a death wish
Mildred
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the thing is, (assuming a TB doesn't crumple under my vast load) I dont think I could manage one out in public with their racy ways. Where would I pile my shopping for a start? It'd simply slide off a TB's angular little bottom instead of settling snugly into my cob's butt gutter.
Buds_mum
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Ha, given his way Fergs would guide me into a low hanging branch to knock me off! Cobs are for novices, ponies are for folk with a death wish
Well at least you have skin on your knees, can't go anywhere narrow now with Buds he doesn't actually fit! We have an alley way on one of our hacks and his bum only just gets through, let alone me! He's actually lost weight yet is still filling out in other ways!
I suppose ponies are fun even if you will never be able to compete against proper horses
guido16
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But by the time you got home, the plough cow would have eaten all your shopping!
I see why you might worry about your ten ton backside crumpling a TB but to be honest, it's better than risking blisters on your bum when it hangs down the side of your short arsed plough cow and gives you gravel rash.
JFTDWS
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Well at least you have skin on your knees, can't go anywhere narrow now with Buds he doesn't actually fit! We have an alley way on one of our hacks and his bum only just gets through, let alone me! He's actually lost weight yet is still filling out in other ways!
I suppose ponies are fun even if you will never be able to compete against proper horses
lol he's 14,1 so we can BE and BD against horses
and BS for that matter. Not that any of those are very likely, since he's a bog pony with my old lad, the cob, I have one gateway on a bridleway I always had to go through with my legs over the front of the saddle
most embarassing
Buds_mum
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lol he's 14,1 so we can BE and BD against horses
with my old lad, the cob, I have one gateway on a bridleway I always had to go through with my legs over the front of the saddle
Hehe I love your bog pony
He's beautiful, even for a fat hairy highland! (all highlands are huge and hairy you know, wide as they are tall!) We now avoid said alleyway, its better for all involved to take a wider option!
JFTDWS
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Hehe I love your bog pony
We now avoid said alleyway, its better for all involved to take a wider option!
Aw thanks. As wide as he is tall? Don't be ridiculous
He's WIDER. He's so fat he can barely lift his feet off the ground! Just like Buddy! I think you should contact your local bridleways association / highways agency and complain that the alleyway is discriminatory against cobs
Mildred
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Sigh. Clearly Ill break it to drag a flat-bed cart along for my bum cheeks (and excess shopping).
Cortez
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Well, the best little horse ever was a brick sh**house of a cob, Long Live Dexter (and I've had allsorts, from TB's to PRE's). Cobs rule, OK.
cassie summers
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It's called envy ----------- when you beat them in competition, when you are safe out hunting, when the cob passes the combine harvester without a passing glance, when you can make a bag of pony nuts last 6 months and a bale of hay a week.
Enjoy your horse and don't worry what other people think, life is too short.
I have just bought a maxi cob, hairy, itchy beastie, unschooled, unbalanced, kind as a christian, moves straight and, if you know what you are looking at, very correct. People have laughed, I will laugh when it gets to Hoys in 2013.
a above agree 100% and we are doing dressage to music tomorrow ok so noy olympic standard but who cares
Buds_mum
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Aw thanks. As wide as he is tall? Don't be ridiculous
I think you should contact your local bridleways association / highways agency and complain that the alleyway is discriminatory against cobs
Haaaha so doing this. Fatists
and Buddy is supposed to be hugely overweight HE'S A COB 
meandmyself
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Maybe they just ride tall horses?
SNORKEY
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I love cobs, I've had an Anglo Arab x for 9 yrs who's been a pain in the ass, I love him but I decided I miss cobs so much since loosing mine 7 yrs ago that I brought myself a 2yr old coloured to bring on as my happy hacker. I wanted something sane and safe. Finer horses are pretty but cobs are just as good and they are usually more fun and don't go lame every five mins!
AdorableAlice
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Cassiesummers good luck tomorrow, hope you have room for another trophy on the mantlepiece.
Rowreach - see you at Hoys next year..
The only minus point with cob owning is this mane chopping off business, what on earth do I hold on to when going round corners ? With only 35 years experience it's tricky not having handlebars.
Rowreach - see you at Hoys next year..
The only minus point with cob owning is this mane chopping off business, what on earth do I hold on to when going round corners ? With only 35 years experience it's tricky not having handlebars.
cassie summers
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thank you she only been backed for a year will be our 1st show i was going to hog her ect and do maxi cob next year but think maybe to pretty for a hog and she is to big for traditional cob and anyway she is a shire x tb so is she a cob lol
Hanzybaby01
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My favourites are the heavies, cobs, clydes, shires etc.
The horse I ride now is a welsh cob D and he has manners to die for. Forward going yet responsible and so much fun. We had a good and fast ride out today and he loved it as much as I did.
I don't have a problem with non heavies, they just don't float my boat. But then you wouldn't catch me going round and round in a school as I'm a 100% happy heavy hacker (the horse not me)
The horse I ride now is a welsh cob D and he has manners to die for. Forward going yet responsible and so much fun. We had a good and fast ride out today and he loved it as much as I did.
I don't have a problem with non heavies, they just don't float my boat. But then you wouldn't catch me going round and round in a school as I'm a 100% happy heavy hacker (the horse not me
)melony73
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Just a rant that need to get off my chest.
I own a lovely 15.2 cob who although is a lovely boy is not the most straightforward to ride. He is strong, gets really exciteable and can be a git to ride. Of course i love him to bits
He has been my competition horse over last 3 years and almost always in the ribbons sj up to 1m, prelim dressage (not our favourite pastime lol) and up to 90cm xc.
As he is now semi retired to hacking have been looking into getting another horse to compete. Though have had comments off people that i am obviously not capable of riding anything that has some finer breed in it as only ride a cob so must be a crap rider grrrr.
I am quite confident and have ridden a range over horses over the years.
Just really upsets me that people who have never sat on my lad can judge so quickly
because GENERALLY cobs are more laid back, steadier/plods , easier to handle, better for novices and sports types are GENERALLY foreqrd going, spooky, sharper to ride and not for novices. Thats pretty much how most people perceive it and I do to an extent , I DO NOT think anyone who rides a cob must be a crap rider though!!
melony73
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I will laugh when it gets to Hoys in 2013.
do you want some sauce to go with that chip on your shoulder?
melony73
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melony73
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When I told my sister in law that I bought a hairy piebald cob, she laughed at me and said what on earth are you going to do with that. I'll be the one laughing when she's riding her unpredictable and flighty welsh d and I'm on my lovely quite cob
Honestly though, if the horse does its job, I don't think it matters if it's a tb, wb or a cob.
urm...but a welsh D is a cob?
cassie summers
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sorry...so your saying novices dont ride the more forward going sharper types and we cob people ride coblets because they are "laid back"well sorry but what a load of tosh my cob is sharp spooky and fast and so is my friends coblet who jumps 1mtre20 on a regular i have seen plenty of novice riders on your warmblood and tb types the reason i have a cob is that i dont want constant vets bills huge feed bills and crappy feet
kate.l
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My mum has a coloured cob and it's true, he's safe as houses at 5yo - will hack out in the heaviest of traffic jump a course of 90cm fly around a cross country course like an old pro and would hunt all day without so much of a moan! A bag of feed lasts him a good few months and he gets through two bales of hay a week. He's an extremely good doer and admittedly I've looked down my nose at cobs in the past but having had the pleasure of owning him for the last year I now understand people's love for them! He's an absolute little star
Dancing Queen
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Just a rant that need to get off my chest.
I own a lovely 15.2 cob who although is a lovely boy is not the most straightforward to ride. He is strong, gets really exciteable and can be a git to ride. Of course i love him to bits
He has been my competition horse over last 3 years and almost always in the ribbons sj up to 1m, prelim dressage (not our favourite pastime lol) and up to 90cm xc.
As he is now semi retired to hacking have been looking into getting another horse to compete. Though have had comments off people that i am obviously not capable of riding anything that has some finer breed in it as only ride a cob so must be a crap rider grrrr.
I am quite confident and have ridden a range over horses over the years.
Just really upsets me that people who have never sat on my lad can judge so quickly
Unfortunately thats people in the horsey world, everyone has an opinion and everyone thinks their opinion is right and YOU MUST listen to them!!
as long as you are happy then take no notice what people say - usually jealousy motivates people to make unkind comments. xx
Ranyhyn
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I'd give my right arm for a cob right now, any cob I think lol
Ignore people who look down on you, they clearly have no idea that each horse breed has individuals (the quiet TB, the crazy cob etc) and as such their opinion should be completely discounted because they have failed to notice that one pertinent point about horses.
Ignore people who look down on you, they clearly have no idea that each horse breed has individuals (the quiet TB, the crazy cob etc) and as such their opinion should be completely discounted because they have failed to notice that one pertinent point about horses.