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diegosmama

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I made the plunge this year and bought my first horse.. worked as a groom on different yards since school and rode since I was around 6 but never owned my own. So this year was the year I ventured into horsey ownership world! I bought myself a 4 yr old cob who had only been used for hacking with the aim of schooling him up myself.
Since buying him i have had several people asking what else he had in him.. Welsh someone asked. I can't see it myself. others saying he is more native than trad.. I thought he was just a traditional cob type. He's passported as 'native type' but has nothing else in it other than that.
so what do you think? is he your standard trad or a native? or are they pretty much the same thing lol

also want oppinions on what i can do showing wise next year.. im thinking feathers off pull mane and show in coloureds.. thoughts??

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so this is my boy.. thoughts for showing next year.. feathers off mane pulled and show in coloureds?
Read more at http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/foru...Need-opinions-on-my-horse#X5IMThEhRaPu1eeD.99
 
diegosmama said:
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You just needed to replace the 'url' in the tags with 'img' :). Fixed them
 
Lovely looking horse! I agree he does look quite nativey. No real advice on the showing front from me as I have very little experience. I would definitely try coloured classes.
 
i havent measured him myslef yet but the lady i bought him off said she had measured him the week before i bought him and he was around 15.1 and a 1/2. hes still a little bum high ( not as bad as he looks on the pictures as hes stood downhill) but ive been wanting to measure him but havent got a stick.. im finally at a yard with a school so can begin his schooling. he moves lovely!
 
For showing her definitely needs feathers clipping off and main pulled/plaited. He's very nice. I would suspect he has a fair bit of mix in with him and is a bit of a Heinz 57 Irish cob!
 
GG2B said:
I'd hog him and whip off the feathers :)
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I was just thinking he might make a show cob. It's the sort of thing you never really know until you try! If you're talking local shows you could always go for the more general sort of classes like riding club horse or all rounder. He's nicely marked so could do well in coloured classes too. They're always a bit of a gamble as they could have any sort of coloured in them from warmblood types to Shetlands so it's really down to judges' preference then. I know all showing is, but wide ranging classes like that always seem to favour one type which all get placed.
 
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I agree with GG2B, maybe let him grow in to himself a bit first but I reckon you might have a lovely hogged cob there (if he doesn't do too much more growing). Mine looked very like that at 4, he's twice as wide now!
 
Thankyou for the replies. Hogging him has crossed my mind but I'm not sure he has the ears for it ( they're massive) and I don't want him to look like a mule if I risk hogging him.. I suppose I'm in no rush to decide I just wanted some ideas as he doesn't seem to have a definite stamp to make it easy for me to decide. I'm just excited to be starting him in the school he's so eager and willing.. just a fab horse I want to get out to some shows and show him off :P
 
He looks to be immature still, a word of warning, before you hoover everything off, take a good hard look at his action and his conformation, if he wasn't hairy or coloured, what would he be? The saying 'silk purse out of sows ear' rings true, some people clip, trim or hog and as a result they have say 'a hunter' or 'cob' that doesn't have the quality or the action to be one. If he were mine I'd leave him be at the moment and try showing him as what he is, a native type shown in the 'traditional' manner, i.e with natural feathers and mane and tail which as a native can be neatened some. He's a native type in as much as he lacks the abundance of feather from the knee of a typical 'traditionally turned out cob' but has lesser finer feather as of some native crosses. When he's grown up and matured a bit then you can look again and see if he has the attributes to be a show cob perhaps, hogged and trimmed to the nines! Once it's chopped off that's it and if it doesn't work out it takes such a long time to get it all back, just enjoy him for what he is for now, and wait and see!! :)
 
I'm with Bobbly, I would leave him for now and turn him out as a native type coloured (he certainly doesn't have the feather to be a proper traditional) this places you in to the NCT coloured classes but not much else (unless he is young - sorry didn't note his age in which case then you have youngstock classes too)

Later you can see if he would make a show cob, he could then be shown in the same NCT class as above but it also opens up pure cob classes to you

If you whip off the feathers and not hog the mane and he doesn't make a show cob you will be left in 'no mans land' showing wise
 
diegosmama said:
i havent measured him myslef yet but the lady i bought him off said she had measured him the week before i bought him and he was around 15.1 and a 1/2. hes still a little bum high ( not as bad as he looks on the pictures as hes stood downhill) but ive been wanting to measure him but havent got a stick.. im finally at a yard with a school so can begin his schooling. he moves lovely!
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Have you had a look on the back of a weight tape? Some have height measurements on the back, not hugely accurate we've found but would give you an idea. x
 
Thanks for the replies everyone. I'll be leaving him alone for now and take him out as he is and see how we get on.. like bobbly said he still has some maturing to do so I'm in no rush. Thanks for the help and Ideas :)
 
ester said:
His ears definitely didn't come from any welsh heritage! :D

I'd be inclined to do what bobbly suggests for the time being.
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Drat, you beat me to it! They're huge!! My guess would be some Irish ancestry somewhere down the line. He has lovely markings.
 
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