Showing a "Cob"

[mcnaughty]

We went to Equifest this week - OMG it was amazing - like a grown up PC camp!

Anyway, I have just bough myself a potential show cob and took the time out to tear myself away from the M&M LR classes to get some ideas. In the first class I watched (HW COB) in walked the hogged chubbies followed at the rear by a hairy traditional. Need I add that she came last - I spoke to her mum (who happened to be sitting next to me at ringside) and said she is in the wrong class but they insisted that it said nowhere on the schedule that they should be hogged. 3 days later, I am sitting in the grandstand watching a HW cob qualifier (they qualified at show elsewhere) and in comes the same traditional. This time they were stopped and basically told to leave.

So, who is at fault here? The owner for not realising the difference between a traditional and a "cob", the show for not specifying on a schedule but assuming that everyone that has any experience with showing knows that a "cob" is hogged and trimmed or the show she qualified from for not pointing out the error weeks before when she qualified???

 

[WelshD]

I was placed last in a cob class as a teen, I maintained that as my boy was a welsh cob he should be allowed to enter but was most embarrassed that I hadn't researched my subject and I actually showed ponies a few years before so maybe should have realised

In short I think there should be clearer wording in schedules

I show poultry and the schedules are often a little confusing peppered with words for those 'in the know' personally I do believe that any show trying to attract more entries needs to look to and assist the newcomers and locals as this is how people become hooked and shows grow

 

[natalia]

No it's riders fault. Show cobs are shown fully hogged and trimmed. The only classes you can do with a traditional are coloureds and their own gypsy cob classes which are becoming more popular as it means the solid
Coloured hairies can also show.

 

[WelshD]

People who do not show often or just do their local show once a year aren't psychic though

A line in the schedule below each class would be helpful eg:
HW COB 'show cob hogged and trimmed'
M&M 'exhibits to be shown natural and unplaited'

 

[**Vanner**]

It does also seem to be a problem in so much that the smaller shows that you qualify at do not make the distinction so you can end up with a ticket into the wrong class.

Our local show puts hairy and hogged cobs together and states that in the schedule. However it doesn't separate as regards qualification to equifest!

So if she is a novice shower she may well have fallen foul to this.