Sorry..another "am I too big" question!

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This is for my OH really. He is very annoyed that the local village busy-body had a go at him when he was riding last night to say he was too big for our horse. She really is a pain:(

So the details:

OH is just under 6 foot and no more than 13st. Saddle is not a heavy one and we don't have loads of unnecessary tack on the horse.

Horse is a HW traditional cob gelding, 11 yrs old, 15hh, and a bit porky at the moment.

OH has just come back from RC camp with the cob (which they both loved) and was doing lots of lessons (flatwork, show jumps, xc jumps - no more than 2'3''). None of the instructors there said he was too big.

So can I please put his mind at rest and tell him he's OK. What's your opinion?

I really need him to ride as much as possible as cob needs to lose weight, and I am unable to ride at the mo as I have been unwell with bad attack of Fibromyalgia.

Can only offer chicken fajitas - as that's whats in the oven. Probably some cooking chocolate kicking around somewhere if you're desperate. :) Thanks.x

Also, forgot to say, we had the physio out to check his back before he went to camp, and although he had a bit of stiffness she put this down to the amount of hill work he has been doing since we moved to a new yard (last yard had no hills anywhere nearby). She also said that OH was fine for horse!
 
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Tell village busy-body to bugger off and tell your OH to carry on riding. It sounds like they have a lovely partnership. (Maybe village busybody wants the horse in question for herself and is hoping that he will sell it to her?) :)
 
seems fine to me. these type of horses are made for weight carrying. I have a 15.2 welsh cob and vet said he could take up to 15 stone.
 
How silly - traditional cobs are built to carry weight. Well I hope so - I have just bought a 2 yr old Dales youngster for me and I weigh 12 stone and am 5ft 8". I don't expect to be any lighter in 2 years when it comes to riding him and i don't expect him to mature much above 14.2hh :eek:

I ride my daughter's 14.2 cob from time to time and she doesn't struggle and she is not a HW type but a medium weight.

Ignore the busy body
 
Thanks everyone for the replies- I will show this to OH later, and I'm sure it will put the smile back on his face :) We knew really that he was OK, but the comments dented his confidence and put the doubts in our minds again.

We are definitely trying to get him to lose weight, Rhino, and he's in a bare starvation paddock with only the odd carrot as a treat. Poor boy :( He can watch all the skinny TB's stuffing their faces around him - which must be like looking in a cake shop and watching all the skinny size 8 types picking out boxes of cake, but not being allowed to have any :(

I've got a friend coming out next week to help me lunge him. He wasn't that keen last time we tried - I know, hard to imagine a cob being stubborn, isn't it !!

Hopefully, I'll be feeling better soon (trying some new meds for the FMS next week) and then I can get riding again and OH will have to go and find his own horsey!
 
Grrr that busybody needs to keep her interfering judging nose out! Sounds fine to me and he has obviously been fine doing much more than plodding about, plus a physio has actually confirmed the horse is fine so there should be no doubt in your minds. People judging how much someone else's horse is happy carrying makes me angry and its such a shame when it gets to people, especially when the horse needs the exercise and they still want to ride! Maybe go and tell her she is too fat for her car/bike haha!
 
Thanks everyone...and lol at telling her she is too fat for her car. She is the type of woman who once had a pony for her daughter and still feels she is the expert on all things horsey. I do try and avoid her if at all poss, but have to ride past her house to get back to the yard.
 
I am sure if he weighed the same but was 5'4 should would not have said anything maybe she meant he looked tall ? Most western type horses are not exactly HW and usually around 15hh and are expected to carry man with heavy western saddle :)
 
echo what everyne else has said :)
dread to think what she would make of my hubby, his 5ft 9 and 13st and rides (and competes) a 14.3 appy x section d, they comfortably clear 3ft courses! ALWAYS get looks and whispered comments from people we dont know at shows...until they watch their round then its comments of what a speed demond the pony is...they certainly are a team to beat :)
 
Are these people aware that welsh section a ponies were used to carry men your husbands weight up mountains?

Your husband is not atall too big. The nosey begger. I'd have told them to mind their own bloody business.
 
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