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This week.... just got it - tad slow iknow...



The first thing it thought when i saw the cover was obese horse.....???

some of the cob/hunter? types shown within to me are just fat.

or am i completely wrong?? :confused::confused::confused:
 
No you are not wrong - in my mind the show cob on the front cover is both overheight and overweight.

I have a correct height show cob, who is not overweight as hunts in the autumn and winter, but can guarentee that when we next go in the show ring we will be beaten by one of these....drives me up the wall!

What I find ironic is that the H & H is always going on about obesity in the modern show horse, but then have a horse like that on the front cover - go figure?!
 
I went to an open day at a local and high profile horse welfare organisation. They had a walk around of some of their rehabilitated horses and ponies with their loan people. A vet was commenting on each of them and I presume never took their eyes off the pre-written speil since at least one of the horses was clinically obese and one Welsh Section A, bedecked with ribbons from his success in the showring was morbidly obese. I couldn't believe it, as the vet had only just gone to great lengths to explain the dangers of overfeeding and allowing your horse to get overweight. They described laminitis and how awful it is, so anyone trying to follow their thread must have been totally confused about what constitutes fat!

With that, I lost all faith in anyone except me and a few others to keep their animals at a proper, healthy weight.

The owner of this animal will be along shortly, no doubt, to defend the creature's condition and swear it is fit, not fat and blah, blah, rubbish.

It infuriates me and H&H are as bad for using the picture :(
 
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A lot of people get horse that isn't quite a true cob and fatten it up to make it more 'cob' like. I have heard of people actually boasting about doing this.
It also annoys me that hunters should be hunters! They should be able to do a decent days hutning, which involves the horse being fit! Also fit doesn't mean thin, it is well muscled just there is no cellulite present :D
 
phew glad i didn tmake another idiot of myself :D


tbh its just huge and grosly overweigh imo........

id rather have mine more on the lean side than look like that - it will be the last time i buy the magazine!......
 
This has been discussed on a previous thread


The cob on the front cover is fit not fat - he hunts regularly and in fact, he went autumn hunting right up until HOYS

I freely admit that some show cobs are overweight, some show cobs are over height - this one is neither - he is a very big burly HEAVYWEIGHT show cob - not a riding club cob type - they're seriously sturdy animals, designed to carry a very large man.

ETA just seen Brighteyes post - I'm not the owner and am in no way connected to the horse - I've just seen him out hunting (a lot) with us
 
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spacefaer said:
This has been discussed on a previous thread


The cob on the front cover is fit not fat - he hunts regularly and in fact, he went autumn hunting right up until HOYS

I freely admit that some show cobs are overweight, some show cobs are over height - this one is neither - he is a very big burly HEAVYWEIGHT show cob - not a riding club cob type - they're seriously sturdy animals, designed to carry a very large man.
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Will have to agree to disagree. That horse, if body scored, would be classed as overweight.
 
The picture makes it look obese and overheight - maybe it was the camera angle but I would like to see more definition on a horse.

The worst case of cob obesity I witnessed was at Hoys a couple of years ago in the Search for a star class. The cob in question was so fat it had cellulite on its rump and it wobbled around the ring resembling a rhinocerous. Sadly it's rider suffered from the same problem and had to have a step ladder to get on....!? Having said that it got pulled in 3rd by Robert Oliver, so have lost all faith in cob showing now.

I also have friends in the showing world who freely admit that their cobs are overheight and would love to know how they get measured in. My only hope is that with the introduction of the Hoys maxi cob class, the overheight ones may enter these instead.

I will not compromise my cob's health and joints by having him at this weight and if that means I do not get the top placings, well so be it.
 
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