cobgoblin
Bugrit! Millennium hand and shrimp.
I like this one....
Why is my old headmistress riding that horse? Just needs the nuns habit.
I like this one....
Horse aside - how long is that guys lower leg?!?!
...............Horse is probably about 14.2h, the standard height for the late 17c.
Well I don't know. He's pretty but he's still too spotty for my liking!Hugin the knapstrupper stallion owned by bent branderup is so beautiful he could win anyones heart, and he is completely blind, he is an utterly stunning example of the breed.
Yes but the lower leg seems to be abnormally long in comparison to the rest of his body. I know he has heeled and topped boots but it still looks mighty long!
Erm, it's a painting...so the proportions are, em, artistic...
Cobgoblin...you were taught by Louis XIII! How old ARE you?
True, true... I take it all back... I didn't see the humour and I quite like a bit of humour...
Yes but the lower leg seems to be abnormally long in comparison to the rest of his body. I know he has heeled and topped boots but it still looks mighty long!
I've been taught this lesson over and over!
Not only that, but those individuals can change so much. My welsh was daft, ungenuine, backward and generally horrid when I first got her - I've just come out of the school beaming at how much she has changed - now willing, forward, ultra trainable and the daftness has turned into a quickness to learn. Complete turnaround.
Beautiful Sukistokes, I love blue eyes, I find them quite mesmerising.
GemG Isn't it funny how you develop your own preferences through your own experiences etc!?! Non-horsey people think they're all [horses said:the same, when quite clearly, they most certainly aren't!!!!
Someone ought to do a thread about why anyone would want to own a cob ;-)
Beryl and Boxter on this site are Knabstruppers who might win a few people over:
http://www.hofreitschule.de/reitkunst-erleben/pferde-von-a-z.html
(And that cream luso is a glorious beast)
Well I seem to like everything that's been shown in photos so far.
Blue eyes - yes
White sclera - yes
Flouncy cobs - yes etc...
I'm just wondering where the photo of Rollin's lovely Cleveland Bays is?
Thanks Faracat. A 16h Bay and Boring. CB filly both parents Quality Assured, Being schooled by a lady who competes at Prix St Georges.
Thank you ,
He is my baby
I like the blue eyes, it's interesting because you can really see where they are looking. For example I was always told the eyes followed the ears, well they don't always, sometimes moses points his ears one way and looks another. He always spots the camera.....the tart!!
Let us go for it guys. How about why you would never own a TB? I ask this because when I lived in the UK my TB owning friends spent a lot of time and money with their local vet. This does not mean I don't like TB's but I would ask a lot of questions before buying one.
You are right, he is gorgeous. If the rest of the breed was the same stamp as he, then I doubt so many would dislike them.
I really wouldn't buy anything narrow so TB's or Arab's, standardbred, FT etc. I wouldn't personally buy a cob type or anything under 17hh unless a real stamp of a horse. I'm not keen on lusitanos, gelderlanders, modern fresians, Andalusians (unless a stallion) or anything grey.
I don't dislike any of the above, but still wouldn't purchase any of the above.
What I really hate is a prissy horse that's over dramatic and fannies about. I don't mind spooking and a bit of life about them, but like a horse to have the same 'sod it, lets give it a bash' temperament as me!
I think a lot of people think Arabs are narrow spindly things but most are really not both of mine are in X wide saddles and have a leg in each corner, and most people that ride them comment how wide they are one of mine like sitting on a barrel his ribcage is huge, I am not trying to convince you to like Arabs I know they are not for everyone but I just had to comment on the narrow thing
He would cry into his sparse mane, but there's not enough of it! LOL!
Agreed, even my dainty PBA is a MW minimum (W in jeffries ), back shape is an odd one as despite being built like a tank with regard amount of bone and amount of shoulder and bum Topaz is still only a MW due to her shaping behind the withers.