What is wrong with buying a cob?

well personally i think cob types are easier to keep too they take less feeding than a designer horse they take handle the weather and dont throw shoes and dont require shoes as often warlock used to go a solid 8 weeks with his feet and they would not be in half as much need of been done as anything else that had gone 6 weeks.
 
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I have met her and she is very into her designer fashion items etc.

[/ QUOTE ]Uck. If I didn't have to look smart for work, I would live in my joddies and muckers and darned sweaters and cap every single day. I love my horsey clothes and feel like I'm incomplete without them. I get as excited about half-chaps as some girls do about shoes.
 
Well if this is the case, then I think the YO is being a bit silly. Practical reasons are one thing, aesthetic reasons are quite another ... however in saying that, it is her yard and I suppose she says what goes
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Yes, her yard, her opinions - possibly her ex-livery.
Seriously, YO sounds a right snobby cow, and I too would be looking for another yard.
 
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well personally i think cob types are easier to keep too they take less feeding than a designer horse they take handle the weather and dont throw shoes and dont require shoes as often warlock used to go a solid 8 weeks with his feet and they would not be in half as much need of been done as anything else that had gone 6 weeks.

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Not always - we've got one of the wimpiest horses known to man-kind and he's a cob! In fact, my TBXWB (who is also a wimp!) is marginally tougher than him! I've known quite a few wimpy cobs just as some TB or WB can be well 'ard! But that's neither here nor there really!

If I was in your friend's position, I too would be looking for another yard. I hope she finds her perfect horse!
 
OMG I would have gone totally nuts if someone did that to my boy
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. Incidentally my boy doesn't wear shoes on his "big feet" therefore makes a lot less damage in the field. I would have thought that the weight spread on bigger feet would have done less damage anyway.
 
Who in their right mind cares what a horse looks like, if it can do its job???? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and I would rather have an 'ugly' but safe horse of any breed than a good looking, dangerous monster.

Weird YO, probably wants to get more money out of your friend as you said.
 
thats just plain rude and weird!
i know loads fo really gorg cobs and lots of other breeds that dont look the prettiest.
to say all cobs are ugly is just really silly and very annoying!
 
Well when I started riding 35 years ago in London my first horse was a skewbald cob who cost me £350 including tack, grooming kit and buckets!. In those days everyone regarded skewbals as "Gypsy Ponies". I could hack him everywhere by himself including through Central London and he was a little treasure. I had him for 18 years before he sadly died at the age of 25 as a result of colic. At the time there where one or two riders who if I passed them when hacking him out along the roads looked down their noses at us and treated us if we did not exist. I also bought another cob which I still have and is now 27 and still being ridden.

I am still riding out unlike many of the people I knew who have given up for various reasons and someone once commented that I got more fun from my horses than anyone else they knew.

I do not care what a horse looks like as long as the temprement is right for me.

My advice to your friend is to buy a horse that she is happy to ride and will enjoy rather than a horse that she can just look at because it's temprement is such that she will become scared to ride it.

There are too many people out there that overhorse themselves because they are too vain to buy something that does not look up-market enough. Horses are not and I reapeat are not fashion accessories.

So help her find a suitable form of conveyance that she will enjoy and if necessary keep it somewhere where the horse will be looked after properly rather than at a yard where someone just holds the horse in contempt.

Let your friend get herself a horse that she can enjoy and love.
 
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