Why do people want to own cobs?

Just to point out that my cob's former job was educating wussy eventers about going into water - seriously! It was obviously his water-displacing properties wot did it!
 
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moleskinsmum said:
Just to point out that my cob's former job was educating wussy eventers about going into water - seriously! It was obviously his water-displacing properties wot did it!
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But that’s smart of the eventers - any horse eating animals in the water would attack the cob first, then after eating the cob they’d be so full that the eventers can pass through water safely.

Or, the cob tests the depth of water first, too deep and the eventers can jump onto the cob’s back which acts as a barge.
 
Penny Less said:
This is a golden opportunity for someone to produce a series of birthday cards cob related, as the pictures conjured up by the remarks on this th read are brilliant! Not me though I havent a crafty / artistic bone in my body
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Half a million views this thread has received - have I been given my fee from HHO? No, I haven't! :mad:
And now you want to harvest further cob cartoon card cash for HHO from my original idea!

(I admit I'm surprised I've never been banned from HHO - not even a temporary 'holiday').
 
I finally got one. Great big clumsy thing. Can bloody shift when he wants to, though, as I found out the other week when a cyclist popped out from a side track and I was left in mid air, in an "Oh f***" moment. He is self-cleaning, though. I can bathe him, watch him roll himself two-tone, then go up a few hours later and he's sparkly white again! We call him Persil horse. He's not flat backed, either. I can't decide if he's still under muscled (only just turned 6) or if that's what slim cobs look like (I've managed to keep him quite trim). He also doesn't appreciate he's a horse, not a pony and likes to go up and down steep mountain bike tracks - he's rather agile, despite dinner plate feet!

He is like a cat with a tin opener, though. Deaf to everything, but if I open the door to the feed store, he goes from 0-60 at the bottom of the hill and voom! There he is. I have to sneak in like a burglar and hope he doesn't look up, or I have to shut myself in to make up feeds.

No idea why i bought him. Never wanted a white feathered horse. Ho hum.
 
Fransurrey said:
I finally got one. Great big clumsy thing. Can bloody shift when he wants to, though, as I found out the other week when a cyclist popped out from a side track and I was left in mid air, in an "Oh f***" moment. He is self-cleaning, though. I can bathe him, watch him roll himself two-tone, then go up a few hours later and he's sparkly white again! We call him Persil horse. He's not flat backed, either. I can't decide if he's still under muscled (only just turned 6) or if that's what slim cobs look like (I've managed to keep him quite trim). He also doesn't appreciate he's a horse, not a pony and likes to go up and down steep mountain bike tracks - he's rather agile, despite dinner plate feet!

He is like a cat with a tin opener, though. Deaf to everything, but if I open the door to the feed store, he goes from 0-60 at the bottom of the hill and voom! There he is. I have to sneak in like a burglar and hope he doesn't look up, or I have to shut myself in to make up feeds.

No idea why i bought him. Never wanted a white feathered horse. Ho hum.
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Despair. Another succumbs to the dreadful illness.

We wish you well Fransurrey. We wish you well. Get well soon dear one.
 
Fransurrey said:
I finally got one. Great big clumsy thing. Can bloody shift when he wants to, though, as I found out the other week when a cyclist popped out from a side track and I was left in mid air, in an "Oh f***" moment. He is self-cleaning, though. I can bathe him, watch him roll himself two-tone, then go up a few hours later and he's sparkly white again! We call him Persil horse. He's not flat backed, either. I can't decide if he's still under muscled (only just turned 6) or if that's what slim cobs look like (I've managed to keep him quite trim). He also doesn't appreciate he's a horse, not a pony and likes to go up and down steep mountain bike tracks - he's rather agile, despite dinner plate feet!

He is like a cat with a tin opener, though. Deaf to everything, but if I open the door to the feed store, he goes from 0-60 at the bottom of the hill and voom! There he is. I have to sneak in like a burglar and hope he doesn't look up, or I have to shut myself in to make up feeds.

No idea why i bought him. Never wanted a white feathered horse. Ho hum.
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Had he cloaked himself as a bay sports horse?

Not many people know that cobs have cloaking abilities... How do you think so many of us end up with them?

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cobgoblin said:
Had he cloaked himself as a bay sports horse?

Not many people know that cobs have cloaking abilities... How do you think so many of us end up with them?

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I have one of those. Mine uses the cunning disguise of a fleabitten grey sport horse. His dinner plate hooves were the first clue🧐 His cover has since been completely blown...
 
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