Why do you love your cob ?

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Many years ago I used to think all cobs were great heavy , hairy creatures who would just plod around the countryside unable to jump and pretty lazy !
However , I now own one and let me tell you he is not lazy, he has a huge jump on him and he's extremely athletic and whizzy , half the time I think I'm on a TB ! BUT, I must say he's got a real sensible head on him and a fantastic nature, a real confidence giver . So tell me , why did you pick your cob over a finer breed ?

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Well mines a hairy fella and I used to see them at shows and think how smart the looked, little did I realise how much work goes into keeping them like that!!
But he is honest, brave, athletic and fun. I have no worries about taking him somewhere new or trying something different with him, he takes everything in his stride.
Also (and this is a bit shallow) but I do like it when he's clean and looking lovely at shows and I hear comments like 'wow, look at that mane' and I know all the hard work and megatek is worth it!
 
Because.......he is just the kindest, gentlest boy with a HUGE personality. I could go on and on gushing, but really, we are a very happy "couple", forgive the phrase.
 
Because i got on her and felt safe, i could have hung upside down and played the drums under her belly type safe ;) Those big kind eyes looked at me and i felt a bond. Cheesy ? ever so, but she is one of a kind... never will i be able to find another horse in my lifetime to replace her.
 
you can get really "cheesy" about gypsy cobs ! I love the way we are cantering full pelt, he sees a weed that is "too large", and does a big swerve, but I still feel safe, and end up nearly wetting myself laughing - "with" him.

We have great fun together. Cobs are so uncomplicated and FUN. It's like he takes the pee out of me occasionally, but very subtley. he has a huge sense of humour.... I adore him.
 
'Many years ago I used to think all cobs were great heavy , hairy creatures who would just plod around the countryside unable to jump and pretty lazy !'

This pretty much defines mine lol....
Because he makes me laugh with his silly scary eye (he has white scelera on one and his iris is brown with some blue mixed in), his unimpressed looks, & his numerous girlfriends who are all about 3 hands taller than him and quite a few years older!
I love the fact that he will never be a world beater and he doesn't give a damn about it!
 
Shysmum said:
you can get really "cheesy" about gypsy cobs ! I love the way we are cantering full pelt, he sees a weed that is "too large", and does a big swerve, but I still feel safe, and end up nearly wetting myself laughing - "with" him.

We have great fun together. Cobs are so uncomplicated and FUN. It's like he takes the pee out of me occasionally, but very subtley. he has a huge sense of humour.... I adore him.
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This is SO true! Ben often brings me back down to earth with a bump. He is my reality check!
 
I also love the fact that he "mugs" elderly people walking by, cos he knows they will either have mints, cough sweets or treats. He once got a Fishermans friend and spat that out in front of the poor guy - god we laughed till i almost fell off...
 
Got the biggest because we felt sorry for him and he's the first horse we've owned that has what they call "presence". Shame he's scared of his own shadow but OH rides him very well.

Got mine because he's the safest pony I've every ridden and after a nasty accident last year and shattered confidence, he has brought the fun back into riding for me.

Had the third one since he was a yearling, sold him last year but that didn't work out and he came back in the spring. Now 4, backed and going brilliantly, he's like an overgrown labrador. Not a nasty bone in his body.

The fourth one was the result of an impulse buy of a pretty mare who was 10 months pregnant last spring. Again he was sold in the autumn and it didn't work out and he came back to me a week before the one above! He's not going ANYWHERE now, he's stunning to me..... and to be his first human makes it all the more special....
 
Mines a Welshie rather than a traditional cob but is the kindest, most gentle half ton beastie you'll find! He has a cheeky side too and often thinks he's an overgrown Labrador. Wouldn't change him for the world :)
 
He keeps me on my toes :) and cracks me up when he turns into a dressage diva in front of the girls that are way out of his league! He's kind, cuddly and sensible, but he's just so much fun! I can co from galloping through the fields, to doing a dressage test to doing a working hunter class, and he takes it all in his stride :)
 
Cause she's very sweet (with me at least), always looks after me - when she spooks and goes halfway across the arean, sideways, in 2 steps she does it with her back down and head up so I don't come off :p
She can be forward and is great fun to hack out, especially when she has her tb head on but is sensible and safe, not generally spooky about most things except the cob-eating monster that lives behind big rocks!
She's sensible, looks after me but is fun and responsive at the same time. :D:D:D:D
 
Dunno why I love the great hulk basically, but I do (I think!!). He's got sweet itch, is high maintenance, for example every time I turn him out in the hot/sunny weather....... he has to have his Rambo on, OK so that's the easy part. THEN I've got to put fly stuff round his ears, sudocrem on his (white) face coz he's rubbed himself there, and more sudocrem on his muzzle to stop him burning. Then his legs need shampooing with special medicated stuff as he gets quite scabby there, and then yet more sudocrem or something putting there. (OK I hear you saying just put a fly mask on, simples - but he's a tasker at rubbing them off:). So yep, high maintenance. My loan mare I just bung her out with a fly rug and she's fine.

I love him coz he's quirky. Put a real novice or a friends 9 y.o. kiddie on him and he'll carry them like he's got a basket of eggs on board, put an experienced rider up and he'll bung in a buck for sure, the toad. He reserves the corkscrew buck for really serious riders who've only ever ridden TB's/warmbloods and think they're "experienced" (god help them).

He DOES look after me: we were out on some common ground which is used by the military for training and one minute it was all peaceful and the next minute World War 3 had broken out; soldiers were running around us with guns, there was a helicopter hovering just above the treeline which was right above us, and men were absailing down from the helicopter! Yours truly was having a total freak-out, my lovely cobbie boy just took it all in his stride and as far as he was concerned it just wasn't happening. Bless him. Then on the way home he did the most almighty spook at a crisp packet in the hedge:) That's cobs for you. Sums it all up really.

Take him hunting, or to a show, and he'll behave deplorably, unless said show takes place at a venue where he was liveried in the past, in which case he's an angel, the blighter.

Sent him out on loan with a view to buy and the blimmin thing was back in two months - but not his fault, bless him. So he's stayed, and will stay now, won't be leaving us again. Missed him too much the big softy:)

Oh something hilarious happened today: which you'll only understand if you're a cob-lover (like, on this thread yeah??). Went for a hack with a friend and in a narrow track we met two other horses face-on. One of them took one look at my traddie boy and said no thanks, ain't goin' past THAT. And spooked and turned, and just wouldn't go past mine! Did eventually, but it had obviously never seen a coloured horse before. Hilarious. We laughed all the way home.
 
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Oh God, that happened to us - some snob on her typical TB said loudly "OH HE'S NEVER SEEN A COLOURED BEFORE ". hahahahaha...Can I add that this was in Winston, near Darlington, and Shy and I laughed all the way home at your rudeness, love.

He didn't fancy your "TB". WAY above HIS class - breeder is the top Dales breeder in the country. He's probably worth double the TB.
 
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Because mine is sensible and kind enough for my novice 11yr old son to take to PC, will carry him around a small course never breaking out of trot/slow canter, and looks after him out on hacks......

But when I get on him he goes like stink and jumps anything!
 
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Because my girl is bolshy, opinionated, whizzy, funny, loving in her own way and kind enough to cart my arse around the country side. I am completely in love with her. I think I am bordering on crazy because I hate the evenings, it just seems to take so long for the morning to come when I can see her again. Help!?
 
teasle said:
Wellthey say you should buy a horse with a bum to match your own!
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I'm okay then!

I love the two different sides of him, show cob and hairy dog!

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He's a very forward jumping machine who does as asked and loves his mum and likes to walk behind me so I can protect him from scary small children, for example!
 
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Oh God, that happened to us - some snob on her typical TB said loudly "OH HE'S NEVER SEEN A COLOURED BEFORE ". hahahahaha...Can I add that this was in Winston, near Darlington, and Shy and I laughed all the way home at your rudeness, love.

He didn't fancy your "TB". WAY above HIS class - breeder is the top Dales breeder in the country. He's probably worth double the TB.
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Ohhhh! Hilarious. Yeah friend and I wet ourselves laughing this afternoon. Don't think we've ever laughed so much.
 
Because I just feel right when I'm with her... Had good fun the other morning riding out bareback, bitless, washing line reins at the same time as the racehorses were doing their exercises, all saying polite good mornings! Thinking they must think I'm a gypsy :)
 
Shysmum said:
Oh God, that happened to us - some snob on her typical TB said loudly "OH HE'S NEVER SEEN A COLOURED BEFORE ". hahahahaha...Can I add that this was in Winston, near Darlington, and Shy and I laughed all the way home at your rudeness, love.

He didn't fancy your "TB". WAY above HIS class - breeder is the top Dales breeder in the country. He's probably worth double the TB.
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Why is the fact that she said her horse has never seen a coloured horse before in any way derogatory?! It's a bit like saying a child has never tasted Chinese food before, or never seen a mixed race child before. If they haven't, then it's a fact. Not a derogatory comment. In actual fact, the only derogatory comment seen, is in your response about that person's horse. ;-)
 
Lovely horses! This thread is an interesting read - currently horse-hunting for a WB or similar for BSJA... Tried lots of beautiful, floaty TBs and WBs... And have actually fallen for the smart little fluffy cob that's for sale at the yard next door. Trying to talk myself out of it as not sure he'd be suitable (showing my cob ignorance here - honestly no offence intended, but you don't see many [any] cobs doing BS round here).

I know cobs can jump, but in general, how easy do they find it are they to collect/extend etc.? Sorry for slight hijack, just seemed a good place to ask!
 
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Sorry for that appalling last sentence - changed my mind about what I wanted to say, but the edit function won't allowme to view/change that last sentence - it just doesn't appear in the textbox!

Obviously what I was trying to say is generally, how easy do your cobs find extending or collecting? The one for sale is quite a chunky lad and I just wonder... On the one hand he is a horse, like any other, so should be perfectly capable.. . On the other, his legs are so little (and fluffy! :)) that I can't imagine his strides being very adjustable.
 
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