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They should be had up for false advertising.....if you look closely at the pics....it is clearly NOT the same horse in each of the photos. The height and the face markings are a dead giveaway.
Best wishes
Bryndu
 
Can't say I'm shocked. Seems like a well grown colt, and driving is not anywhere near as stressful on joints, etc. as riding. Used to be common practice to drive rising 3 year olds or do light farm draught work.
 
Bryndu said:
They should be had up for false advertising.....if you look closely at the pics....it is clearly NOT the same horse in each of the photos. The height and the face markings are a dead giveaway.
Best wishes
Bryndu
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Looks like the same horse to me on the photos.
What you have to remeber OP is gypsies break their horses to harness at 18 months old.
 
Bryndu said:
They should be had up for false advertising.....if you look closely at the pics....it is clearly NOT the same horse in each of the photos. The height and the face markings are a dead giveaway.
Best wishes
Bryndu
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How do you figure that :confused: these ones are small...those ones are far away

Looks like a nice horse.
 
micki said:
What you have to remeber OP is gypsies break their horses to harness at 18 months old.
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yes i see that all too often but I was surprised at just how much work he had done for such a young horse.

Sounds like he's circumnavigated the british isles already!
:D
 
Cortez said:
Alternative view: why fiddle about for years and years "taking it sloooowly" and end up with 4,5,6 year olds that have done nothing and will never realise their potential?
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Spring is coming 3 she is at her stud being a baby and learning to be a horse intacting with horses and generally enjoying life..... she has 20 years ahead of her to be a horse who is in work...

She will backed at 3 and a bit ...... I would say by 6 she will have seen/done eveything that she will ever be expected to do in her life....

Our lad was borken at 3.5 and he is 5 coming 6 and he hunts xc sj hacks etc.... he isnt lacking anywhere....

2 year old pulling wagons is silly their bones arent ready for that......
 
Cortez said:
Can't say I'm shocked. Seems like a well grown colt, and driving is not anywhere near as stressful on joints, etc. as riding. Used to be common practice to drive rising 3 year olds or do light farm draught work.
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^^^ - This, looks a half decent driving cob, I'd buy him. :)
 
Cortez said:
Can't say I'm shocked. Seems like a well grown colt, and driving is not anywhere near as stressful on joints, etc. as riding. Used to be common practice to drive rising 3 year olds or do light farm draught work.
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Whilst i agree to some extent, there's ' a bit of light driving' and then there's the 340 miles he did in 21day as a 2yr old, pulling a very large wagon. Poor little mite.
 
micki said:
Looks like the same horse to me on the photos.
What you have to remeber OP is gypsies break their horses to harness at 18 months old.
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Not just Gypsies. My horse originally came from Ireland aged about three. He was sold to his first UK buyer as a hunter, by an apparently respectable dealer, having a documented hunting history from 2 years old. at 2 years old.
 
Cortez said:
Alternative view: why fiddle about for years and years "taking it sloooowly" and end up with 4,5,6 year olds that have done nothing and will never realise their potential?
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oops, that'll be mine then! 4 in May and not been backed or anything exciting- just basic ground manners, a bit of reining and lunging- still growing, so will be backed and ridden away lightly this summer- if ready- before being turned away next winter and starting any 'proper' work as a 5 year old- and still got plenty of years to 'realise his potential' and won't burn out by the age of 8!
 
Nice driving cob , very mature looking would love a look at his passport.
I would look at him But I would want a vet all over him like a rash.
 
it looks like a lovely cob to me, and I would definitely buy him!

I have a gypsy bred Irish Vanner Cob, I bought him as a 6 year old from the person who bought him from Romany's and shipped him to the UK. It has been a eye opener to me; I was like the majority of people didn't give gypsies the time of the day when it comes to horses. But now, I have changed my view. My cob was and is calm, nothing fazes him, he's totally bombproof - there is nothing on the road that scares him! He loads into anything and travels well. He is barefoot, probably never had a shoe on, and his feet are like concrete - he actually sounds shod!

The downs have been; he had no comprehension of leg aids, and lungeing him still is only for the feint hearted as he will only lunge at top speed!!!, If you raise your voice to him he goes into panic mode, so everything has to be done on a softly, softly basis - which I have learnt gets so much better results.

Romany's developed and bred the vanner cob, and I have to take my hat off to them - stunning breed!
 
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