Magnificence is available in all types of various styles and sizes — for each thoroughbred or warmblood lover, there are these of us who’re completely hooked on cobs. Right here’s only a few the reason why…
1. There’s one thing notably heart-warming a couple of cob doing dressage — what’s to not love a couple of huge, furry beast dancing as elegantly as a ballerina? Cobs might be utterly ace at dressage, if educated appropriately. In spite of everything, cobs can do something.
2. Ditto leaping. Cobs would possibly seem like they’ve 4 toes so firmly on the bottom that they’d should defy gravity to recover from a small cross-pole, however a few of them have leaping expertise to rival lots of their much less sturdy equine buddies.
3. With their calm natures (effectively most of them, more often than not), they’re excellent hunters — a stunning armchair experience for crossing nation, hovering over fences, and standing sipping port on the meet. Good occasions!
4. Who doesn’t love a horse in leg heaters? If solely furry legs had been so fascinating in human beings — it will save an entire load of cash on hair elimination cream or razors. Thoughts you, all that beautiful lengthy feather does want upkeep, in any other case they’ll look extra like these discovered on a useless crow than a chic peacock.
5. Cobs are literally the hipsters of the horse world — they’ll pull off sporting beards and moustaches, to not point out brilliant colors and funky patterns, in a manner that thoroughbreds and different taller, extra elegant, horses simply can’t. A thoroughbred in a sheep-patterned fleece rug appears just like the Queen in fluffy slippers — only a bit incorrect, someway, whereas a cob can completely model it out.
6. Cobs are straightforward — effectively, comparatively, they’re nonetheless equines in any case. Usually, you may go away them out all-year spherical — they in all probability gained’t even want a rug – and it’s unlikely any fancy feeds might be required. A handful of chaff plus a balancer and away you go.
7. They won’t take you round Badminton five-star, however cobs have definitely held their very own on the grassroots model, they usually’ll positive as hell provide you with an incredible experience out spherical your native bridleways.
8. It’s stated {that a} good present cob ought to have “the face of a woman and the bottom of a prepare dinner”. We are able to all relate to that!
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