Heavyweight cobs

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Particularly those of show cob heights. I was curious as to the usual mixes of breeds if anyone had any contributions?

Is the weight category of these horses just a bit hit and miss? So if you intended to breed a heavyweight but got a lightweight finer cob instead, sort of situation?

I was just curious. It's not often you find a horse between 14.3-15.2hh with the true 'heavyweight' label but good enough for the showring.

Ideas please :)
 
I'm not sure if this will help, but I have a true heavyweight traditional coloured cob (pic below) She is 15hh and has 10.5" of bone, which puts her in the heavyweight class. I have varying degrees of success when I show her and sometimes smaller coloured cobs (i.e.14.2hh max) are favoured above her. It really is the judges choice but for this type, the smaller are normally more popular.

As for deciding which class you have got, its all to do with the bone measurements. Under 8" is lightweight, 8-9.5" is middleweight and over 9" is heavyweight and can carry lots of weight. I hope this helps, it may not have anything to do with what you asked! ;)
Here's kinzzy.............
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Nelly is pure irish cob and has 10.5" of bone and at last height check he was 15hh.,so is a heavy weight;)
Once he matures (only 4yo) he will be very broad indeed,much broarder than he is now.:rolleyes:
with hair.
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without hair.
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Hiya NN, you measure the bone just below the knee. Get a tape measure and go right round, like you would measure your own waist! Hope that makes sense! :D
 
Beau's front leg measures 9.5 inches-does that him a proper heavyweight? My totllay non-horsey Dad said he's not a pony, he's a horse-he strands at scraping 15hh but seems bigger as he's a stocky boy!
 
you are all (apart from coyote ;)) posting coloured cobs, personally for a heavyweight hunter/cob i prefer the plain colours (that you most often see) as in the one labelled heavyweight on here

if you read the description it is quite different to what you class as a heavyweight cob (or hunter as i take it to mean), for me nelly is closest but for my liking not quite deep enough through his body :) he looks more athletic :D

ETA if you mean a show cob (not heavyweight or lightweight) and not as popular or often seen as the above mentioned classes, then this is a good 'type'
ETA (again) or this is a show cob type, many of your coloureds (or atleast how you have turned them out) are traditional.
 
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xLoopyLozzax - the liver chestnut jumping the WH fence in the last link you posted is EXACTLY the kind of cob I was thinking of.

I'm just curious as to the usual breedings of these cobs!
 
LL I don’t quite understand what you mean by cob/hunter :confused:, they are (and are shown as) totally different types. The only similarity is the fact that in both sections you get lightweights and heavyweights but that doesn’t mean a heavyweight show cob should look like a heavy weight hunter, far from it.
Talking from a showing perspective it’s very common to see coloured cobs doing well in the show ring in straight cob classes along with coloured classes. In hunters this is more rare but not unheard of and interestingly a coloured heavyweight hunter has recently qualified for HOYS in the hunter (and coloured) sections.
A lot of the horses posted above aren’t heavyweight show cobs, but that’s talking is talking from a purely showing point of view, because they are coloured traditionals but that doesn’t mean that they cant also be of a heavyweight cob ‘type’. If they were hogged and clipped some of them could also double up as show cobs quite easily. If you look on the show ring website under cobs, rather than hunters, you will see that they are two totally different types of horse and this makes many of the horses above seem much more correct (as cobs) than comparing them to the specification for a hunter does!
http://www.theshowring.co.uk/cobs.php

ETA this doesnt make much sence now, im busy doing 50 things at once and by the time id posted LL had edited so sorry for any confusion caused
ps i know of that cob jumping the wh fence at the bottom of the page and he's deffinatly a lw (and also qualified for HOYS as one)
 
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i /'ed them because i wasnt sure what the OP meant, with 2 words sandwiched together cob and heavyweight (in the showing sense) dont go together really.
 
now I am confused, why don't they go together?
you get lightweight cobs and heavyweight cobs and they are shown seperatly so how are you supposed to define them if you don't use the word heavyweight or lightweight? I know that when people say 'I ride a lightweight' (for example) you presume they mean hunter, but when they say 'I ride a lightweight cob' to me that means just that, they ride a cob thats a lightweight in lightweight cob classes. Now I've typed weight about 300 times so sorry if the dyslexia is kicking in :o
 
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