The audience was amazed by what an Irish cob managed to do at Claremorris Agricultural show in Ireland. When we think of a cob we probably don’t consider it to be a great jumper and especially to jump that high. Even the Tara the rider who has owned Blue since it was one year old was surprised and said, “I didn’t think it would go so high and I didn’t think the show would be as big as it was! He’s never jumped anything that high. He competes up to 1.25 showjumping — he’s just a freak.
He’s a freak of nature because he’s heavy, with hooves the size of dinner plates and he’s as athletic as any blood horse.” Cobs aren’t known to be great jumpers but as he has come out of a 14.2hh coloured cob and by a Clydesdale stallion maybe he’s got something from the pony. Tara doesn’t want to give up but will go on trying jumping obstacles even though she says that she’s just an amateur and it’s just a cob. Tara simply doesn’t stop here because she wants to show the world that cobs are as capable as any other showjumping horses.
She says, “A lot of people pre-judge cobs. I know when I went into the warm-up, people thought ‘look at the hairy cob’! Cobs are extremely talented but they are judged; I just want the world to know cobs can do it just as well as blood horses. I would never part with him. I trust that horse with my life which is mad, but I really do. I’m so proud of him; he’s such an honest genuine horse.”
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