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Proper Cob conformation (and poor conformation in general in the bottom photo to a degree), but attention to thickness, head, neck, rump and hind leg set. I'd like have a drawing of the front head on as well as I've seen too many Gypsies looking way too thin in the chest. A Proper Cob should look like "you could drive a bus through it's front legs" as I was told jokingly, but meaningfully. Thick, Broad and beefy like a bulldog almost. Just check out the profile photo on the Proper Cob FB group for a great example. |
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| Authored by Show committee and Jeff Bartko editing
TYPE AND CONFORMATION...
Gypsy Horses in North America on average range from 13 to 15 hands. No height limits have been established. They are to exhibit characteristics of their Draft Horse Origin. Gypsy Horses are the product of their original environment and of crossing hardy smaller equine with draft horses during the last 50 yrs. The Clydesdale and Shire providing the heavy influence for bone and body mass.
Their colors are varied with white, gray, bay, brown, dun, roans, black, chestnut, palomino, and appy spotted. Piebalds and skewbalds are reference to broken colors. [Blagdon is a reference to solid colored or high Sabino colors. There are several dilutions present within the Gypsy Horse population as well.]
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Problems with the Breed in America...
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| CAROL SMETTEM, ON THE 2ND GYPSY HORSE WORLD SHOW AT FORT WORTH, TX ~ 2010:
"It was a real pleasure to be asked to fly in from the UK and be one of the judges at your show this year. I would like to thank everyone who helped me and made the days go so smoothly. A special thanks to Sherry Trafton-Johnson, the alternate judge, who so kindly and professionally took over my judging on the final day. I can only apologize hugely to all the exhibitors for my inability to finish the third day. For those of you who did not already know, I had come out of hospital only the Friday before and it was questionable if I would be able to do any of the judging. Thank you so much for accepting my decision to stop when I did and for all of your kind comments.
The Gypsy Cob is a unique breed in the UK and it has found its way across to America where...
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