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The Original Traditional Cob Breeders
TCR recognises Irish Travellers in Ireland and Romani people in the England (the UK) for having developed (created) the Irish Cob and the Gypsy Cob as two distinctive Traditional Cob breed types.

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The Traditional Cob Registry

The Traditional Cob Registry in the UK (Referencing TGCA)
TCR is an Irish based Traditional Cob Registry that has a presence in the UK (TCR UK). The object of TCR UK is to provide TCR registration and showing classes in the UK that recognise and promote the Irish Cob and Gypsy Cob as two different Traditional Cob breeds types.

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The Traditional Cob Registry

The Traditional Cobs of Ireland and the UK
Although the Traditional Cobs of Ireland and the UK are the Irish Cob and Gypsy Cob, the Traditional Cobs of Ireland and the UK also include the Mini Cob and Stepping Cob. TCR recognises the Traditional Cobs of Ireland and the UK by registering all four Traditional Cob breed types.

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The Traditional Cob Registry

Naming and Defining a Breed – The Irish Cob
My name is Evelyn Flynn, formerly Evelyn Murphy, and this is a personal account of my introduction to an extraordinary, unnamed horse breed in the early 1980s that led me to spend over ten years seeking to have the breed officially recognised in Ireland.

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Evelyn Flynn