Madonna's welsh cob

[joelouis]

Does anyone know the name of Madonna's welsh cob?Would love to know.

Thanks

[jackie]

Hi Joe,

Thanks for the info and helping me find some photos of Leyeswick Daniel. It was lovely to see these pictures, as some of my friends have seen him in shows and were telling me what he was like but nice to be able to see for myself. I have ordered some of the pics of him.
Sorry I cant help you out with the name of Madonna's Welsh Cob, nice to see she knows a good breed aswell.

Thanks again,
Jackie

[becky]

Madonna doesn't own the Welsh Cob he belongs to William Fox Pitt who is teaching her to ride on him. His name is Moon Man

[joelouis]

Hi

Moon Man is an eventer belonging to William Fox Pitt, Madonna owns a Welsh Cob

[becky]

Moon Man is a Welsh Cob ihe has been both Horse and Hound and Your Horse in the past month. Moon Man is an ex treking cob. Madonna owns a thoroughbred the horse she fell from.

[welshcobsrock]

AS PER "www.telegraph.co.uk"

Madonna has fallen head over heels in love - with a horse. Not the bay mare she fell off last year while celebrating her 47th birthday, but a strapping Irish gelding, Moon Man.

Most people would hang up their riding boots forever after such a horrific accident (she was left with three cracked ribs and a broken collar bone, not to mention a bruised ego), but not our Madge, who is clearly made of sterner stuff.

Moon Man and his equally dashing rider, William Fox-Pitt, are helping her to get back in the saddle again, much to the surprise of Fox-Pitt, the world number two eventer.

"I can't help but think, 'Blimey, this is Madonna!' If I tell her to do something, she says, 'Well, show me. Show me where my legs should be.' It's quite bizarre. At first, I honestly didn't know which bit of her leg I should grab."

Madonna learnt all about Fox-Pitt after "Googling" him on the internet (nice to know that celebs Google, too). Moon Man had carried him to victory in the British Open at Gatcombe last year and won him a European team gold medal in 2003.

Madonna's people got in touch last summer and the three of them, Madonna, Moon Man and Fox-Pitt, have forged a good working relationship at his stables in Dorset, despite - or perhaps because - he hasn't a clue what her latest album is called (Confessions on a Dance Floor).

"It's probably nice for her that I'm not a fan who goes weak at the knees. There's no protocol, everything is very relaxed and there's a lot of laughter.

"All the time she's asking questions, wanting to know more. She's just excited about horses. She's very athletic and fit and I only ever have to tell her anything once.

"She really wants to learn to ride properly and be a confident and professional horsewoman. She's doing it for her own pleasure and also says it's a great way to be able to enjoy the countryside."

Sting's wife, Trudi Styler, who owns dressage and race horses, introduced her to riding a year ago. Madonna had only been in the saddle for six months when she fell at Ashcombe, her 1200-acre estate on the Wiltshire/Dorset borders.

The accident, it's fair to say, didn't go down well with her record company. ("They were not keen on the idea of me injuring myself," she said recently.)

But two months later she was riding again, taking a horse down New York's West 53rd Street, accompanied by David Letterman, the chat-show host, in a very public sign that she had recovered.
Fox-Pitt had hoped to keep his relationship with the Queen of Pop out of the press. Last week, however, after the horse world was awash with rumour, he spoke to Horse & Hound with her blessing to set the record straight.

It also emerged that Madonna's family (husband Guy Ritchie, Lourdes, nine, and Rocco, five) has been given membership of the Fox-Pitt Eventing Club, a new initiative that allows people, particularly children, to follow the fortunes of two eventing horses through the season.

Membership includes a stable visit on February 25, a "course walk" led by Fox-Pitt at Badminton in May, an end-of-season party at his yard, and free entry to the club's marquee at various summer events.

Whether Madonna and family turn up to any of these remains to be seen. Lourdes, who has a pony, is currently more into ballet. But her mother has made no secret of her love of the country life, recently appearing in tweeds for Vogue, and she is reportedly considering building a three-day event course at Ashcombe, although Fox-Pitt is unaware of any plans.

All he will say is that he intends to help her build "some jumps for her own enjoyment".

In the meantime, much as she treasures her own horse, a "lovely" Welsh cob (not the one she fell off), Madonna is clearly smitten with the new male in her life.

"She's fallen in love with Moon Man," Fox-Pitt sighs. "She was apprehensive at first because he's so big and different to her horse.

"But he went very well for her and she rode him up the gallops. She says she wants my horses in her next movie. Perhaps we might see Moon Man in one of her music videos."