16.5hh!?

[Dolly_Mixture]

Have just been browsing the National Stud and noticed they have listed one of their stallions (Bahamian Bounty) as being 16.5hh - I didn't think that existed!? Or is it all different in the racing / breeding industry!?

http://www.nationalstud.co.uk/stud/index.aspx

He's bloody gorgeous regardless, but I just thought it was a bit odd!!

 

[babymare]

im thinking thats a typo error lol but mmmmmmm how gorgeous x

 

[Monkers]

Ha ha, maybe they are just trying to hide the fact that he is 17.1hh!!

 

[Cuppatea]

just looked him up, he is 16hh and a half inch.

 

[KT88]

Sorry, bit of a pointless comment but I have met that gorgeous lad!! Sweetest stallion I have ever come across, loved all the fuss from me and my coursemates!

 

[lucyc]

They've listed two as 16.5hh

 

[snoopyinfrance]

If they can make the same error twice it makes you wonder who's in charge of inputting the inof!?!?

 

[Dolly_Mixture]

Haha.. Thanks for clearing that up cuppatea! That half an inch is very important lol!

Does anyone know if you actually meet any of the horses/get to see them close up during the tours of the stud?

 

[Tnavas]

Probebly meant 16½hh. If you haven't got imperial fractions on your key board and don't know the extended character for half (Alt+0189) then an easy mistake, especially if used to metric measurements.

 

[benson21]

extended character for half (Alt+0189)

well you learn something new every day!!!!!

 

[Alec Swan]

Is English the only language, where 16.5 is the same thing as 17.1?

Alec.

 

[Lobelia_Overhill]

Probebly meant 16½hh. If you haven't got imperial fractions on your key board and don't know the extended character for half (Alt+0189) then an easy mistake, especially if used to metric measurements.

^^ this. Lots of people "height" horses as 16hh, 16½hh, 17hh etc, instead of 16hh 16.1hh, 16.2hh etc.