Am I too big? (follow on with photos)

3bh said:
Thats got to be the smallest 16hh if you are 5'8''!! ;-)
I am 5'11'' and this is me on a very very light build 15.1hh (recently out of racing) -
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I think in your case also if you let your stirrups down to a "normal" length rather than trying to hitch them up to look smaller you will look much more in proportion and balanced and the picture will look much better!
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Totally agree if that horse is 16hh, then i'm a dutchman (which i'm not!!).

I have a 16.3hh British Hanoverian and i am 5'5 and i look tiny on her!
 
Falling off a small horse hurts less than falling off a big horse. ;) :D

She looks lovely and you look fine on her. If you like her then buy her, if you have doubts (other than her height), then keep looking.
 
loverly said:
Sorrrrry everyone! I've ridden mainly 17hh+ and this is the first 16hh I've ridden in a long time so I've got used to looking small on a horse and when i showed my friend she said I looked rather too tall (long back!!) for the horse.
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I do agree with your friend there, you do look rather long backed for the horse, its not your leg length thats the issue, it is your back length (sorry). And yes i would put her at around 15.2 to 15.3hh as i have one horse that 16.3hh and one horse of 15.2hh. I was always taught that it wasnt the length of your legs,but the length of your back that denoted whether you were too big or too small for a horse, as the taller you sat above a horse, the more of a possible leverage you created. Sorry, again!!
 
Yes,you look long in the body(which I am too:)) and that's why you look too big. She can take your leg length up but still don't think she's 16hh. Borrow a measuring stick. If she is,consider my hat eaten.;)
 
mandyroberts said:
I'm the opposite of Achinghips. Downgraded from 16.3 fairly wide WB to 15.2 mid width wB - best thing I did. He feels tiny but no aching hips! But I am 5ft3in.
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Actually mandyroberts I downgraded too - to 16.1hh. My aching hips are due to the fact I'm of a more mature ilk!! :D

OP I think others are probably right, she does seem to look a little bit smaller than the height you have been told, however, it is very hard to tell accurately from photos:).
 
You don't look too big at all but if she is 16hh I am the pope. ;)

I am 5ft 8 and my mare is 15hh but a wide quarter horse. Hubby's mare is the same height (they are sisters) and he is 6ft 4. I have a photo somewhere of him on a 15.2 QH and he looked fine on her. :)
 
The important thing is whether or not you feel comfortable. I have felt too tall in the past and it isn't a comfortable feeling! You certainly aren't too heavy. :)
 
I know how you feel. I'm 5'10" and went down from a 17.2 sports horse to a fairly fine TBx and posted on here asking if I was too big. I got it in my head she was about 15.2 but turns out she's 16.1 and it just took me a while to adjust. It helped that she's a big moving horse, which a Hanoverian probably is too...?
 
You look fine, just drop the stirrups ten holes :-P Im 6foot and ride anything from a 14hh pony to 17.2hh monster and everything between and would pick the ponies every time. So long as you feel comfy on her :-)
 
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