Another weight/height question

Well done on your weight loss progress!

It's a tricky time to do so, over the Christmas period and the cold months where you just want to snuggle up with comfort food.
 
Jenko109 said:
Well done on your weight loss progress!

It's a tricky time to do so, over the Christmas period and the cold months where you just want to snuggle up with comfort food.
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Thankyou!
Yes it has been hard and ultra slow (with a pause around Christmas) but weight HAS shifted 🥳 and I’m hoping should make a difference
 
Are you riding currently? Keep up with the fitness while you're looking. Well done on the weight loss.
My boy is a 13.3 Dales cross (Clydesdale blood) as per my profile pic, and I have very short legs hence me going for a pony I can hop on and off easily, rather than a horse.
I'd look at a draft cross maybe Clydesdale? You might not be able to hop on and off so easily but you wouldn't worry about the weight ratio as much. They've increased in popularity as riding horses now.
 
This is he - I was about 70kg in this pic and he was about 600kg (I've lost a bit of weight since and am now 62kg). He weighed in at 575kg on the bridge last summer at what I would consider his 'best' weight so a bit leaner than he was here, 625kg when he's fat in winter! 🙈

Excuse the saddle, I don't normally do flatwork in his jump saddle as he can only take a 17" and my dressage saddle is much more forgiving of my long thigh bones but it was away being reflocked 🙃
 

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KikiDee said:
This is he - I was about 70kg in this pic and he was about 600kg (I've lost a bit of weight since and am now 62kg). He weighed in at 575kg on the bridge last summer at what I would consider his 'best' weight so a bit leaner than he was here, 625kg when he's fat in winter! 🙈

Excuse the saddle, I don't normally do flatwork in his jump saddle as he can only take a 17" and my dressage saddle is much more forgiving of my long thigh bones but it was away being reflocked 🙃
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He’s lovely. I just want to find a 14 to 15hh if I possibly can. And if I can drop some more weight! It’s a hard struggle.
 
toooldtofalloff said:
Are you riding currently? Keep up with the fitness while you're looking. Well done on the weight loss.
My boy is a 13.3 Dales cross (Clydesdale blood) as per my profile pic, and I have very short legs hence me going for a pony I can hop on and off easily, rather than a horse.
I'd look at a draft cross maybe Clydesdale? You might not be able to hop on and off so easily but you wouldn't worry about the weight ratio as much. They've increased in popularity as riding horses now.
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I had not thought of a draft cross. Like you I have short legs so a wide horse is more tricky for me anyway.
I think riding is designed for thin tall girls.
I love the look of Fell and Dales ponies. There aren’t many around though. Highland ponies too but again not so many especially in England.
I am still riding and going to the gym 4 days a week. It’s a mission and it’s all about getting fitter and stronger and lighter for riding. It’s working but I wish my riding was improving as fast as my strength in the gym! Patience is not my best attribute!
 
Fells are easier to come by than Dales and they are ridiculously strong. A nice fit sound one will carry a huge amount of weight for its size....I'm 70kg and my neighbour's Fell mare, who probably doesn't reach 13hh, will carry me quite cheerfully (she's much faster than my 15hh cob) for steady hacking. She also has plenty of neck, which sounds silly but I have ridden Exmoors who were taller than her but had a disturbingly short neck!

As a caveat, I wouldn't ride her regularly or ask her to do anything other than hacking, and if I was buying one for myself I'd want another couple of inches in height, but my point is that a good Fell will carry an adult.
 

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