bone - irish draughts have?

[NeverSayNever]

i am wondering can anyone tell me on average how much bone ID's have?

 

[JenHunt]

I'm pretty sure that http://www.idhsgb.com/web/ will tell you, but think it's 9 to 10 inch

 

[Tiffany]

Pretty sure it's minimum 9" for mares although Jenhunt is right - the IDHS website will have all the info.

 

[Simsar]

I think that it was reduced a few years ago to 8.5in but i did hear something along the lines that they are now trying to go back to the more traditional with more bone, it really does very from draught to draught I know both mares and stallions with 8.5'' and then I also know mares with 10.5'' so its all relative to each horse!!

 

[Tiffany]

I know when my mare went up for RID grading the creteria was 9" although that is 6 years ago

 

[JanetGeorge]

Theoretically, there is now no 'minimum' - but you'd struggle to get a mare through grading in the UK with less than 8.75" - she'd lose marks on 'type' as well as on the front leg. And I hope I NEVER see the day when a stallion grades with less than 9".

This chap is a biggish ID (17hh at 5yo) and he has 10.25" of bone already. (He'd look silly with less! )

This chap is barely 4, and currently 16.1 (a full brother to the one above but without his tackle), and he currently measures 9.5" of bone.

 

[irishdraught]

My two RID mares: 17.2 has 10" and 16hh has 9 1/4

 

[lauraandharvey]

roughly 9"

 

[Simsar]

Unfortunately Janet some stallions have graded with less than 9'' of bone in Ireland, there are quite a few measured at under 23cm(9'') and there are a few with only 8.3''

!! However i do think that this is not the 'norm' and personally would not use an RID with such a small amount of bone.

 

[JenHunt]

they're lovely boys JG... can I have one?

my lad is described as "irish" on his passport, and we suspect he's IDx something. He's got 9 and a bit inches of bone. excuse the bandages on his back legs keeping his socks clean!

 

[Simsar]

Taken from the IDHS Ireland website
Bone
Good, strong, clean, flat bone. The bone is proportionate to the height of the horse and is not round or coarse; a minimum of 8.5 inches (21.5cms) of bone, increasing in proportion to height

I find this quite funny as on the same website in the stallion list there are stallions listed with less than the required minimum

 

[irishdraft]

I have a ID mare who has 9 1/4 bone, a rising 3 y o gelding who has 10.5 and another rising 3 yo gelding who has 9.5, so i think must be over 9" really