How big are/were your 2 year olds? <<pics>>

StormyGale said:
my wb is currently 2 yrs 4 months so just over two is standing at 16.2 hopefully stopping around 17 mark or smidge over has knees like dinner plates and croup is still about 2-3inches high :) big lad but beautiful dun although is resembling a dirty polar bear at the mo and praying his head stops growing and ears dont grow any bigger lol think he was crossed with a rabbit in his breeding he he
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We do need pics...

noodle_ said:
I own a midget....



shes 14.1ish atm but bum high! im hoping she will make around 15hh! (dads 14.2 stocky but dont know how big her dam is...i think around 16hh total guess tho)

shes two btw :)

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TJP said:
Midgets are the way forward!! My spottie one was smaller than that at 2!!


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2 year old by French Buffet out of mare by Cloverhill. Stood approx 16.1hh at 2.

For Luci07 - this took much sweat & tears ;)
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He looks HUGE!!!
 
mine looks huge? or the very smexy one above?!

Grace is a midget.... shes meant to make around 15.2 i dont mind if she dosent as she will be my "bombing around pony" anyhow :D
 
noodle_ said:
mine looks huge? or the very smexy one above?!

Grace is a midget.... shes meant to make around 15.2 i dont mind if she dosent as she will be my "bombing around pony" anyhow :D
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Grr the iPad muddle it up!

I tried to say 'midgets are the way forward, my spottie one was smaller than yours at 2!' to you!!

She makes up for it by being ace though and she is very pingy now I've started jumping her!! I also quite like bombing around on her too (and riding her to the pub!!!) :p
 
Ben was 15.1 as a 2 year old...

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This was him as a 3 yr old... 15.2,
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He's now 3yrs 7 months and still 15.2...

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I'm quietly hoping for squeezing another couple of inches out of him, but I'm not hopefull as we've only had an inch in the last 18 months and he looks pretty mature in his frame and has done for a while.
 
The colt I worked with a bit at our yard was 15.2hh as a 2 year old and is now about 16.1hh as a 3 year old (we don't expect him to grow much more as his dam is 16.1hh and his sire is 16.2hh). In this photo he was a colt, but due to being a horrid ****** - his testicles have suffered the consequences and he is now a gelding ^_^. He's also nearly snow white now (born bay with the most gorgeous markings and unfortunately greyed out very quickly)

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Fons was 15.2 as a two year old in may now 15.3 and has gone bum high again would like him to make 16.1 . His dam is 15.2 and sire 16.2. Dam however is small when you look at her blood line and was expected to make 16.1 which is the reason why she came from Holland as a 6yr old to small for her male owner she was our gain and we still have her now at 15 yrs.
 
He's nice Stormygale! got some size to him without being too chunky.

Found one of my boy having a little lunge aged 3 and 9 months. Just to show his dinner plate knees!

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and this is, embarrasingly (!!!) him at 2 years and 2 months!

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carmenlucy123 said:
Christsam said:
and this is, embarrasingly (!!!) him at 2 years and 2 months!

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hee hee thereshope for my fluff ball yearling then sometimes I recoil looking at her ;)
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Oh yes definately! Mine looks like an overgrown new forest in winter!!! That is one of only a couple of photos of him aged 2!!! He has now grown into this, so dont despair of fluff balls! Mine was a little ginger fluff ball when i bought him!

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Oh wow he is absolutely gorgeous - i have a pic of him when he had just turned 2 years old and had lovely summer coat he looks like something out of a movie lol and now hes returned to fluffy polar bear weird sand colour lol - i hope he looks half the horse yours is he is just stunning!
 
StormyGale said:
Oh wow he is absolutely gorgeous - i have a pic of him when he had just turned 2 years old and had lovely summer coat he looks like something out of a movie lol and now hes returned to fluffy polar bear weird sand colour lol - i hope he looks half the horse yours is he is just stunning!
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If youre talking about princey then he may be stunning but he is a little s**t!!!! lol. Nah, he is okay really. Just a normal bolshy 4 year old gelding! I love seeing them grow up and you get such a bond with them. I bought him at 3 months and he came home at 6 months and he turns 4 in a month :) Ive rugged him up this year so he doesnt get a humungous winter coat but he has dark above his eyes this year and it looks like eyeshadow! lol.

they nearly always look awful at 2. I have no piccies of him in summer at 2 as he was fine weightwise but no matter what angle you caught him at with the camera he looked like he had been starved! lol
 
Christsam said:
If youre talking about princey then he may be stunning but he is a little s**t!!!! lol. Nah, he is okay really. Just a normal bolshy 4 year old gelding! I love seeing them grow up and you get such a bond with them. I bought him at 3 months and he came home at 6 months and he turns 4 in a month :) Ive rugged him up this year so he doesnt get a humungous winter coat but he has dark above his eyes this year and it looks like eyeshadow! lol.

they nearly always look awful at 2. I have no piccies of him in summer at 2 as he was fine weightwise but no matter what angle you caught him at with the camera he looked like he had been starved! lol
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Ha ha i know exactly what you mean my boy actually looks fat believe it or not but the whole camera adds 10 pounds thing is definatley not true in his case i think he loses 100 lol - just slightly off topic when did you break him in?have only recently just got him and sent passport off to change name i've realised hes actually 2 yrs and 7 months - i have long reined and hes had saddle on without / with stirrups - i have kept lunging to a minimum as he is large and i don't like to lunge too much for fitness levels and circles on baby joints - hes just so laid back its unbelieveable - i've broken loads of horses but this is my boy and a keeper for a long long time and as i want him for jumping onviously that will come in a year or so starting that but just wondered what you did as your boy looks good on whatever you have done with him?
 
StormyGale said:
Ha ha i know exactly what you mean my boy actually looks fat believe it or not but the whole camera adds 10 pounds thing is definatley not true in his case i think he loses 100 lol - just slightly off topic when did you break him in?have only recently just got him and sent passport off to change name i've realised hes actually 2 yrs and 7 months - i have long reined and hes had saddle on without / with stirrups - i have kept lunging to a minimum as he is large and i don't like to lunge too much for fitness levels and circles on baby joints - hes just so laid back its unbelieveable - i've broken loads of horses but this is my boy and a keeper for a long long time and as i want him for jumping onviously that will come in a year or so starting that but just wondered what you did as your boy looks good on whatever you have done with him?
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I was in much the same situation with you. I had an arab mare on loan before who i re-broke as she was ruined before and have helped breaking/backing and bringing on but he was my first youngster! He is really not very well developed so he has never really been pushed. I used to let him run in the indoor arena at his old yard as a baby, just to get used to being in there with me in there, etc. He did a tiny bit of lungeing in the sense that i had a lunge line on him, to take some fizz off him and get him listening a bit at a year old but decided to geld and turn out again. Up until the spring this year he has not done much at all! He moved yards in March and up until then he was out pretty much 24 hours a day. he would come in and out for handling and feed but noth much else. I think i had a saddle on him at two and a half ish and did a few lunges just to get him used to it and then turned back out for winter. once he settled he has been lunged tacked up and started over jumps on the lunge (but he is soooo stupid when it comes to jumping) and had a lot of groundwork. Started long reining and he took to it like a duck to water!

Then back in late summer i got it into my head i was going to get on and that was that one day. He was not ready to do a lot of work with a rider but I thought I should back him before the Winter otherwise its leaving it too late. First leant over and got up in the stable as we only have an outdoor arena. Then first time i walked on him i did it in the yard (figured he wouldnt be so likely to buck on concrete).

then have ridden in the arena a few times but nothing out of walk. Just enough to teach him to walk forward and steering. I did (and i got a lot of flak on here for it) start hopping up and getting someone to lead up from the field and then he kicked off, pulled away and cantered back down the track with me on just a rug! no silliness other than the turn and canter and it was not out of control. I figured i would be safer and it would be better for him if i didnt try to pull and just sat quietly! He does not really get steering yet. he is not balanced enough and he feels like youre sitting on a fence! He turns his head and walks straight and when i touched with that leg to encourage him to step away he turned and bit it whilst still walking! He will not do much over winter and i will start work again in the Spring. I have April off work to break him fully and I am hoping to get his breeder over to ride him a few times as well. Other than that it has all been done by little me!

Probably not the best way to break but there you go :D As you can see, he looks small with a rider! im 5'8 and slim and he looks nowhere near ready for proper work. this was first time up

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Christsam said:
just realised stormy gale you are just up from us in sunny cornwall :)
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ha ha yeah in not so sunny devon lol - well im just slightly on the somerset border i live right on blackdown hill whereabouts in cornwall are you - well you are brave getting on - i think whatever works for people works at the end of the day as long as horse is happy and your happy and safe thats what matters - hes had saddle on so my plan is to keep at it for a few more weeks and lean over and then hopefully get on him - hes spot on with his directions and stopping backing up ect. and is v good at stopping and starting so hopefully will translate to being ridden (i hope :rolleyes:) - like you say he looks so much smaller with someone on him - isn't funny how they shrink when you put a rider on ha ha! think my boy is goign other way bless him i swear he s a hand bigger everytime i see him - i think he has a stash of food i dont' knwo about
 
StormyGale said:
ha ha yeah in not so sunny devon lol - well im just slightly on the somerset border i live right on blackdown hill whereabouts in cornwall are you - well you are brave getting on - i think whatever works for people works at the end of the day as long as horse is happy and your happy and safe thats what matters - hes had saddle on so my plan is to keep at it for a few more weeks and lean over and then hopefully get on him - hes spot on with his directions and stopping backing up ect. and is v good at stopping and starting so hopefully will translate to being ridden (i hope :rolleyes:) - like you say he looks so much smaller with someone on him - isn't funny how they shrink when you put a rider on ha ha! think my boy is goign other way bless him i swear he s a hand bigger everytime i see him - i think he has a stash of food i dont' knwo about
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We are down in Mid Cornwall. been through blackdown several times. Love some of the little villages through that way. seems like you are doing the right thing and it really is whatever works for your horse. The other thing is that yours looks more developed and stronger in himself. Poor princey has no chest at all :( Im very aware that mine will be a handful but i also know he will be seriously unhappy if he got sent away to break (he sulked and refused to eat when i went away for a week) so have tried to give him the best start I could and hopefully go from there. I just try not to treat him any differently except to be a bit tougher with him. in the last few weeks he has realised his strength and has cottoned on to the fact that if he decides he is going to go off across the yard then there is little i can do to stop him on a headcollar! Luckily he only ever just puts his head down and walks, nothing faster than that! Yeah he is probably nipping off to the hay barn whilst swearing at you for not giving him the food he needs to grown to 18 hands! lol
 
Christsam said:
We are down in Mid Cornwall. been through blackdown several times. Love some of the little villages through that way. seems like you are doing the right thing and it really is whatever works for your horse. The other thing is that yours looks more developed and stronger in himself. Poor princey has no chest at all :( Im very aware that mine will be a handful but i also know he will be seriously unhappy if he got sent away to break (he sulked and refused to eat when i went away for a week) so have tried to give him the best start I could and hopefully go from there. I just try not to treat him any differently except to be a bit tougher with him. in the last few weeks he has realised his strength and has cottoned on to the fact that if he decides he is going to go off across the yard then there is little i can do to stop him on a headcollar! Luckily he only ever just puts his head down and walks, nothing faster than that! Yeah he is probably nipping off to the hay barn whilst swearing at you for not giving him the food he needs to grown to 18 hands! lol
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lol yeah 17 or just overy is plenty fine for me ha ha. have you tried leading him in his bridle just to save having a battle and he'll learn he can't drag you around?
 
StormyGale said:
lol yeah 17 or just overy is plenty fine for me ha ha. have you tried leading him in his bridle just to save having a battle and he'll learn he can't drag you around?
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tehe yes we are on his fourth or fifth week of leading in a bridle and he behaves himself and we have had phases of needing to lead in a bridle for a couple of weeks to remind him of manners. this is the longest i have had to lead in a bridle so i think he is getting to the naughty and stroppy stage. Though part of that is because he is having fun playing with the bit in his mouth! I bought him a control halter and used it for the first time this morning. he thought he was in a headcollar, pulled, then glared and me and kicked off because it put pressure on his nose. then, of course, the more he faffed around the more it pressed! he was not a happy boy! the rest of the way we spent going sideways with him glaring at me like i had tried to kill him!
 
Christsam said:
tehe yes we are on his fourth or fifth week of leading in a bridle and he behaves himself and we have had phases of needing to lead in a bridle for a couple of weeks to remind him of manners. this is the longest i have had to lead in a bridle so i think he is getting to the naughty and stroppy stage. Though part of that is because he is having fun playing with the bit in his mouth! I bought him a control halter and used it for the first time this morning. he thought he was in a headcollar, pulled, then glared and me and kicked off because it put pressure on his nose. then, of course, the more he faffed around the more it pressed! he was not a happy boy! the rest of the way we spent going sideways with him glaring at me like i had tried to kill him!
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ah the delights of owning a youngster ha ha! sounds like your doing well with him - what do you want to do with him eventually?
 
StormyGale said:
ah the delights of owning a youngster ha ha! sounds like your doing well with him - what do you want to do with him eventually?
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Dressage hopefully. he had lovely paces as a baby and already did flying changes whilst bombing around every time he changed direction or the bend so hopefully he will suit it well!

are you jumping yours then if you want a jumper? probaly not a lot if you are like me! i dont like seeing them do it too early. Are you breaking yourself?
 
She's now 16.3 as a 6yo (photo courtesy of Selene Scarsi)
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Gorgeous!!!

Our 2 and a half is now standing at 15.1hh. Whatever he grows into now is a bonus, he's already at hight for me. But my OH is 6ft (but with short legs!) so ideally another 2-3inches would be ideal :)
 
My girly, she is 2 1/2 yrs old, i think looking at her she's around 14.1 - 14.2hh shes small compared to most of yours, this is her grazing with my 13.2hh

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My Shagya Arab filly aged 2 1/2 at a youngstock class for endurance horses. (Not a good pic as photographer could not shoot from behind the judges).

She is about 15.2hh in this pic, taller than her full brother we expect her to make 16hh.


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