How much weight...

Oh boy..... a weight post........... there will now be about a million posts saying "depends on the abilty of the rider, fitness/age of the pony yadda yadda"

you will then get every weight under the sun from 6 stone max to 20 stone max.........
 
I think its a judgement call, 14hh pony would look a little daft with a tall rider, also depends on bone thickness etc etc maybe picture of ponio with rider might help? what weight were you thinking of putting on pony?
 
12/13 stone
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I am nearly 12 stone and I have ridden my friend's 14hh New Forest a few times. He had no problems carrying me.......I did look a bit silly though!

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The old Pony Club rule we were taught years ago was that 9 stone was the max for regularly riding a 14hh pony. Which effectively rules out most adults. For anything other than a fully fit and muscled (native-type) pony AND rider I would try to keep it around 10stone.
 
not a huge amount more than 13 stone, although the new forest pony sociey say in a lot of their literature that a fit healthy fully grown new forest should happily be able to carry a stone per hand they are high, so 14 stone, but not sure I would put quite that much on them regularly.
 
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