I despair! blumming youngsters growing like weeds!

[Dexter]

My supposed to make 14.2hh or there abouts sports pony (out of a 14.1hh 75% arab mare by a warmblood stallion) measured at 14.3hh today and hes only 18 months old! Hes also doing a pretty good impression of a baby cob! Huge joints, loads of bone, big bum, just generally overall 'solid'. His dad has Oberon lines so hes obviously some sort of irish throwback!

I suspected 6 months ago that he might be pretty big so when I bought a foal I looked for one that should make 14.2hh/15hhs give or take. I bought Seven who is supposedly Sec D x coloured TB type. Mum was 14.2/3hh, dad was 15hh, apparently...

He is currently standing a good 13.3hh at rising 9 months old and is currently sprouting copious amounts of feather and again is resembling a brick outhouse! I suspect I didnt get the whole truth about his parentage!

This is all very tongue in cheek as I am truly blessed to own two such quality youngsters and they make me soo happy, but I just wish they'd stop growing! There must be something going on with my field as everything we put out there sprouts up! If anyone has a youngster that isnt looking like its going to make the height send it my way

 

[TJP]

Lol, imagining 2 babies getting bigger & broader as you keep peeking through the hedge with an increasingly horrified expression

 

[Dexter]

Lol, imagining 2 babies getting bigger & broader as you keep peeking through the hedge with an increasingly horrified expression

almost except that its 4 youngsters growing in front of my eyes, literally! My denial means that we are forced to measure them occasionally to confirm that I havent, in fact shrunk, its just that they have grown I find the best way to deal with them is to see my sisters 17hand Trak first, they seem positively teeny compared to her

I am ashamed to say that today, I exclaimed in horror thinking Prides off fore was swollen and filled, then I looked at his other legs and realised they all were filled. On closer inspection, he'd just put down bone

I've just uploaded pics from today, to facebook, the ones taken when the rising 2 yr olds arrived you can clearly see me when I'm stood behind them, the ones from today, all you can see is my head peeping over them

 

[competitiondiva]

Love it dexter, I have a weed too!!! Although mine keeps going up and not out!!! He's already overtaken mum at rising 2 years old!!! I would wonder if the semen got mixed up, mum, black, 15.2 put to a bay, 16.1, offspring is chestnut and at 2 is already over 15.3!!!

 

[Dexter]

Ours like to mix it up. Sometimes they look small and chunky, then they look all gazelle like and leggy! I keep telling myself that they are growing a lot now and will slow down. I've been telling myself that for nearly a year

 

[TJP]

almost
I've just uploaded pics from today, to facebook, the ones taken when the rising 2 yr olds arrived you can clearly see me when I'm stood behind them, the ones from today, all you can see is my head peeping over them

the images just keep coming lol.

My boy will be 1 at the end of the month, he is growing tall and has decent bone but he is 1/2 RID so no surprises, he was always going to be a big lad. Just hoping he doesn't overtake his 17hh 'manny' at any stage.

 

[Dexter]

Love it dexter, I have a weed too!!! Although mine keeps going up and not out!!! He's already overtaken mum at rising 2 years old!!! I would wonder if the semen got mixed up, mum, black, 15.2 put to a bay, 16.1, offspring is chestnut and at 2 is already over 15.3!!!

I own the mother of the slightly smaller rising 2 yr old. Shes a midget, she measured in as 148cms several times and has a life height certificate, but MUST be smaller! We keep commenting on how most SJers are well over height, because if she is a true 148cms, then the youngsters heights dont bare thinking about!!