Settle an argument

[bouncing_ball]

How old is a horse with a birthdate of 05/05/2010?

 

[First Frost]

12

 

[Sandstone1]

13 or would have been 12 on 1st jan so rising 13.

 

[Goldenstar]

12

 

[ycbm]

It was 12 , for competition purposes, on either January 1st or on April 1st, depending which you go by. January 1st is more common now there is year round competition. It's always been January for race horses.

By date of birth it's 11 until May 5th next week but that's only used "sentimentally", not for sales description or competition.
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[BeansNsausages]

If going by the rule that all horses have their birthday on 01.01 then the horse is 12.

If working if out from the horses actual date of birth, then the horse is rising 12.

Is this a trick question?

 

[[153312]]

12 if going off every horse being a year older on 01.01.
11 if going off its birth date.

 

[dixie]

I would say 11 rising 12 !

 

[cobgoblin]

12.

 

[SEL]

I would say 11 rising 12 !

Me too! Mine is 12 on 20th May

 

[MuddyMonster]

11 until the 5th of May, then 12.

Mine has a May birthday & use the actual date.

I've always gone by actual birth date of the horse as surely otherwise you could be training or backing a way too immature horse if you go by first of January, but the horse was actually born in say August?

 

[Merry neddy man]

11 now rising 12 ( 12 on 05/05/2022).

 

[Rowreach]

Mine is 7 tomorrow. She's not a TB, therefore I don't care and I won't up her age until the actual (or thereabouts) date. If I'd been asked between January and now, I'd have said she was rising 7.

I agree with the above, if you're talking non-TBs or even TBs that are nowhere near the track, I prefer to know the actual foaling date in order to help determine when to start them etc (along with how they've developed physically and mentally). There's a big difference between a horse that was foaled in February and one that was foaled in August.

So the horse in the OP is, give or take, 12.

If we lived in Australia or anywhere in the bottom half of the planet, the universal birthdate for horses is 1st August.

 

[Nasicus]

Just about to be 12 years old. The 1st of jan way of doing things is weird, it doesn't change the fact that the horse has been on planet earth for x amount of days.

 

[PipsqueakXy22]

I’d say 11 as of today too

 

[Fred66]

Historically pre passports then 12 and for any competitions where it counts also 12 but in the day of passports it’s 11

But looks as though we aren’t settling your argument

 

[AmyMay]

11 rising 12

 

[Red-1]

I give it as rising 12 from as soon as Jan 1st comes to whenever the birthdate is. Then it is 12, until Jan 1st next year, when it becomes rising 13.

It was 11 until midnight on 31 December 2021.

That is how I describe them, now they all have passports.

I used to do Jan 1st for TBs and April 1st for other horses, but now they have passports I do the above.

 

[milliepops]

It was 12 , for competition purposes, on either January 1st or on April 1st, depending which you go by. January 1st is more common now there is year round competition. It's always been January for race horses.

By date of birth it's 11 until May 5th next week but that's only used "sentimentally", not for sales description or competition.
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this would be my take on it.

I know the birthdates of most of mine, and so they are "x this year" if anyone asks me. Hera was born in June. so she is "2 this year".

 

[catkin]

11 until the 5th of May, then 12.

Mine has a May birthday & use the actual date.

I've always gone by actual birth date of the horse as surely otherwise you could be training or backing a way too immature horse if you go by first of January, but the horse was actually born in say August?

One of mine was an August foal - and yes, we did take their age into account when backing.