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The oppurtunity has come up for me to excercise a 16hh thoroughbred. She's really fine and I am 5ft 11 and 10st 5 at my heaviest... I feel huge on her and so i will probably only ride her until her owner becomes confident enough to ride her but i don't want to ride her if i am going to be too heavy... so what does everyone think??

Drinks and homemade cakes to everyone who gives advice :p
 
i dont think so...apparently the biggest jockeys on NH racers are 12 stone.

and i weight 12st 7 and ride a 13.3 native, although i am currently on a diet and aiming for about 10st.

i think you'd be fine. x
 
weight wise absolutely no problem, if you're leggy guess you might feel a bit tall but will not do any harm to the horse, enjoy!
 
Thats it send the cakes our way so we are too heavy to ride our heavy cobs!! I wouldn't have thought you were too heavy, blimey you sound slim! and even if fine 16hh is still alot of horse!
 
You are nowhere near too heavy!! I am around ten stone and I have two TBs - one a 16.1hh very fine mare and the other a 15.3hh who looks more like a Cleveland Bay - this one regularly takes my OH who is 13stone to the pub and back!
It's probably your height which makes you feel too big - but honestly you are nowhere near too big!
 
you make me feel much better... i rode the horse today and felt a little bit mean but my friend has done lots of work with the horse but it still needs a lot, lot more but she is starting to loan another horse so i may take on this horse to continue working it and getting it back to its previous sane days and the owner plucks up the courage to get back on board :p
 
I think you'll be fine weight-wise, I was exercising pointers a couple of years ago and I was between 11 and 11.5 stone - and they weren't all chunky NH types either, one was a stressy, spindly little thing. Only thing I found was that at 5'8" I felt a bit big on the smallest which didn't help when she turned herself inside out (probably contributed to me coming unstuck a few times, although I wasn't the only one with that particular horse!!). I wouldn't go out and buy one as lightweight (read - built like a radiator) to own but as a temporary measure I was fine.
 
Ok you can stop showing off how slim you are now.... :D

Well, I supposed when she races she could have carried 11 - 12st so weight-wise you seem fine. Depends what exercise you want to do and what you mean by fine.

Balance is another thing to consider for both of you but if you're well balanced, no reason I can see why a tall rider and a tall horse can't be a match made in heaven :)
 
tallyho! said:
Ok you can stop showing off how slim you are now.... :D

Well, I supposed when she races she could have carried 11 - 12st so weight-wise you seem fine. Depends what exercise you want to do and what you mean by fine.

Balance is another thing to consider for both of you but if you're well balanced, no reason I can see why a tall rider and a tall horse can't be a match made in heaven :)
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My balance is fine but hers needs work... A Lot of work so I'm thinking lots of groundwork again before we do anything more... friend thats been riding her has been a little too quick to get back on board and then just let her charge from one end of the field to the other which mixed with 10 years out of work = a very unbalanced horse!
 
Sounds like you know what you're working with there and good luck sorting all that out!!
 
hmmmm it will be my first time re-schooling but with lack of arena can't loose school really and adding a rider will unbalance her further so its going to be lots of hard work but i have lots of knowledgable friends that i can ask for advice from and hopefully i have a nice little summer project on my hands :)
 
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No way are you too heavy. I am nearly ten stone and ride TBs of 15.2 hh - 16.2 hh. They are all fine, even the very slender ones.
 
Lucy oh dear.... You will be fine!!!

How could you think you are too heavy!! :eek: :eek: :eek:

Oooohh out of interest whose is this lovely thoroughbred :D

You are an inch taller than me and Java is a 15.2hh tb x appaloosa
 
Holly Hocks said:
You are nowhere near too heavy!! I am around ten stone and I have two TBs - one a 16.1hh very fine mare and the other a 15.3hh who looks more like a Cleveland Bay - this one regularly takes my OH who is 13stone to the pub and back!
It's probably your height which makes you feel too big - but honestly you are nowhere near too big!
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^^this :)
 
lucyc said:
hmmmm it will be my first time re-schooling but with lack of arena can't loose school really and adding a rider will unbalance her further so its going to be lots of hard work but i have lots of knowledgable friends that i can ask for advice from and hopefully i have a nice little summer project on my hands :)
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You could lunge to help with balance to begin with, you don't need an arena for that. Best to use two lunge lines using a cavesson not bit for unbalanced horses and just make sure transitions (halt-walk-trot) are main focus to begin with. Then build up to canter very gradually. Good luck lucyc!
 
Once horse is in full fitness and work you will be fine. It sounds like you're doing well to get her there too :-)
 
tallyho! said:
You could lunge to help with balance to begin with, you don't need an arena for that. Best to use two lunge lines using a cavesson not bit for unbalanced horses and just make sure transitions (halt-walk-trot) are main focus to begin with. Then build up to canter very gradually. Good luck lucyc!
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yeah i think thats probably what i will do and do lots of googling and asking for advice

Kirsty I shall fb you :D
 
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