the smallest horse you have ever evented???

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as an adult who rides a 14.3hh I was just wondering who events small horses, and how have they coped? Just starting out this year and dream of doing a BE90 with my little half a cob (how sad am I?)
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so stories and pictures please, I need inspired!!!!
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I have evented my 14.1 connemara X tb around intro's, and he's done some PC intermediate events [and won] so that's PN equivalent.

Phoebe Buckley's mare Little Tiger [aka Frostie] is only 15hh and is a 4* horse.

There's a min height to measure in without shoes, 142cm, so you can't event anything smaller than that! (affiliated anyway)
 
Size isn't always everything, there have been some very good small horses competing at top level and just look at the ponies that are competing at BE level.
 
In the 1980's, when you went straight in at Novice, I evented a 15hh. She wasn't exactly a big 15hh,
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but if we'd said 14.3 1/2, we wouldn't have been allowed to register her. Plucky little girl never quit at a thing, and I bet she'd have gone further given the chance!
 
Never evented myself, but owned a 15.1hh very neat and compact TB (wore a 5'9" rug) he went from doing pre-novice to jumping double clears in advanced in a year. Won at just about every level but sadly broke a leg in an accident during his second year of eventing. He was a complete star though in everything he did, from winning on the flat to showjumping at a high level, I even use to win the odd 2'3" jumping class on him!! lol!! (I won't usually go over a cross pole!!) I have another horse who has evented to intermediate level but we switched him to pure showjumping at the age of 7. He was an intermediate showjumper and is now a successful Grade A showjumper, he's 15.3hh. If their heart is in the right place and their stride is long enough to cope with the distances then I don't think size is an issue!
 
I hope these help (photo link overload I'm afraid!) - b is 14.3hh and he's half a highland, so I would imagine he wouldn't be much lighter than your wee chap and he finds BE90 a breeze heightwise, (it's me that wobbles
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Go for it - you'll LOVE it!.

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check out a thread I started a couple of weeks or so ago about size mattering to jumping - it's really encouraging
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..... I've got a 15.1 chap eventing at the moment but also a rising 4yo who hasn't even nearly made the height I was hoping for (currently 14.2 at the wither and 14.3 on the bum so I hope he'll even out!)..... I've been at a bit of a loss to know what to do with him carear wise due to his size but this thread also gives me hope
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check out a thread I started a couple of weeks or so ago about size mattering to jumping - it's really encouraging
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..... I've got a 15.1 chap eventing at the moment but also a rising 4yo who hasn't even nearly made the height I was hoping for (currently 14.2 at the wither and 14.3 on the bum so I hope he'll even out!)..... I've been at a bit of a loss to know what to do with him carear wise due to his size but this thread also gives me hope
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Get him measured in as a pony for BSJA ???
 
Mine is 15hh cob x WB and more than capable at Novice - if I wasn't so rubbish she would do Intermediate. Her neighbour at the stables is a 15.2 connie x TB who went advanced.
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As was said on the last thread - the size isn't the issue, it's scope and brain that counts IME
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What about the US teams - Theodore O'Connor the eventing super pony!!!

At only 14.1hh he competed at international top level!!! And he was part shetland

He was short listed for the Olympic Games 08 in Beijing but he had a freak accident and had to be pts
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Ralph, the blue and white pony, is 15hh. This was at the Fernie PC ODE but he will be doing big boy stuff this season:

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That's over one of the fences used in the intermediate at the now-no-longer Rolleston BE intermediate.
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My tb mare is actually 14.1hh, but on her passport is says 15hh. She has evented to 1* level, and has 5 BE points.

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Pic is of her at Henbury Hall doing the cic* in 2008. She has never had a xc fault, we even managed to do a whole season with no time penalties xc aswell!!!!!! She is currently infoal, and I am hoping the foal is at least big enough to be classed as a horse, otherwise i'll have to find a good kid to do pony trials with it!!!!!!
 
I event a small 15.2 at intermediate and a 14.2 who certainly isnt short of jump and will hopefully make it that far too.
I like small, pingy horses and prefer to ride them to bigger horses- just a matter of personal preference.
 
mine! The only horse I've evented. 15hh (a small 15hh at that!) Welbred - Welsh D x TB. We have done intro's and pre-novices. Jumps are a total breeze, its the dressage that lets us down. Also HT over BE Novice tracks, heart in my mouth at many times, but for no reason as Meg carried me safely round!
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I evented my 14HH pony up to PN without a single jumping fault, my brother has also got placings at BE90 on the same pony and it's easily capable of jumping the big tracks! Tbh I'd rather be riding her XC then my 15HH 1
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I evented a little Irishman to 1* - went double clear round Necarne then I sold him to a Junior - he would def have gone further. Here he is:

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ETA: Sorry, should have said, he was reg as 15.2 (I guessed!) but when we actually came to measure him he was under 15 hands with shoes on
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My daughter evented a 13.2 pony when she was 12, just at Intro. Talavera's right it's not strictly in the rules but he coped just fine (1st, 2nd, 3rd 6th from 6 runs!) He was the cutest thing you've ever seen - here HE is...

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As everyone has said, size is no barrier at all
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Mine's passport says 15hh but we measured him at not even quite 14.2hh! He's quite happy round an intro, but I don't know if he would have the scope for a PN....but he is also pure bred arab and they aren't exactly known for their jump or bravery so I'm pretty chuffed with him!

Dressage:
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SJ (tweseldown unaffil intro)
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And XC - don't have any actual pics from competing online but this is easily intro sized...
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Sister's only just off ponies- she rode a 14hh welsh cob until she was 12ish then when she was 13 got Ellie, a 14.2hh warmmbloodxTB who never grew (which was odd because her sire was Carnaval Drum and he always seems to have had big offspring?). Did a few 3'9 rounds on the coblet, and a few more on Ellie and they usually went very well. Both ponies preferred SJ though as they had had little experience beyond 2'6ish stuff before Al got them.

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^^ Houghton Hall Eventers Grand Prix (scarily big!). They were clear until the elimination which was because she'd pulled a muscle in her back through the bounce and it got too much.

TableDancer- your daughter's ponies are both so gorgeous! Very jealous!
 
My son had a 13hh pony when he was a lot younger and they did intermediate pc area around a PN track clear. This pony literally never said no xc, he was a complete star, and we still have him v happily semi retired.

Terrible photo of them:

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charlimouse - no time penalties for a little one is seriously impressive! Thank you for also giving me a bit of inspiration. My boy is just about 15.1hh and I hope to get him Novice by the end of this season or early next, fingers crossed
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