Hannah♡
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Im looking to buy my first horse and i'm wondering what height would suit. I am 5'11 so would 15hh be too small im not sure. Thanks
I am five feet five .
I feel slightly under horsed on a 15.3 and ok on a 16.2 .
But I am happiest on a 16 or a 16.1 .
Having said I have had much bigger horses and enjoyed them .
Really?? 5'5 and a 15.3 is underhorsed?
I tease... tongue in cheek
When I was 20 I too felt underhorsed on a 15.3 (I'm 5'6) it was like riding a pony. I had a 17.3 at the time . I seem to have gone down a hand per decade as I now think 15.3 might even too big ... by time I'm 70 (please God let me still be riding) I'll be on a 12.2
I guess it depends on how you feel as well as height/weight/discipline/horse etc
Ha ha, that's funny isn't it? I too have had a steady downward spiral in the heights from 17+ handers (one was 18h!) to my current 14.2 - 15.2 range (and I think the 15.2 is huge). It was also something of a fashion for a while to ride enormous horses, I think, but really it's so much easier to do EVERYTHING with a middling sized horse - from feeding to getting on and off. When we had the 18h horse we had to get a bigger lorry, tailor made rugs, bridles, everything. he was a sweetie, but I won't have anything over 15.2 again.
It depends....on your build, on the horse's build, on what you want to do. This is me (5'9" & long in the leg) on a 14.2hh chunky Friesian cross:
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I have a 15.1hh cob and am 5'9 with 32-33" legs. He does take up the leg nicely - my stirrups are a hole shorter than normal here as we were hacking out on a very windy day and he felt like a coiled spring!
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Cortez - that is just WOW!! I would so love to do that! I've been trying to convince Arch he could be a charger...
Looks like an Old Master oil painting!If that's Archie, he would be a spectacular charger - just the right type. Here's an old pic of a cob I had many years ago: he LOVED being a warhorse View attachment 28314
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