Will a 3 yr old grow much more...

My ID is currently standing just over 16h, I will have to try and measure him again tonight. I was hoping he would mature around 16.3 but reading what's on here he could make well over 17h! I'm only 5ft3, so ground mounting will be fun! Not too worried about size, more concious to ensure I train him nice and light!
 
Emma is 7/8 TB. When she was 3yrs she stood approx 15.1, she will be 6 in May, now stands 16hds and still very slighty bum high. Her breeder told me that she wouldn't stop growing till she was at least 6yrs and she was right! ha ha
 
Friend's horse is 5/8 TB, rising 3 and has gone through two growth spurts in the last year, going from 16.1 to 17hh. He looks much more mature than his age belies, but there's nothing to say he won't grow a bit more yet!

Your girl is gorgeous though, and looks like she has a bit more growing to do yet. Hope you have fun together!
 
my boy is 4 in may and he is still just over 14.3 in front (possibly more 15hh now as he just had front shoes put on lol) and just over 15hh behind. He has been this height since oct last year though! refuses to catch up with his bum and i have just started rebacking him.
He is half welsh though and does look still quite leggy. I think both his parents were between 15- 15.3hh. I have my fingers tightly crossed that he makes 15.1hh but would prefer 15.2hh!!
 
I got my Welsh Section D when he was 6 months old, he is now rising 3 years old :))
I think he's about 14.2hh now. Here's a pic of my gorgeous lad Harley xxxx


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String test, if that's to be believed from the cannon down, claims my boy will be between 16.3 and 17h. So I only need to wait another 4-5 years to find out if that was right!
 
Reading this i can well see my rising 2 year old making 16hh, hopefully no more!! He has a lovely nature but there's a hell of a lot of horse in him as it is!! Looks like a mini clydesdale!!
 
LOL - showed mine in 15.2 classes (late foal) at 3 rising 4 now easily 16.3 but haven't dared to measure. Went rump high last autumn (born August) and only now starting to level out. This isn't the only one I've had grow a hand since 3/4 altough both were undernourished as babies
 
I bought a bum high 3 year old once, she didn't grow anymore so I spent the next 23 years riding down hill!
She filled out a lot but didn't grow upwards at all, she was 14.3 at the withers & 15.1 at the bum when I bought her & that's the way she stayed.
 
Ayla84 said:
Depends on the horse
My mare ayla was 14.3-15hh when i bought her as a 3 yr old, she wasnt meant to grow anymore, she`s 16.1 now
My other mare Roxy was 16hh as a 4 year old and is now 16.3:)
I do wish they`d stop growing because i`m only short :p
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fecking heeeeelll! Don't say that, mine was measured at 15hh at 21 months, 3 weeks later he went bum high again! I won't need a step ladder to get on him, at this rate and by your horses standards I will need to be dropped from a plane onto his back! lol!! :D:D:D
 
Loved reading this post I'm now very hopeful!! How have all your littlens grown to be monsters or just making the 16hh we all hope for.
Do you think mine will make 16hh she was 2 rising 3 when I had brought her 14.1 she had already had a foal!!!! was underweight and not looking well at all... she is now 3 and a bit and has grown to be just 15hh alot more weight on looking so much better I've done the string test she should make 16hh hopefully but then I'm terrible at that I have measured her bum height and that has measured as 15.3 although since then she has gone bum high agaIn!!
Just wondering what everyone thinks? She is a tb and such a sweet girl!! Although I guess we all love our gg's so height wouldn't really matter :D.xxx
 
Hmm, I don't like the string test. Did it on the baby and got 16.1. His dam was 16.3 so seemed reasonable (sire was smaller). Well he is not yet 4 and has passed 17hh, so it clearly doesn't work for all of them!
 
Think my baby has some big genes hiding in her breeding, 3 on the 1st of April and measures in at 13.3. Mum was 12.2 and dad was 13.2, most guesses are coming out at 14.1/ 14.2. She is cob x New forest and is going through the lanky stage at the moment.
 
String test was accurate for me - said 15hh! Bought him as a rising 2yo and he was barely 14hh, by 3 he was 14.2 and at rising 5 he is now 15hh and just in the middle of another growth spurt!
 
My 4yo IDx is 16hh at the moment. I don't reckon she's going to be much over 16.1hh perhaps 16.2hh at the most. But I'm quite happy with any of that! When I first sat on her as a 3 yo she was 15.2hh.
 
I hope mine levels up (photo taken at 2 years and 10 months)... might be riding down hill for the rest of our life :O
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He's three next sunday, stands about 15.3/16 hands but still higher behind! Did the string test a few months back and it said 17hands - not sure about that to be honest! He's dutch warmblood x polish warmblood.. Think we'll be waiting till end of the summer (at least) until he's level enough to think about doing anything...

Annoyingly he is about a year a head of himself mentally!
 
Think my chap has a chance of making 16.2.. He's about 2inches higher behind and i've been told warmbloods don't really fully mature until 7.

Jessie; Yours sounds like she might make 15.2? My MIL's TB mare was starved as a foal (kept on rashions in a barn until 2).. She was 14.3hh when they backed her at 3 and a half (you could JUST fit your fist between her front legs).. Now she's a solid 15.3 and widened out hugely :)! There's always hope but she reached 15.3 at about 7 (so took 4 years to properly mature and catch up). :)
 
She definitely will ! She will probs make 14.3 - 15.1 :)

My now 6 year old was 14.3 at 2 1/2, 15.1 at 3 & since 5 has been full up 16hh :)

My current 2 3 year olds are 14.2 & 14.3 & I'm expecting 15hh & 15.2 out of them :)
 
I like this thread I always wonder how big my baby will be. I have a warm blood x Irish draft and as a yearling he was 14.1 14.2, now as a 2yr old he is 15.3. Ideally wanted him to stop at 16 but don't think thats going to happen. Oh well what will be will be :-) Dam is 15.3 sire 16.
 
Hi, just wondered if anyone from this thread could update with what size your horses all ended up? I'd be very interested to know as I currently have a rising three year old 15.2hh, she'll be 3 in April, Lusitano X ISH, and I'm wondering whether she'll make 16hh!
 
Queenbee said:
******* heeeeelll! Don't say that, mine was measured at 15hh at 21 months, 3 weeks later he went bum high again! I won't need a step ladder to get on him, at this rate and by your horses standards I will need to be dropped from a plane onto his back! lol!! :D:D:D
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How big did he end up?
 
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