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Location: SE Louisiana | Of course size matters!!! Nobody wants a small glass of wine!! |
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Location: Montana | komet. - 2015-10-05 1:32 PM Of course size matters!!! Nobody wants a small glass of wine!!
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Location: Kentucky | dianeguinn - 2015-10-03 6:29 PM mollibtexan - 2015-10-02 6:29 PM Whiteboy - 2015-10-02 2:22 PM Very different feel, but size has nothing to do with speed. I used to only want to ride big horses. Now I'm ridding some 14.3 or 15, they are just as fast, but are more agile, sound and easier to get on. Amen to everything! The soundness statement so true they are less hard on their bodies! I third this. I used to run big horses, but now like the shorter ones much better, and they clock every bit as good or better.
I'll 4th this. My mare is barely, maybe, on a good day 15 hands. I'm 6 foot. I was going to pass on her because of her height but thank goodness I didn't. I feel like I can run her better than any of 15.3-16 hand horses. She is just dang quick. |
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| Are there any barrel stallion owners advertising they guarantee you babies that will mature under 15 hands ...
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| BARRELHORSE USA - 2015-10-05 10:32 PM
Are there any barrel stallion owners advertising they guarantee you babies that will mature under 15 hands ...
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Most people run in the 3d, so the larger, slower, less talented horses are just fine for them...
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| I have a 14hh and I have a 15.3 hh. Both are good for different situations in their own right. Deep dirt and home and my big First Down Dash off the track probabaly takes the cake...not so deep dirt...then my little 14hh Sunfrost/Hollywood Dun it bred horse wins every single time. There are horses like BABY FLO (14 hh tall) and horses like FREEDOM (Jana Bean) (17hh tall)....or DUKE( 16.2hh tall) All badasses in their own right ;) ITs about stride not height...and ground conditions can play a huge role as well. |
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Location: Home....Smiling M Farms | It's not always stride either ;) you can have a big horse with a long stride with slow legs or a short horse with a shorter stride with quick feet, just an analogy on strides here. :) |
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Location: Peg-Leg Julia Grimm | BARRELHORSE USA - 2015-10-05 8:32 PM
Are there any barrel stallion owners advertising they guarantee you babies that will mature under 15 hands ...
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What does that have to do with anything? I don't say they will be certain size. When they ask, I tell them the size of the mare and the size of the stud and let them come to their own conclusions. The mare is too important in the finished size of the foals. If they press me and the foal is more than 5 months old, I measure the coronet to the middle of the knee. Whatever that is, is pretty close to what the finished size might be. But that can be wrong too. Depends on if the foal has extra long pastern & cannon bones or has finished growing. |
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Location: Kentucky | BARRELHORSE USA - 2015-10-05 11:32 PM Are there any barrel stallion owners advertising they guarantee you babies that will mature under 15 hands ... Thought NOT ... END OF CONVERSATION
If there are stallion owners out there guaranteeing certain heights on babies... well, then... yikes. |
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Mine are all shorties. The two I am running now are 14.2 and 14.3. Plus the yearling I have coming up probably will top out at 14.3. I've personally never owned or ran anything over 15.2. I think if I were to jump on something bigger, I wouldnt know what to do with myself. |
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Location: MD | I will say that I am currently running horses who range from 14.3 to a legit 16.3. The big guy turns harder than anything else in my barn and is super athletic, but I bet he'd be a much nicer horse if he were 15.3. |
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