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| totallysmitten |
Posted - 15 Aug 2011 : 11:05:15 AM
Hello 
I'd like the benefit of your experience please... I'm considering buying a stunning arab x QH who is 2 yrs old. Her parents are both around 15.1 and she presently stands at 14hh, how much more growth do you think it is reasonable to expect?
She is leaning more toward the arab in build, and if she weren't to grow to more than 14.3 do you feel a well balanced 10 stone rider (before saddle) is a lot to ask her to carry when fully mature, if doing long distance rides and classical dressage training?
Thank you! |
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| totallysmitten |
Posted - 16 Aug 2011 : 10:33:23 AM
Oh crikey, I don't want that either!!  |
| arabesque |
Posted - 15 Aug 2011 : 8:09:47 PM
They can surprise you with their height at maturity - I bought a pure bred 2 year old expecting him to mature at around 15hh (Mum 14.2ishhh, Dad 15hh), he's now seven years old and at least 16hh! |
| totallysmitten |
Posted - 15 Aug 2011 : 11:55:49 AM
Hi Quarabian, thanks for the reassurance.
Yes its so regrettable that QH's are treated in this way when they are just babies. My QH x highland mare came to me with back problems and labelled as dangerous simply because she was in pain having been started by a great lump, on a circle in a round pen, as a little girl. What's the hurry?  |
| Quarabian |
Posted - 15 Aug 2011 : 11:51:13 AM
Both arabs and quarter horses are weight carriers so you should be okay as long as you start slowly and don't go for the QH thing of starting at 2 years old (silly people).
Welcome to AL as you can see from my name I am a quarab fan. |
| totallysmitten |
Posted - 15 Aug 2011 : 11:48:51 AM
Yes isn't it terrible!
I must say I've been enjoying the Crabbet pictures  , I seem to be becoming an arab convert! |
| Kharidian |
Posted - 15 Aug 2011 : 11:34:40 AM
Originally posted by totallysmitten
Thank you. Unfortunately they are too far away to do the string test, but doing it on a photograph I find that she is going to shrink!! Her mother and the older sibling have very long legs as adults (big sis was by a different stallion but they were a similar height and she looks to be 14.3 as a 3 yr old).
LOL, "going to shrink" - that's a new one!
Caryn |
| totallysmitten |
Posted - 15 Aug 2011 : 11:28:45 AM
Thank you. Unfortunately they are too far away to do the string test, but doing it on a photograph I find that she is going to shrink!! Her mother and the older sibling have very long legs as adults (big sis was by a different stallion but they were a similar height and she looks to be 14.3 as a 3 yr old).
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| Kharidian |
Posted - 15 Aug 2011 : 11:17:20 AM
Hello, I don't think the weight will be an issue! There have been several threads on AL about how to work out how much more a horse will grow but, to summarise:
Once a horse is over 18 months old the growth plates in the legs have fused so the legs will not grow longer. Take a piece of baler-twine/lead rope etc, put one end on the ergot on a foreleg, and also hold the string at the point of the elbow. Then, keeping the string at the elbow, pivot the string (ergot end) to a point above the withers, leaning over the curve of the shoulder. If the string is 2 inches higher than the wither, the horse will grow 2 inches.....etc.
This should work for every horse unless it has been fed very poorly as a youngster.
I think you're probably right with anticipating around 14.3hh as vshe is 14.0hh now.
Caryn |
| LYNDILOU |
Posted - 15 Aug 2011 : 11:08:27 AM
yes , remember Arab horses carried MEN into battle for hours at a time and smaller than your horse , but then thats Pure breds I dont know what crossing them does to their weight carrying abilities . 10 stones is not heavy . |
