Re: RC: Now Cannons was Belesemo

[CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com]

In a message dated 1/30/00 2:05:55 PM Pacific Standard Time, Merryben@aol.com 
writes:

<< I once measured all the horses in my pasture and the only ones who had 
over 
 8" cannons were the mules and the appy.  However, just for fun I measured my 
 new horse.  He is 14.1 and has 7 3/4" cannons.  We will see how he 
does.....mb >>

Once again, you can't correlate cannon circumference to height, but rather to 
weight.  Still, I'd suspect that your 14:1 horse likely did not weigh over 
850 or 900# (unless it's REALLY a tiny brick outhouse!) and so likely had 
very adequate (or even ample) bone for his size.  But that is the perfect 
example of how often folks can "slam" a horse for not having "8" of bone" 
when indeed, this horse likely has better bone than an 1150# horse at 15:3 hh 
that has 8-1/2" which really isn't enough!

Heidi