Re: [Fwd: RC: Research at rides]

["Duncan Fletcher" <dfletche@gte.net>]

For the sake of those not confortable with conversions.

Duncan Fletcher
dfletche@gte.net


----- Original Message -----
From: Wolfgang Schwingenheuer <wsabg@t-online.de>
> Hi Bette,
>
> last October I met a real horseman from Poland, Jerzy Urbanski, at an
> international CEI here in Germany. Jerzy is one of those people in Poland
who
> knows nearly everything about the horses bred there. I asked him about two
horses
> offered to me, both purebred polish arabs. One is a small arab gelding
with 147 cm
> (hey, what's that in "hands", "feet" or "inches"???), good confirmation
but, as I
14h2in
> thought, a bit to small for me (180 cm, 75 kg - lot of hands and some
feet, some
5' 11''  165 lb

> stones, too and ounces <bg>).The other horse is a arab mare, 153 cm and
"more
15 h

> horse" (you know what I mean). I prefered the mare, but Jerzy told me that
the
> gelding could be better because he is smaller (?!?!). Jerzy said that they
often
> see problems in bigger arabs caused by the legs. We didn't go deeper into
that
> discussion but maybe some of our RC-breeders can say a word to this.
>
> Wolfgang + Ninja 11 (pure polish anglo-arab with  height of 158 cm)
15h 2in

> Germany
>
>