Re: RC: Re: Re: Re: Horse height ads

[Mickie Newnam <akela@peoplepc.com>]

I had the opposite happen.  I had used a stick on my gelding and came up
with 14.3, then took him to a ride where they were collecting data and
he sticked at 15.0 (which is what I had thought he was).  I think I had
the stick in the wrong spot on the withers, to be honest.  One of these
days I need to do it again, just out of curiousity.
Not that it matters, except that if he's 14.3, my next horse had better
be about 14.0...  I'm 5"4" if I really try and getting on is harder and
harder.
My friend's gelding, who she has used a stick on and he is 16.1, they
said was shorter.  Where exactly on the withers do you put the part with
the level?  And is this why people who honestly do think they've done it
right (not just the ones who were lying to try to impress someone for
some reason) have problems?
Mickie

Susan Garlinghouse wrote:

>      I'm not even sure being measured with a stick will convince
>      some---since we started measuring horse height at research
>      rides, on hard, level ground, with a good stick, there's
>      always at least one person that will insist we don't need to
>      measure because their horse **is** such-and-such height.
>      When our stick says shorter (invariably), it must be that
>      "the stick is wrong" (it isn't).  The best is when we're
>      told the horse is "officially" 16-something.  We manage to
>      keep our faces straight until we get back into the
>      motorhome, then we all start rolling around laughing
>      hysterically. Susan G
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