Re: RC: Height in FEI Horses

[Trailrite@aol.com]

In a message dated 11/11/99 8:43:45 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
helgeson@lansford.ndak.net writes:

<< Why would you NOT want to see a 6' 200+ rider on a 14.2 horse?
 Could someone
 please tell me why that would be bad? Why do people think that
 taller horses
 can carry more weight? I would really like to see some answers
 on this!
 
 Lynette >>

    As you didn't notice, I said in the start of my response, My Husband 
rides a 15 hand horse.  I never said taller is better.
    To answer your question, its been known that the best overall performance 
level for a horse to carry weight is between 20 - 25% of their own weight.  i 
think my husbands horse carries 28%.  This was discussed before about last 
week.  Its not my calculations, but when I sell a horse to someone, I try to 
match a horse and rider.  I do this because I try to help people get started 
with as little against them as possible.  That includes the weight carrying 
levels.  Since I deal with beginners or people wanting to due better in 
endurance, for what ever reason.  This is what I try to go by.  Don't think I 
don't know that there are some smaller horses out there doing mile after mile 
at the top of the lists.  I do, and I believe in them!  I've been in 
endurance long enough to know that, and have followed & rode small horses.  
My Babson mare I rode starting in 1977 (which I still have) is 14.2.
Tammy


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