![]() Normal "flat" (not padded, correctional, or stacked) shoes typically add about an inch in height and, in most show associations in the US, ponies are allowed to be measured (or "sticked") as high as 14.3 1/2 on show day without shoes. Ponies showing in Large Pony USEF divisions are notorious for actually being horses by height definition-many owners file the horse's hooves down as low as possible without injuring the frog so they can reach 14.2hh for their official measuring and their permanent pony card.Allow up to a hand of error due to differences in stance or interpretation of the height of withers. ![]() Do not be alarmed if a horse is advertised as 16.1 using this method and you measure them at 16.3. ![]() It is perfectly normal for a horse to vary between 1-2 inches depending on when they are measured and horses (particularly large Warmblood and Draft breeds) may continue growing as old as 5 or 6 years of age.For more information and a better explanation, see this link. Fourteen and a half hands is not 14.5, but 14.2hh. Since there are four inches in each hand, the decimal places only go up to three. The way we display hands when referring to horses is a hands.inches format. ![]()
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