Boy that's the truth!! I 
  am tall, so I look for taller horses. And I cant tell you how many thousands 
  of miles I have driven to look at 15.3 horses that were 14.3. ""Oh but we 
  measured him with a stick!!""  Fiddle sticks! Annie G.
  
   
   
  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