Ridecamp: Re: [RC] The Arabian Breed; how *big* is BIG?

There is a VERY rational explanation, Susan
Your patient might have been using the ARABIAN measuring stick. So many 
Arabian owners do that NO ONE believed that Halynov was 16.2 until they 
saw him for themselves!
Funny thing... I told Jeff Wonnell that he was 16.1 hands before he saw 
him and then Jeff called me after he had him for a week. He called me a 
liar--- said he wasn't 16.1! I told him I'd stuck him MANY times to 
which he replied-- "He's 16.2!" I replied that he didn't believe me at 
16.1 so why should I tell anyone he was 16.2! He retorted "Nobody is 
going to believe you at 16.1 either so you might as well tell the truth 
and then people will figure he's 15.3 or so!!" :-)
IF the gelding IS an honest 17h, I'd like to know who his sire is. I've 
always been told that Halynov was the tallest Arabian in the world, and 
there might be 2 others that matched his height (but I was told that 
they were not as typey).
If he was a mutant, I wonder what this gelding must be??!! ;-)
Bette
Susan Young Casey wrote:

> --- Christine McLaughlin <duchessofdirt@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > Other Arab people (I admit...they mostly show
> > Arabs) think my little lady is a nothing because she
> > is small...so, it never dawned on me that anyone
> > pointed a finger at BIG arabs! 
>
> I've got a patient who told me of a registered pure
> Arabian gelding she sold to an elderly gentleman. The
> horse grew too big for the man and he may want to sell
> him.
>
> "How big is he now?" asks I.
>
> "17 hands" says she!
>
> 17 HANDS!!!!!  Is that possible?
>
> "How much do you think he'll want for him?" I querred.
>
> "I'd imagine around $300 or $400."
>
> !!!!!!!
>
> I checked her chart to see what meds she was on!
>
> I'll let you know how this comes out.  I'm just
> curious if any of you have ever seen or known of a 17
> hand pure Arab.
>
> =====
> Susan Young Casey, Princess of Pink, LIW, RRHA, RHS
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>
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--
Bette Lamore
Whispering Oaks Arabians
Home of 16.2h TLA Halynov
who lives on through his legacy
Hal's Riverdance!
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