[RC] Help!!! Horse not growing!!! - LaFollett, Megan
I rode my 12.1 Welsh pony on 4-5+ hr.
trail rides until I was 18 years old, and I was 5’5 and about 130 for the
last few years I rode him (also, we were the same age). Every year I thought he
wasn’t going to be able to handle my weight, so I’d start out at a
really cautious walk to see how he was doing…5 minutes down the trail and
off he’d run at a hundred miles an hour as if he wasn’t carrying a
thing. When we were 17, we rode from our house to the towers on GoatMountain
outside of Colton, OR, and back (about a 10 hr ride). I only
stopped riding him when he started having occasional seizures at age 19, and he
romped around the pasture for the last few years of his life. I imagine that
your filly will be able to handle your weight just fine. Also, my ¾ Arab
gelding didn’t really stop growing until he was 4 or 5, so I
wouldn’t worry.
~Megan
Claire Nystrom
<claire.nystrom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a 2 y. 9 mo. Arab filly that measures 13.2 3/4 and is extremely
fine boned. I used the weight tape to guess what she weighs and she
measures in at 600 lbs. and has 6 in. cannon bones. She is
well-proportioned and isn't too thin-- she's just tiny. She also has
very small feet that really haven't gotten bigger. I did notice that
her ribcage grew some and her bones did fill out a bit over the summer
and the fall, but I'm worried she's just going to be too small for me.
I'm 5'3", 110, but am worried that I am still too large for her. I
was planning on using her for trail/endurance but I'm afraid she's
going to be too small-boned to hold up to the task. I know horses
vary tremendously-- but she needs to have a serious growth spurt for
me to be able to ride her (perfect size horse for me is my mustang/tb
mare- 14.2, 875 lbs. and medium amount of bone). Just wanted to know
if any of you more experienced endurance and Arab people on the list
think she might get big enough.
Additionally, her mom is pure Russian (14.3) and father is
Egyptian/crabbet and I was told was 15.2 but I've never seen him.
Thanks,
Carol
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