Exmoor Pony Height
You know, I understand the height limitations for in-hand jumping and I haven't been training my EPs for that, but I have seen them in competition for that. Especially because, as ponies, they can't exactly carry a fully-grown person. Insofar I've only seen them as cart horses, children's riding horses, and in-hand jumping horses. So I'm a bit curious as to whether or not in-hand jumping requirements will be tweaked to any horse that couldn't be ridden by an average adult (most pony breeds, except those that are technically horses like Chincoteague and Icelandic)? Or are we hiring really tiny jockeys to ride these ponies into show jumping competitions? XD
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Joined: Mon Sep 01, 2014 4:41 pm Posts: 630 Re: Exmoor Pony Height
An average sized adult woman can comfortably ride a pony as short as 13hh. I used to school a large pony who was maybe 12.2hh? And a smaller POA. I was 16, 5'4", 125lbs. Neither were very light ponies, but they were certainly ponies.
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In New Zealand they have a (kinda weird) law where ponies cannot be ridden in competition by any person older than 17 years of age. Not really relevant but an interesting fact in regards to adults being able to compete in ponies.
I breed my Kaimanawa ponies to be no taller than 13.3hh ideally and i compete solely in hunter. I just run under the assumption that they would be entered in a youth division and ridden by a minor. Most of the ridden competitions on here (not all, of course, but some) would have a youth/pony division offered IRL anyway.
The place I go to take lessons takes riding students as young as 3 and I've seen 5-6 year olds jumping close to a metre in hunter comps over here on tiny wee ponies. Crazy little tots, lol.
I breed my Kaimanawa ponies to be no taller than 13.3hh ideally and i compete solely in hunter. I just run under the assumption that they would be entered in a youth division and ridden by a minor. Most of the ridden competitions on here (not all, of course, but some) would have a youth/pony division offered IRL anyway.
The place I go to take lessons takes riding students as young as 3 and I've seen 5-6 year olds jumping close to a metre in hunter comps over here on tiny wee ponies. Crazy little tots, lol.
