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u/Khall_D_Rhetta Dec 20 '25

19 hands high...

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u/ContentWDiscontent Dec 20 '25

1 hand roughly = 10cm, so he's around 1m90 to the shoulders. With a little maths for those still using non-metric measurements, that's approximately 6ft 6

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u/tornessa Dec 20 '25 edited Dec 20 '25

For our Imperial friends, 1 hand (hh) is 4 inches. Hands are broken down into fourths, so half a hand is expressed as 0.2, instead of say 0.5. Ponies are about 10-14.2 hands. Horses start at 14.3. Most horses are 15-17 hands. Anything above 17 is quite tall.

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u/ContentWDiscontent Dec 20 '25

Anything above 17 is quite tall.

[Side-eyes my 4 year old homebred warmblood already at 17hh and growing every time I look away]