[Casey76]

My "baby" pony, is now almost three years old.  He is showing no signs of slowing down in the growing department, and has already surpassed his projected adult height - and he still has up to another three years of growing to do!



Since he is still growing so fast I've been taking his training very slowly, but he has had a saddle on now, and now that we have an enclosed school again, I plan to introduce him to long reining over the summer, and get his obedience to voice commands firmed up.

Tartine is really settling down, at last, and although the plan was to get her out and about this summer, I'm having a bit of a crisis of confidence, unfortunately, so we are just playing around in the school at the moment, while I have a couple of friends who are hacking her and doing lots of gallopy-fun stuff

[Debz]

Two beautiful animals there.  Love the high shine coat.

[Yorkie]

Lovely looking beasts.  I hadn't realised horses took such a long time to reach maturity size-wise.

[evie2]

What beauties and look at the length of their tails

[Casey76]

Their tails do just keep on growing.  Every three months or so I keep lopping a few inches off, otherwise it would just grow until they stand on it.

It is oftem bemoaned by other people at the stables whose horse don't have much tail, or a very slow growing tail!

Yorkie, the rate at which they grow tends to vary breed to breed.  The racing TB tend to reach adult height very early, then mainly fill out as they mature.  But the skeletal structure isn't fully mature until they are 8, starting with the bottom bones in their feet and legs which mature in the first fow months, to the vertebrae which are last to mature.

I'm sincerely hoping that Blitz is just about adult height now, but he does have the porential to grow up to another 3 inches, if I can believe the string test I did a few weeks ago.  Then I'll be looking into investing in a parachute!