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Horses are measured in hands?

November 17, 2022
By Jamie Paxton
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Way back in the day, they did not have standard measuring tools so people went by the king’s hand which was 4 inches wide. So today a horse is 15 hands tall equates to 5ft tall at the withers. Our horses range from Tango’s little self at 7.2 hands to Journey’s tall stance at 17 hands.


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