Ah, well in addition to using a unique unit, you also measure a horse in a unique way. You measure up to the “withers”, which is sorta kinda the highest point of the shoulders. So you get all of the neck and head on top of that 1.35m. measuring the top of a horses head is really very hard, because they tend not to cooperate if you tell them to stand up, and traditionally it’s not a usefull number for pulling a wagon or riding.
Regardless, that is still small for a horse. An average modern riding horse for an adult is usually something like 1.55 at the withers, or ~15 hands.
An actually big horse, like a Clydesdale, can easily be 1.8m at the withers, and then there’s an absolutely massive neck and head on top of that.
1.35m seems really small for a horse, I’m tall and most horses I see come up to my head or shoulders at around 1.8m
Ah, well in addition to using a unique unit, you also measure a horse in a unique way. You measure up to the “withers”, which is sorta kinda the highest point of the shoulders. So you get all of the neck and head on top of that 1.35m. measuring the top of a horses head is really very hard, because they tend not to cooperate if you tell them to stand up, and traditionally it’s not a usefull number for pulling a wagon or riding.
Regardless, that is still small for a horse. An average modern riding horse for an adult is usually something like 1.55 at the withers, or ~15 hands.
An actually big horse, like a Clydesdale, can easily be 1.8m at the withers, and then there’s an absolutely massive neck and head on top of that.