daughter who is 5’10" on her 14h even Morgan mare
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Lots of Morgan folks in here. Recently retired my 151/2hh wide, really wide Morgan. He rode big, presented big, I never felt like he was too small. (I’m a hair under 5’5" - not skinny, not fat…). Just bought a coming 4 y.o. Morgan mare. Sticks at 14.1hh right now. She’s not nearly as wide as the first, but has the same beautiful length of neck that will save her from feeling too small if she doesn’t grow. I think she’ll top out around 15hh, but if she doesn’t I think it will all be fine
This is very much like trying out a horse at a Morgan sales barn. Just about everything is going to be in draw reins for the first ride. I’m not a fan but that’s just how it is in those barns. I asked for no draw reins on Lola for our second ride, and they were fine with it.
Luckily she figured out how to carry herself without them pretty quickly.
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Oh yes, I’m familiar with that, too. Or the Morgans that showed up for our barn’s trail ride events in draw reins.
Thank you for these observations. If I go back for a second try, I will ask to see him go without the martingale.
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I really appreciate your comparison. I’d love to find the perfect 14.1 pony for me!
I can relate! I started riding at 11 and at 13-14 was the same height I am now but heavier. I wanted to be short enough and petite enough to ride those darling smalls that I missed out on as a kid. POAs are cool. 
I really appreciate everyone taking the time to reply. I was trying to reply to everyone at once last evening and this morning, and I kept getting a 403 error. Now I’m getting a message to “Consider replying to several posts at once.” LOL
Morgans are still cheap, the most we have paid for any was $5,000 in about 2000 It was for daughter’s buckskin that she paid for (she sold her competitive trail pony). She wanted the “color”. That horse sure knew he was better than any other. He would do anything for her.
Before daughter bought him he had been through several owners who were capitalizing on his color for resell.
The funny thing about him was once here he really took a while before he settled. I had to take him for a short trailer ride daily for over two weeks before he knew if he got on the trailer he was coming back Home. (His favorite place to visit was the doughnut shop who had a special extra large apple fritter made for him)
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I rode POAs until I aged out. When I started college at Virginia Intermont, my first classes were on a 17.1 TB. SO, this is just the counter to the short neck comments: my trainer used to scream at me to “get out of his face” but his head was SO FAR AWAY!!! 
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Well he’s not for sale but my homebred Section D Welsh Cob is the chillest, most non-forward guy. My goal was to make them ammy friendly and he is almost to a fault. I wish he had even 1/10 of the pizazz and ‘go’ that his sire or his dam did. There are some relatively quiet or more dead head types that exist. You just have to know where to go 
Feel free to point me in the right direction. 
It’s a challenge to find prospects near me in the northeast, though. So much of the breeding has moved west. I can’t afford a huge shipping bill on top of a new ride, so there’s that. I’m trying to be patient.
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Well I can vouch or a few prospects at a breeder’s farm in Colorado in that I’ve seen them in person; but, I’m guessing that’s too far out of your radius. If you’re in the North East then Morgans are likely your best bet. There is a section B breeder who also breeds GRP, British Riding Ponies and has had a few Morgan x Welsh crosses in the past located in New York. I’m not entirely sure what she might have at this time.
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What’s her name? While my next horse is still at least a few years away, I like to collect recommendations. I wanted my last two horse purchases to be GRPs and ended up with two 16.3 giants (I am only 5’4"), but I am DETERMINED to get a shorter horse next time!!!
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Yes, the shipping from Colorado is a killer, not to mention having to fly to test ride. I’d love to have the contact info for the New York breeder, though.
I come from the land of ponies and have been called the Pony Queen lol! My in laws have been breeding ponies for 50 years and if I purchased anything else, I would be disowned. I seem to collect ponies over the years and have 5 of them right now ranging from 13h to 15h (one is a warmblood x half welsh that I bred for myself).
I have ridden anything from 13h Section B’s to 13.2h Section C cobs to 15h overgrown BRP x Welsh. I’m 5’2" and love riding the ponies - I have started about 20 of them so far and have had a blast with all of them. The only thing I find with the mediums is that they can have a choppier stride and not a lot of neck. I prefer a longer neck in front of me, especially when jumping and training them to jump, so my fav size is 14h and up.
But if you have ridden the 13.2h pony and feel comfortable, there is 0 issues purchasing something that size! Enjoy your pony <3
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Your in laws sound like my kind of people.
I think you hit the nail on the head with
and I’m trying to decide if I can live with that. I am trying to find some rides on local to me ponies (not necessarily for sale ponies) to test that out. Thank you so much for your thoughts!
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It was really tough for me to admit to myself I was overhorsed, but I didn’t quite realize it until I was on something smaller. I was fortunate enough to find a lovely young university student who ended up loving him as much as I did, and she took over riding him until he unexpectedly passed away.
Good luck with your search 
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Having literally just finished horse shopping for my next Morgan I would disagree that Morgans are still cheap. I paid notably more for this one than I did in 2009 for my last. HOWEVER, this is important, I don’t think they should be cheap. From talking to breeders it costs about $12k to get them to riding age BEFORE they have been started. I don’t think breeders should sell horses at a loss so I think what I paid was quite reasonable for what I got, but she was $XX,XXX not $X,XXX.
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