Hony-Pony sizing question

[mvp]

For you Pony and Hony people:

If horse’s cannon bones are short enough to take 12" cottons, do I go down to 9’ standing wraps and polos rather than the regular horse-sized 12-footers?

Thank you for your help. I’ve never had a horse this small before.

[Indy]

I use 12" quilts for my mare’s front legs and regular horse-sized standing wraps on top of them. I have used shorter ones in a pinch, but I find that they just barely cover the quilt. I can make them work, but I’d rather just have to wind the regular sized wraps around an extra few times. I’m sure if I wrapped more often I could get precise with the shorter wraps and know exactly where to start them on her leg to make them work but I’m so used to the longer ones with her that it’s not worth the bother.

I don’t use polos with her so I can’t comment on that.

[pattnic]

I still just use horse-size standing wraps, polos, and flannels. But my horses also have fairly substantial cannons, even though they are short. I think if you have a more delicately-built beast, you would probably go down in length.

[Highflyer]

My 15 hand chunky TB can wear horse sizes, the 14.3, more delicately built Paint mare can’t. Their legs are the same length but the width changes things.

[mvp]

So the 9-foot wraps really are for small and medium ponies, I take it? Officially?

If so, thank you for saving me some money. Good to know there’s some bit of my pre-existing horse wardrobe this new little mare can wear.

[Indy]

@mvp;7967256

So the 9-foot wraps really are for small and medium ponies, I take it? Officially?

I think they are. They are nice on the little guys because you don’t have to keep wrapping around for-e-ver. But unless your new horse has super duper skinny legs I wouldn’t waste money buying new wraps just for her.

[Highflyer]

Well, not to be white trash, but you can always cut a couple of feet off bandages/polos if you have to anyway. That’s a cheap fix.

Says the person who went from one 16.1 horse to a 15 hander and a 17 hander aND has made 90% of it work for several years.

[One_Two_Three]

I use 9’ standing wraps on my 14.1 that takes 12" no bows in back and 9" in front. Never have a problem…

[caradino]

I have a 14.1 GRP that wears 12" in front and 14" in the back, BUT I use pony standing wraps on top - a lot less bulky once you figure out how to wrap with them.

Here’s a fun trick for normal-sized polo wraps on the large ponies/honies: wrap the front legs so you have a flap running down the back of the leg, then hold that in place nice and flat and wrap over it as usual. The back legs are usually big enough to wrap normally. If this is confusing, I can try to take pictures and post them later!

[Wonders12]

[QUOTE=Highflyer;7967329]
Well, not to be white trash, but you can always cut a couple of feet off bandages/polos if you have to anyway. That’s a cheap fix. [/QUOTE]

:lol: I was also going to suggest this. But I would call it “resourceful” instead.

[mvp]

[QUOTE=Highflyer;7967329]
Well, not to be white trash, but you can always cut a couple of feet off bandages/polos if you have to anyway. That’s a cheap fix.

Says the person who went from one 16.1 horse to a 15 hander and a 17 hander aND has made 90% of it work for several years.[/QUOTE]

I’ll have you know that just as I was scrolling down to your post, I thought of that-- custom cutting my own wraps down to some length below 12’.

I didn’t think of that as clever or super custom in a high style, Clothes Horse wardrobe sense. I thought “How redneck, and yet it would rock. I’d have exactly what I wanted.”

[mvp]

[QUOTE=caradino;7972985]

Here’s a fun trick for normal-sized polo wraps on the large ponies/honies: wrap the front legs so you have a flap running down the back of the leg, then hold that in place nice and flat and wrap over it as usual. The back legs are usually big enough to wrap normally. If this is confusing, I can try to take pictures and post them later![/QUOTE]

That is a fun trick! Back in the day, I saw someone really old do this with polo wraps. It seems smart and old skool, given the protection job you were trying to do with polos. I never mastered it. But I’d feel completely bad-ass now if I started doing it on this little mare. You know, as I become an old lady, I have to search for ways to retain my relevance. The old lady who I saw use this technique when I was a kid was perhaps doing the same thing.

[Highflyer]

[QUOTE=mvp;7973112]
That is a fun trick! Back in the day, I saw someone really old do this with polo wraps. It seems smart and old skool, given the protection job you were trying to do with polos. I never mastered it. But I’d feel completely bad-ass now if I started doing it on this little mare. You know, as I become an old lady, I have to search for ways to retain my relevance. The old lady who I saw use this technique when I was a kid was perhaps doing the same thing.[/QUOTE]

This is how I was taught to do them for polo/ polocrosse. It protects the tendon.

[lifeishorsesarelove]

Now I want to learn how to do polos this special way!

I have all horse size stuff and just leased out a 14.1 Quarter pony and none of my wraps boots etc fit him. So annoying.

(I do have a friend who wraps her big tall 16hh+ TB in pony polos. No idea how, but she hates using the longer wraps and says they’re too bulky.)