I have a 15.2 hand ballerina light-boned, small footed mare and every place I tried to order from was out of the mediums so I went to small. I think medium would be better for her hinds but the smalls are working. They come right up to her knee in front and yes, her feet look better already hthey were chipping badly).
Susan
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I bought mediums for my 14.3 grade mare–she walked right out of them. Thankfully I had bought orange ones, so they were easy to find out in the pasture. Bought size large for my 15.3 Appendix (takes a large in bell boots and and sport boots); he dropped one, but otherwise has kept them on. IMO, they run on the large side.
Most of the horses in my barn that are the size of yours wear large. My guy is slightly smaller and he might do with a medium (I haven’t ordered yet), but a large still wouldn’t slip down over his foot at all. I am mostly interested in a little less height at least for the front legs.
Thanks very much each of you… You’ve made me brave enough and informed enough to order some!
Just for giggles I went and measured my four horses. They are all thoroughbred and 16 hands ish.
Mare in mediums now is 14" in front and 13.75" behind. She is built thick but with wee little feet and light in bone. Mediums look to fit her well.
Next one is 14" both front and behind. She’s lighter than mare one but still pretty solid. Has better feet and bone.
Next one is 14.5" in front and behind. Lean, narrow gelding but pretty solid feet and decent bone.
And the big girl–15.25" in front and behind. Very solid horse with big platter feet.
@alfonsina I just can’t imagine your horse, which is taller than anything I have, measures so small around the coronary.
Go for the large. My 16.2 TB with good bone wears large and they are definitely not too big. I remember at the time when I measured him before ordering that according to the sizing chart, he was too big for the large! There’s no way this horse takes an XL/draft size so large it was.
I would think medium would be ok for your horse. There is plenty of wiggle room as these boots velcro closed. Or…buy them from a retailer in both sizes and return the ones that don’t fit (as long as they are very clean and only use 1 boot to try on for size).
my 17.1 h TB wears a medium. by the way, they are terrific!!!
I ordered the xtra large I believe. They are way too big and slide down and get stepped on. The mares fetlock is about 11 inches circumference. She is a chunky WB but does not have the bone of the old style WB’s. You would have to have a huge horse to fit the xtra large. I bet a medium would have been the correct size for her.
My 16 h tb wears a medium. Plenty of room.
my tb is in a large
the mini ones run very small, bigger horse a little more true to size- but the fit is very flexible, especially if you get ones that are a little large- they still stay on and work
I tried the mediums on the rest of my herd (coronary measurements above) and will be buying larges for all of them. Mediums would work, but I’ll have better Velcro overlap with the large. Glad the fine boned mare is in medium, though.
I don’t recommend an Xtra large unless you have a draft. I don’t know what I was thinking when I ordered that size.
Maybe they were large? I don’t see a size on them so I ASSumed they were xtra large. My memory is not good enough to remember what I ordered. Maybe I can find the online receipt. Anyway they are HUGE on her ( i have to put them on upside down to be able to fasten them at the bottom) and she is a 16.2 hand warmblood. Bigger boned than a TB but nothing like a old style warm blood or draft. Now my curiosity is piqued and I am going to look for the receipt. HMMMMMM
Simke you are correct. they are 15" L on my receipt which I ASSume is large. I should have bought medium. I don’t know why I didn’t just look up the receipt instead of relying on my memory. Duh!!!
But they’re bigger at the top, by quite a lot 😠Do you maybe have them upside down? I can see how you could mistake them for a draft size if so, they’re very wide on that end!
I tried them both ways but the only way to get them to stay on is to put the smaller end at the bottom. The velcro on the sides doesn’t fit very well and the tops, like you say. are huge. They are very loose on the legs because the closures are for much thicker legs. I thought I was using them upside down because of the shape but that was the only way that they would stay on. But they still don’t stay on that well. Fortunately they are hot pink so I can find them in the pasture.
Yes, the smaller end is supposed to go on the bottom 
they’re supposed to fit very loose around the leg, and sit around the coronary band.
Here’s a pic. They’re not supposed to fit tight to the leg. 
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