This message is from: "Jean Gayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Vivian, Those "giants" you speak of may not be what we call giants today. As I understand horses were small until the wearing of armor when they needed larger horses to carry the weight of the armor etc.. I have a bit, mouthpiece, from an armored horse and it measures 5 1/4 and it is not massively built. It would help to find someplace in history where the "giants" were measured in hands. I know one of the largest horses at 21 or 22 hands was alive during the 1890s, 1900. Jean Gayle -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, March 18, 1999 4:24 PM Subject: Re: Re:V98 #390 type
>This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Hi Joel, Thanks for responding. Do you know what the historical origins of the >big breeds are? I have only vague historical understanding of how they >evolved, but > It was my belief that the giant breeds evolved due to wartime
