I, for one, would certainly NOT agree. A hand is already well defined and unambiguous. Having two significantly different definitions (total ambiguity of about 2.5 cm for a typical hunter/jumper is significant) would create exactly the sort of ambiguous situation that the metric system is supposed to be fixing.
Fifty or a hundred years in the future, when the last inches rulers and tape measures are collectable antiques and only historians remember how many inches are in a foot, horse owners will probably measure their horses in cm. John On Tuesday 30 September 2003 18:13, Bill Potts wrote: > For a growing horse, accuracy is not essential. One could agree that a hand > is 4 inches or 10 centimeters. > > However, there's some very good stuff on the subject at > http://www.gov.on.ca/OMAFRA/english/livestock/horses/facts/info_hands.htm. > Note that it's a Canadian web site.
