i have a new forest yearling who is a partbred
his sire is portmore tempest and his dam a forest run mare
he will be 2 years old in october
at the moment he is 13.2hh at his withers and 13.3hh at his backend
what height do you think he will make
also do you know why he is a partbed when both of his parents are new forests
he was also gelded at 5 months old and we have been told by people when they are gelded at such a young age they grow a bit bigger than normal

My reg NF yearling is 16 months old now, he is 13.2 and a half at the withers and just short of 14.0hh at the bum. I would expect him to be between 14.1 and 14.2hh when mature.

Tempest was running Dur Hill on the last turn around so he was covering Thorney Hill mares. Many of these are vanner ponies and therefore have coloured ancestors even if the pony you have is a single colour. One of my friends bought a bay roan in good faith who turned out to be coloured in ancestory and is therefore registered as part bred. She is turning out very well and is now under saddle and competing in part bred classes. Your yearling should make a very nice performance pony even though it isn't full bred. My daughter points out that an alternative reason could be that somewhere in the dams ancesory the foal papers were lost and a generation went unrecorded. This happens periodically and in particular during the second world war many ponies were registered without names just by numbers because the commoners were in the forces same as everyone else, so a 'missed' generation can go back a long way.