How To Register Your American Miniature Horse from the AMHA | Page 38

HOW TO MEASURE YOUR HORSE
The AMHA is first and foremost a height registry. Accurate measurement of horse's is critical. No horse is eligible
for registration with the AMHA if it exceeds 34 inches in height. There are additional height requirements for
show purposes that will be discussed later in this article.
Before you start to panic, let us explain how AMHA horse's are measured. We are not referring to the horse's
height from the ground to the top of their head. It is a little more specific than that. Miniatures are not measured
like other pony and horse breeds do at the highest point of the withers. AMHA horses are measured at the last
hairs of the mane.
If a horse exceeds 34 inches in height it is no longer eligible to be registered with the AMHA.
The following is the AMHA Rule Book's instructions on how horse's must be measured:
GR-020 HEIGHT VERIFICATION
A. No Miniature Horse shall exceed 34 inches in height.
Weanlings must not exceed 30 inches.
Yearlings must not exceed 32 inches.
Two-year-olds must not exceed 33 inches.
The show age of the horse is determined from
January 1 preceding its birthday.
B. Horse’s height must be verified on a hard, level
surface, preferably concrete or paved, in a public
place, by a show official and witnessed by a member
sponsoring the show. No person with horses being
shown competing in the show may be a measuring
official at the show.
The measuring device used to measure the first
horse must be used to measure all the horses. A
standard measurement stick is a straight, stiff,
unbendable stick (metal) that is equipped with a
bullseye, plumb bob or a spirit level to make sure that
the standard is perpendicular to the ground and that
the cross piece or arm is parallel with the ground
surface.

Make sure that the horse is standing square
Front Legs - parallel with the measuring device
Rear legs - in a vertical line with the horse's Buttocks

Keep measuring stick straight. Measure at the last
hairs of the actual mane hair, not the long body hair.