Hands high in other countries?

[froghorse]

In the United States I know we measure horses in hands high. But when I was looking at horses at ehorses, there was this one horse that said 14.57 hh. How does this work? I can't find anything online that explains it.

 

[carthorse]

I'd guess it was a typing mistake. If not then someone who didn't know what they were talking about and trying to sound clever, there are a lot of them around.

 

[Jessey]

It is possibly that they put in a CM measurement to a hh box on a form, lots of Europe measure horses in metric (cm) now.

 

[newforest]

I think cms make the horses sound smaller.
I guess it's what your used to or what you grasp.

 

[Jessey]

I think cms make the horses sound smaller.
I guess it's what your used to or what you grasp.

I struggle to translate it, cms is still alien to me around horses, makes perfect sense and I can picture it for anything else

 

[newforest]

I struggle to translate it, cms is still alien to me around horses, makes perfect sense and I can picture it for anything else

I still measure jumps in feet and inches.
How many cms the cob jumps sounds too dainty for her.