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A Hand when referring the the height of horses is 4 inches, so a 15 hand horse is 60 inches or 5 feet tall at the withers. 4 inches is 10.16 centimeters. You measure from the ground to the point of the horse or pony's withers. (The point of the withers is commonly defined as the last hair on the neck at the shoulders) There is a unit called hands which is especially for measuring horses. Each hand is 4 inches.

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