There are four inches in a hand if you are talking about the height of a horse.
Assuming you mean in the height of a horse, there are 4 inches in a hand.
Height for horses and ponies is measured in hands at the withers, or shoulder blade of the horse. A hand is equal to four inches. You can buy measuring devices, but yardsticks work just as well.
the measure of a horse in four inches is a hand. So, one hand equals four inches.
One horse hand is equivalent to 4 inches. It is a unit of measurement commonly used to determine the height of horses.
To determine the height of a horse you measure from the top of its withers to the ground. You use the term hands to tell what its height is. (A hand is 4 inches.)
A "hand" is the measurement used to determine height of the horse and equals 4 inches.
The height of a horse is measured up to its withers (where the back and neck meet). Horses are measured in hands, one hand being 4 inches.
In horse height, 153 cm is equivalent to approximately 15.1 hands. Horses are commonly measured in hands, with one hand equal to 4 inches. Therefore, to convert centimeters to hands, you can divide the height in centimeters by 10.16 (as 1 hand is 10.16 cm).
A horse's height is typically measured in hands. One hand is equal to 4 inches. To measure a horse's height, start at the ground and measure to the highest point of the withers, which is the ridge between the horse's shoulder blades.
One hand is 4 inches, more or less. A hand is an old measure- the width of a hand - used mostly, I think, for measuring the height of horses. One could move up horse hand by hand and count how many hands tall the horse is.
Well, seeing as there are 4 inches in a hand a 16 hand horse would be 64 inches or 5 feet and 4 inches.