When asking the question, "how much weight can a horse carry?"
you often hear a response similar to "it depends on the breed of
the horse, its conditioning and conformation, how far and how
long you will be traveling, the horse's bone structure, the type
of weight the horse will carry (for example live [rider] or dead
weight [gear]), weight distribution" and so on. So with this
sound advice from your fellow horsemen, surely you now have a
much better idea of how much weight your horse can carry. No? Of
course not. Though your colleagues are correct in stating all
the above factors, you are still left in the dark without any
guideline on how much weight a horse can carry. Can my horse
only carry 80 pounds, or is he capable of carrying 300 pounds?
Fortunately some very smart horsemen over the years have come up
with a few methods for us to calculate a starting point to help
determine how much weight a horse can carry. One very simple
guide is to take the horse's weight and divide by six to give
you the total we