[martin_fierro]

stands 6 feet, 5 inches from his hoofs to the top of his withers.

I beg your pardon...?

[Stoat]

stands 6 feet, 5 inches from his hoofs to the top of his withers.

I beg your pardon...?

with·ers [wíərz]

plural noun

highest part of horse’s back: the ridge between the shoulder bones of a horse, sheep, ox, or similar four-legged animal, forming the highest part of its back

  [Early 16th century. Origin uncertain: probably ultimately from Old English wiþer “against.”]

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stands 6 feet, 5 inches from his hoofs to the top of his withers.

I beg your pardon...?

[Americanchild]

stands 6 feet, 5 inches from his hoofs to the top of his withers. I beg your pardon...?

The withers are the shoulders on a horse. It's that high point on the back that the front of the saddle sits on.

The hoofs are those hard things on the ends of their feet......sorry FRiend! I couldn't resist!

[mikrofon]

Quite a perch Ms. Fish has atop that steed.

(That's not a draft horse, that's a jet-stream horse ;)