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Avenue that a police officer could “get very old waiting for a chance to get into the mounted division.”
Special skills
In the same vein, it takes a very special horse to make the cut. Just the thought of riding one of the well-bred, often high-strung ‘chasers down Connecticut or across DuPont Circle after recalling how they leaped and plunged at the start of their races might cause a double take when watching the very same horse pose placidly for tourists on the mall one minute and chase down a perpetrator on Massachusetts Avenue the next.
One requirement of a police horse is size. Most officers want and need their horses to stand 16.3 hands or more. There is a minimum height requirement of 15.2 hands high. Some officers are quite tall, and they say the people on foot and in cars respect a large animal more readily than the smaller, more compact “hurdle” types.
Like all types of organized riding, it takes concentrated training to make a racehorse into a police horse. Lots of training. Program horses have to pass a series of tests following up to 60 days of pre-work
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