Huge houses = huge horses?

Now, I wouldn't really know, as this is the world as I know it. But mom and dad claim that the play horses in Sweden are substantially smaller than the ones you find here. I guess that might be a good thing, 'cos this one, at Laya's house, was very tricky to get down from (in one piece) and absolutely impossible to mount without first climbing some of the furniture that you weren't supposed to climb.