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Two Measures of Scale. The size of a miniature, relative to what it is a replica of, is known as the scale of the figure. For no particularly good reason, two different systems are used to rate scale. Some scales are given as a ratio, variously written as either a ratio (i.e., 1:300 or 1.300) or a fraction (i.e., 1/300).
Only horses that stayed small - no more than 34 inches by the time they were five years old - were allowed to be called miniatures. At first, any horse small enough could be registered as a miniature horse. But as more and more minis looked better and better, things changed.