A blast from the past - Greenham NZ rugs catalogue and price list

Ye gods the prices! 😯 I remember fiddling about with the spider strap on a Chaskit worn by a smallish pony and hoping to not get stood on! Polywarm duvet rugs, and Ponywarm for the little 'uns.

And then Horseware brought out the Rambo and the canvas rugs started to vanish. Yay!!
 
My mare had the flax model. When it rained it would become solid and very difficult to hang to dry out. In those days you had field rugs and stable rugs for night time so no one would have dreamt of leaving it on over night to dry out on the horse. They were great rugs.
 
Spotherisk said:
Yes a spider, with heavyweight brass clips. The neck cover was elasticated from behind the ears, reached down to the knees and the middle of the back!
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Masta also did a self-righting canvas NZ, olive green, wool half lining, leg straps with very heavy brass clips - I took out a light bulb flinging one one, had to evacuate the stable searching for shards of glass….
 
paddy555 said:
my ambition was a Kiwi. My friend at work had one for her horse but I couldn't afford one. There was another make as well I can't remember the name. They were green with a dark brown brushed nylon lining. I was doing someone's hunters at the time and hated them as the brushed nylon caught my finer nails.
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Was it Empston or something like that you were thinking of? I remember them but couldn't afford one at the time so just had the grren canvas with the grey army blanket inside and an attached surcingle. They rubbed everything on the shoulders. Im going back to the 50's and 60's here though!
 
Tiddlypom said:
And here being modelled by my two TB/sec Ds.

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That chestnut fellow below has quite the model look. A casual 'oh, you there...' and soon he will turn on his hindleg and strut the other way.

I always used to read about 'New Zealand rugs'. But here, there's no such thing as far as I know. There was a choice of two styles, both in canvas, and you could either have the one with the leg straps that went betyween the hindlegs OR the one with the Y fastening. I always chose the one with the Y fastening as I was told that they were nicer for the horse. (I believed this too, and still do. Not keen on straps in and around the hindlegs.)

Would you believe, I've never bought any of these new-fangled nylon rugs that are everywhere these days. Any horse I owned was usually naked.
 
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