Cant show jumpers tack up properly

Yuletide_Gal said:
Can I be on team "if people gave a whole lot less of a damn about saddleclothes and a whole lot more of a damn about their riding, a whole lot more people would ride like top showjumpers"????

I'm not letting you near my stuff. But by the theory of this thread, I'm like a closet whitaker cousin :D :D :D
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Is THAt what this is all about????

Still... wouldn't choose to be a Whitaker.......
 
Well I AM disappointed. I spend my evening on the starzaan thread, watching olympia, and come in here to find NO mention of the final prizegiving, whereuppon the organisers clearly told the riders to wear christmas hats, rather than skull caps?!

Must say many didn't look too impressed with them though! :p
 
ladyt25 said:
Also, this thread seemed to start about saddlecloths being too short - well as far as I see the cloths themselves are thin cloths showing the sponsors name in most cases. Any padding are the half pads that do give the illusion of the cloth being shorter than it is.

I don't see how the cloths they have on really have any effect on the horse at allto be honest.
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Well, the saddlepads are usually about 1-2cm thick and lightly quilted, to give them some stiffness so that they don't pucker up under the saddle or under the rider's leg, and the edges often have braiding or piping (especially on the fancy Sponsors' ones), so if the saddle panels (and sheepskin half pad in many cases, these all looked long enough) sit right on the edge of the pad, with the rider's weight being transferred down over that ridge onto the spine, do you really not see that than could have any effect? It would make a pressure point, surely?

It wasn't an optical illusion, most of the saddlepads were fine, long enough, looked perfect, but some really weren't, they finished well short of the back of the saddle. teddyt wasn't the only one to notice this.
 
Naturally said:
Well I AM disappointed. I spend my evening on the starzaan thread, watching olympia, and come in here to find NO mention of the final prizegiving, whereuppon the organisers clearly told the riders to wear christmas hats, rather than skull caps?!

Must say many didn't look too impressed with them though! :p
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Yes, I saw that, and thought some of the riders looked very hacked off about it.
I can't believe the organisers couldn't have found big christmas hats, big enough to go around a riding hat, fgs. Loads of children watching, good example and all that jazz, quite apart from the safety angle.... we've seen huge dramas at prize givings before, I don't want to think about the lawsuit that would have resulted if someone had incurred a head injury after being told to take their hat off and put a stupid piece of fluffy red fleece on their head... ;) ;)
For once, I wish 'Elf and Safety had been there!
 
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