Cotton Rope Girth

[Flowerofthefen]

We used them at a riding school I was at years ago. The new ones seem a lot wider and much better quality!!

 

[Pippity]

I was a Pony Club kid in the 1970's and can well remember the nylon girths we used to have back then. Who wouldn't remember 'em. I had a bright royal blue one; still have it in my tackroom (somewhere). It has to be an antique.

Awful things; they used to get all bunched up and must've been intensely uncomfortable to our poor long-suffering horses. I remember too how there was always one end of them which would start coming undone, and then you'd have to mend it!

We all thought the darn things had died a death hadn't we; now lo & behold they've been resurrected again.

Can't say I'm ever gonna be a fan of these.

I've tried such a wide variety of girths on my fat little cob, and she definitely likes the string girth the best. (I've got one Stubben one and a couple of the Townfields ones. I can't tell which is which at this stage.)