Curved girths......

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Can someone help me pls, its Sunday and my brain isnt working ;)!!

I've been looking at the curved/anatomically shaped girths that are recommended for horses with a forward girth. My numpty question is......Which way does the curve point on these, sense would say curve towards front legs so it the curves back away from elbows?

Please help ;) ;)!!!
 
Sneedy said:
Can someone help me pls, its Sunday and my brain isnt working ;)!!

I've been looking at the curved/anatomically shaped girths that are recommended for horses with a forward girth. My numpty question is......Which way does the curve point on these, sense would say curve towards front legs so it the curves back away from elbows?

Please help ;) ;)!!!
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Yes, thats right.
 
Oh no! That's the opposite to above comment re curve (long side) facing front legs.......can you see why I'm so confuddled?!?!
 
Yes, very confusing! I'm fairly certain the longer side faces the back legs and the side with the two little 'dips' face the front, the 'dips' being shaped for the front legs?
 
I can see what you mean, but then the girth wouldn't suit a horse with a forward girth groove as the curve would be further away from front legs??
 
Hmm, these girths are too confusing for my little head!

I think horserider (and you) are right actually, just 'drew' it in my head. I'm going off to the dunces corner now :(
 
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I can see what you mean, but then the girth wouldn't suit a horse with a forward girth groove as the curve would be further away from front legs??
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The girth wouldn't infere with the movement of the legs because it is set back while the centre of the girth sits forward ( in the usual position) to give stability on a deep chested horse.

Hope so anyway, otherwise my poor horse has been wearing an upside down girth !
 
I use one of these :D

OK, let me see if I can explain in a different way. Horse has forward girth groove... so when normal girth is attached to saddle, and hangs down, if you take it under the belly in a straight line (as you're supposed to), it is not sitting in the narrowest part of belly. This means as you ride, it slips forward, into the narrowest part behind the front legs and so drags the saddle forward too.

When you get a curved girth, imagine it attached to saddle and hanging down. What you want is for the girth to hang down straight from saddle, but to sit in the narrowest part (girth groove)... so as you stand to the left of the horse, and look at girth hanging down, it hangs straight until it gets to belly and then the curved part is forward, in the girth groove, and then it curves back on the other side to attach srraight to the saddle on the other side. There would be no purpose to a girth attached to curve the other way ;) as it would be even further from the girth groove around the broadest part of the belly.

For what it's worth, I find the curved girth works really well :)
 
Just to say BB's explanation is one of the best I have seen, & I sell the Prestige anatomical girths!!
Everyone finds them a little hard to fathom to begin with, but they do work brilliantly
 
Just to say BB's explanation is one of the best I have seen, & I sell the Prestige anatomical girths!!
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Thank you ;) The most important thing (according to my saddle fitter) is that a girth is not supposed to slant... it's supposed to hang in a straight line from the saddle, provided the saddle is positioned correctly. If it is slanted forward (like this... /...) when done up, an anatomical or curved girth is a good idea. My piggybank is not quite full enough for a Prestige yet, but I'm getting there :)
 
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