Devoucoux - Kolibri breastplate!

hhmm it looks like quite an orangey colour leather doesnt it...

wonder how much it'll go for. can't remember how much they are new, £160 ??
 
Can I ask a dumb question - what is so fantastic about one of these breastplates that warrents spending the best part of £200 on one
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I'm sure for alot of people it's the fashion... but there are horses out there that two brestplates wont work on, i have one of them, and with a kolibri the saddle sits in place fine, and i don't even have to do the girth up so tight, therefore making it easier for the horse to get its second wind on the xc for example.
 
£260 for a few peices of leather IS WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!
Every single horse does not need such a breastplate and yet it seems you MUST be seen with your horse wearing one when eventing darling...
Obviously if the horse needs one then fine-they do work very efficiently but as a fashion statement I'd rather strangle myself with one!
 
If you need one you do, but its silly how many I see wearing them incorrectly at intro/lower levels....... it must be the fashion, or they haven't seen how much entry fees are for 3DE's!
 
Its irrelevant how much a 3DE is! If they have the money to buy it let them, cant see them causing any damage being slightly to lose or something like.

I do agree they are a ridiculous price, that is why I am going to look at the Tiggas ones at Aston.

I need one for Spider as she wears 2 breastplates and I tighten her girth too much really!! But Mac doesnt need one but will wear it when I get one!!
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I always feel that a belt and braces approach is better. Horses can put in some incredible gymnastics when jumping and it doesn't take much to move the saddle on saome horses, despite it being fitted and checked regularly.
I prefer to have a loosely fitted breastplate just in case to prevent a slippage rather than to hold a saddle in placee.
Willoughs saddle always slpis back, starting at the girth as she is flat sided when fit.
 
Its a valid point. And def on my other saddles i have always used a breastplate.

Just with this current saddle nothing seems to budge it.

Snoop wears a martingale anyway but winston wears very little tack. TBH around PN i dont feel i need very much, hes not one to do very much - even falling in the trakehner last year in the Novice at Aston didnt shift the saddle lol (btw i dont have it really tight either).
 
Totally agree with BB's post
I always thought a saddle is fitted so that you only need to use minimum number of 'gadgets' to aid its efficiency-e.g a girth! It is fitted to such an extent that it shouldn't move, slip back, slip forward etc because you are matching saddle to horse as best as possible.

NOW, I'm not saying that some horses don't need breastplates etc as we nowadays ask them to move in a more strenuous way than natural to the horse esp. cross country-I just get cheesed off with people buying items of horse wear that are hugely expensive and extortionately overpriced for what they are truely worth simply because it the 'must have' item-but hey thats what keeps the horse retail market solvent!

Rant over for now!!!!
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I wish we didn't need to use both a hunting breastplate and a breast collar. Have tried just one or the other but the saddle shifts. Saddler says the saddle fits perfectly it's just a VERY big moving pony.
 
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