dont worry we wont laugh ...can you remember the first rug you bought?

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mine was by Moorcroft (are they still around?) around 11 years ago it was a green with red binding turnout it had faux sheepskin linning and elasticated leg straps it was a lovely rug cost around £80 my silly mare of the time outgrew it :( gutted x
 
i can remember the first rug i made!!!!!! As a little girl desperate for a pony and with parents on a tight budget the best i could have was a small pony money box. I made it a rug out of black and white felt ... white with black edging and then embroidered my initials on it!!!!!
Ahhhhhhhh ... all donations welcome!!!!
 
I remember saving up my pocket money to buy my hairy pony a NZ rug - it was a green canvas type, with a felt lining - purchased from one of those skanky clearance sales.
I cringe looking back, but was mighty proud at the time!! I'm sure the pony would have been better not subjected to a badly fitting barely waterproof rug if I'm honest!
 
The rug of my first pony was a (now I could have the name wrong) Polywarm stable rug. It was blue with red binding- what a surprise! - and had cross surcingles that could detach at both sides. I loved that rug!

The first indoor rug I actually bought him was 5 years later when I was 15. :$ It was a navy/lilac check Fal Trojan. I thought I was well cool that I'd managed to find a purple rug! It was the talk of the yard. :p I'm nearly 27 now and I haven't changed. He now sports a Fal Candy in winter and also a bright magenta Weatherbeeta. ;)
 
luckyoldme said:
i can remember the first rug i made!!!!!! As a little girl desperate for a pony and with parents on a tight budget the best i could have was a small pony money box. I made it a rug out of black and white felt ... white with black edging and then embroidered my initials on it!!!!!
Ahhhhhhhh ... all donations welcome!!!!
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I made one for my first pony too, it was hideous!
First proper rug I owned was a Chaskit NZ.
 
I'm only 23 so not the first I bought but, I used to loan a pony who wore a canvas rug with felt lining, no surcingles and leather leg straps! Her field mate died and she inherited a 'cameo' green (still canvas, but softer) with surcingles and a sheep skin lining! That actually fit really nicely but I still bought her the bright pink shires rug (I think the first ever pink rug made?) Now I stick to dark colours and have lots of hand-me-down rugs :)
 
the day my and my friend walked in to our local tack shop and they had brushes and rugs in purple will be a day i will never forget i was soooo excited no more green grooming kit yessss :) (yes i have an exciting life) i used to help out with an old 28yo and i used to rug him up in a polly warma (or how ever you spell it) until i moved yards last year :) x
 
Ooh yes, I remember my Jute stable rugs with the blanket lining. And the poxy single surcingle that would always slip so ponies would be standing on their rugs by morning. :rolleyes: And using blankets underneath when it was really cold. I actually miss not using blankets. Is that really sad?! :o

I also had the green canvas New Zealands, again with the blanket lining, poxy single surcingle, a buffalo hide single buckle front strap and leg straps.

I always longed for one of those expensive blue 'self righting' New Zealands. The ones which were really really deep and came down to below the horse's knees :D
 
Spyda said:
OOoooh, I'm jealous! That's the posh New Zealand I longed for but could never afford when I was a kid.
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It came with my second pony - I was the only person I knew who had one of them and weirdly enough I wished I had NORMAL rugs like everyone else :rolleyes:
 
Yes!! A Loveson half neck in 6'3" which turned out to be too small, i ended up giving it to someone else on the yard.

It was 10yrs ago, for my girl who I had to have PTS this year. The pony I had when I was a kid never had a rug! Lol, sign of the times.

I had left a deposit for her, so of course had to go shopping :) went with a friend, we didn't know what rug size she was so we bought the same as my friends similar size cob, when I did get her home and put the rug on it was too small! Oh well :) excuse to do more rug shopping.
 
Mine was a second hand brown New Zealand, they weren't called turn out rugs back then ! It was made by Spillers and had a jute surcingle sewn into it and leather leg straps and leather buckles to do the front up, totally impractical as very hard to undo once muddy or wet. When it rained you could actually stand it up as though it was still on the horse, they were that rigid :eek:
 
My first pony (bless 'im, dear little man) never ever wore any sort of rug for his entire life; so I never bought a rug for him.

When I got my first horse was the first time I'd ever bought a rug! I somehow ended up with this turquoise green sicky coloured rent-a-tent NZ rug thing which I got cheaply at a sale, that TBH never really fitted him, poor lad, and it weighed a ton. It DID do what it said on the tin though, and was totally waterproof!
 
luckyoldme said:
i can remember the first rug i made!!!!!! As a little girl desperate for a pony and with parents on a tight budget the best i could have was a small pony money box. I made it a rug out of black and white felt ... white with black edging and then embroidered my initials on it!!!!!
Ahhhhhhhh ... all donations welcome!!!!
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This^^^ I had no chance of having a pony but I collected model ponies and made rugs for them out of felt. Even the tiny little Britain's ones!
I also made hay and straw out of wool (as well as some really natty rugs) for my Anna and Happytime.
How sad is that.
 
Mine was an old stylee canvas New Zealand rug with a jute lining but it was state of the art at the time because it had a sheepskin wither pad and real leather fastening straps at the front. In reality it was awful - fitted badly, rubbed my horses shoulders bare and when it got wet... My God, you needed two people to lift it off the horse, it was that heavy.
 
Mine was a secondhand green canvas nz, lined with a bit of blanket. It had a surcingle with no padding that you had to do up really tight to even keep a little bit straight. My poor thin skinned always cold tb must have been freezing, no wonder he galloped around so much. He would have been so much more comfortable these days.
 
I still have my first stable rug from 1979 :eek: - it was later cut down to make a foal rug but it is in fab condition.

Those early NZs were dire and took days to dry, you had no choice but to winch them back on still soaking wet and stiff.

How I love my Rambos (heavyweight, middleweight, lightweight :rolleyes:). Today's horses don't know they are born!
 
Spyda said:
I always longed for one of those expensive blue 'self righting' New Zealands. The ones which were really really deep and came down to below the horse's knees :D
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i have 2 sat in my portacabin at the yard that havent ever been on a horsey yet lol, think one is a 4'9 the other a 6'6, never used them as they were far far far toooooooo deep and i guessed that once wet, there was no way i would be able to lift them off!

my 1st bought rug was the old New zealand type, followed by a fancy quilted navy with red binding rug - which i proceeded to try and embrioder my ponies name on by hand... i still have it somewhere!
i also attempted to make my own fleece type blankets from those old thick blankets that used to be used as human bedding!
 
I'd had horses for well over 20 years before I bought a rug; in my youth native ponies didn't wear rugs. I only got a canvass NZ for my first horse because I was sick of scraping mud off him so I could ride him - that horse know how to roll for maximum mud coverage.
 
I remember going out and buying a green canvas NZ and a jute rug for my first horse. Jute rug wasn't too bad but the NZ was stiff and had leather leg and chest straps that got clogged with mud and a single surcingle so it slipped. But at the time they were state of the art rugs!!
Oh, and everyone had an anti-sweat rug and most horses had an anti-cast roller too but don't think I could afford that so had to hope mine didn't roll too much!
Cross surcingles hadn't even been thought of then!

We had a tidy up in the tack room at work and have got some vintage jute and canvas rugs there and some of the first lavenham stable rugs with the brushed nylon lining, was like a trip down memory lane!
 
OldNag said:
This^^^ I had no chance of having a pony but I collected model ponies and made rugs for them out of felt. Even the tiny little Britain's ones!
I also made hay and straw out of wool (as well as some really natty rugs) for my Anna and Happytime.
How sad is that.
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ANNA AND HAPPYTIME!!! I'd forgotten all about them! Didn't HT have rather dodgy jointed legs, unlike the rather static Action Girl horse?

I remember the first rug my pony had was the obligatory thick canvas sort, with a single leather buckle at the front and a separate webbing surcingle. I'm sure it wasn't fancy enough to have cross over straps, or even a single one, at the back. It was definitely heavy and can't possibly have been comfortable for the poor little man!
 
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