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

[Vetwrap]

Mine was a Masta Stormasta - self righting, centre seam, no tail flap, massively deep green canvas number. It was a fabulous rug, just a leather strap to secure at the front and leather leg straps, but... my GOD!... was it heavy when wet!

It did rub his shoulders bald, but it was a great rug.

 

[Autumn sonnet]

Yep , another canvas NZ rug here too , that took forever to dry . And the jute rugs with the folded blanket underneath . I do miss that bit I confess .

And for my first Christmas after I got her , Mum and Dad splashed out , and she got a navy and pale blue Lavenham stable rug , with black cross surcingles . Everyone thought we were the dog's danglies . It was the first quilted rug on the yard

 

[Autumn sonnet]

Vetwrap I remember the Stormmasta , my first big horse had one . It was great but went down to his knees so he always reminded me of medieval charger in it ! Mind you , that was also helped by his prancing and snorting exhibitions

 

[Archangel]

Y Mum and Dad splashed out , and she got a navy and pale blue Lavenham stable rug , with black cross surcingles .

It wasn't a Lavenham Cosy was it? I had one of those, they really were 'the' rug to have.

 

[Irishcobs]

It was canvas, blue with a grey felt lining, no belly straps just one leather buckle strap at the chest and leather leg straps. This was 17 yrs old and I still have it! It hasn't been on a horse for 15yrs but covers the bikes in the shed really well

 

[seaofdreams]

yep my pony had a canvas nz rug too, i can remember my being so excited when my mum brought me a rambo orginal turnout for him one christmas. Lottie still wears her chaskit rug now!!

 

[Autumn sonnet]

Rebel , it was ! When I put it on her, we had an audience! I loved that rug , and only got rid of it last year , when I passed it on to a friend . It was still going though, some 20 odd years on

Now , we have so much choice , I find it really daunting . So much so , I have to keep buying new ones for the practice

 

[camilla4]

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. And using blankets underneath when it was really cold. I actually miss not using blankets. Is that really sad?!

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

Exactly the same for me, Spyda - I also remember those self righting NZ rugs and coveted one!!! The old green ones were such a pain - so heavy...

 

[Littlelegs]

I actually still have an old landsdown, the one with the leather leg straps, front & back, the 'self righting' one. Not used it as a rug for years, but still makes a handy tarpaulin!

 

[Spring Feather]

The first "rug" was not a rug at all, it was a woollen horse blanket (like the Newmarket ones but gold only, no stripes) held on by a jute surcingle. There were jute rugs at that time but they were difficult to find. Eventually we moved onto jute rugs though. Next we had the green heavy canvas NZs with the jute surcingles (not attached!). And a number of years later ... along came Lavenham rugs! Oh my, were they an invention, and fabulous compared to the old jute rugs. Rambo was my first buy of the modern turnout rugs, got the first one way back in the 80s and never looked back. When it comes to rugs, there were no "good old days" lol. Rugs in those days were hard work and near-on useless.

 

[Queenbee]

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!!!!

Awww, that is so sweet

I can't really remember all the mediocre rugs my boy trashed, they were all 'new zeland' types, and he would wreck about 3 or four a season, but I remember biting the bullet the year the rambo original hit the market, the price was a huge gamble and shock in comparison to NZ rugs but it seemed that he respected quality, as it was still going strong 8 years later, he put a small square nick in the tail guard the very first night and that was it, hard wearing and waterproof until 9 years on when it started to leak a wee bit.

I remember walking into Mole Valley Farmers in Newton Abbot and coming out with my arms full of green and red expensive rug, courtesy of daddys bank card

 

[DW Team]

My first were in fact three rugs all my Birthdaay and Christmas money spent on a string vest sweat rug in red, a jute rug with jute roller, and finally a green canvas NZ with wool lining. The sweat sheet was so useful in drying wet pony off thatched with straw. Had them for many years also had a Lavenham blue rug with red bindings. All this was in the early 70's

 

[Pinkvboots]

First rug was a horrible jute rug bought from southall never fitted and I remember buying a blue lavenham quilt, I thought I was the nuts with a quilt as they were the new thing in .
I also remember before we had wicking rugs, putting straw on the ponies back when they were wet then putting the jute on inside out crazy eh.

 

[bobajob]

Mine was a really cheap tacky green New Zealand rug, not waterproof at all and I had like a hemp stable rug with a cheap lining.

 

[Goldenstar]

Yes I was eight and it was jute with grey blanket on the inside it was for my second pony. You needed a roller to keep it on that was jute to.
Before for my first pony I had a sack ( bran came in jute sacks then) and a sursingle when he came back from hunting I put straw along his back the sack on top and held it on with the sursingle.