Dressage girths

[Storminateacup]

Wondering if anyone can advise me. My horse takes a 58 inch standard girth but I have bought her a dressage saddle, and not sure what size too order. How much shorter does a dressage girth have to be to be a good fit and clear the elbow region and be correct?

 

[cobgoblin]

Plop the dressage saddle on her and measure. Usually you need a dressage girth in the region of 20" shorter than a long girth.

 

[Storminateacup]

cant find the tape measure! hence question............thought there was a ratio I could work on. What is the largest size dressage girth length?

 

[LynH]

It does often depend on the dressage saddle and the length of the flaps and straps. I have to use differsnt length girths on each of my dressage saddles when on the same horse. Also some girths like Amerigo or Fairfax need to be 2-4" longer than your usual dressage girth size.

My horse who is in a 56" girth wears either a 24" or 26" and the one in a 60" girth wears 30" - 34" dressage.

 

[JFTDWS]

Mine wears a 38" standard girth and a 20" dressage girth (mostly because finding shorter girths is hard!). That was an Ideal VSD to an Albion K2 dressage. A 24" short girth was better for his Jeffries Flyover though. I think docking 20" is fairly standard for GP to dressage.

 

[cobgoblin]

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cant find the tape measure! hence question............thought there was a ratio I could work on. What is the largest size dressage girth length?

Piece of baler twine?

 

[case895]

I measured for a dressage girth on my lunge roller using baling twine and a marker pen. Aim for middle holes.