Dressage Girths

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I’m at the end of my tether looking for a girth for my fussy mare after buying a lovely new dressage saddle with ridiculously short straps.
I need a shaped girth that doesn’t have any seams or lips underneath, no sheepskin and she hates fairfaxes, prolites, Equi-softs and string girths.
Also it needs to be 34’ in black.
Can anyone please help with what is so far proving to be almost impossible 😩
 
I absolutely love my Claridge House dressage girth. It is such supple leather and really looks good. I bought the longest one as my mare has a rather round tummy (large lungs, not fat she tells herself). I use a 54" long girth so went for the 32" short one. I was worried as the advice seemed to be that your dressage girth should be 20" shorter but there weren't any 34" ones. Greatly relieved that it fits her and buckles up quite close to the bottom of the saddle.
https://www.kramer.co.uk/Horse/Sadd...-Girths/Leather-Dressage-Girth-Anatomical-Pro
 
ycbm said:
I use these:

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/392265883301

The short straps are quite likely a result of biometric testing which has shown that girths should be buckled as close to the bottom of the saddle flap as possible. I cut my girth straps shorter these days.

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I tried the wintec version of this but the outer seam really rubs her and she gets so irritable, understandably.
Yes it seems so, I was unaware of this but am now quite glad the straps are as they are after reading up on it, thank you
 
Green Bean said:
I absolutely love my Claridge House dressage girth. It is such supple leather and really looks good. I bought the longest one as my mare has a rather round tummy (large lungs, not fat she tells herself). I use a 54" long girth so went for the 32" short one. I was worried as the advice seemed to be that your dressage girth should be 20" shorter but there weren't any 34" ones. Greatly relieved that it fits her and buckles up quite close to the bottom of the saddle.
https://www.kramer.co.uk/Horse/Sadd...-Girths/Leather-Dressage-Girth-Anatomical-Pro
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Oh I love the look of this, thank you. Going to order one to try and hope it fits the giant
 
Green Bean said:
I absolutely love my Claridge House dressage girth. It is such supple leather and really looks good. I bought the longest one as my mare has a rather round tummy (large lungs, not fat she tells herself). I use a 54" long girth so went for the 32" short one. I was worried as the advice seemed to be that your dressage girth should be 20" shorter but there weren't any 34" ones. Greatly relieved that it fits her and buckles up quite close to the bottom of the saddle.
https://www.kramer.co.uk/Horse/Sadd...-Girths/Leather-Dressage-Girth-Anatomical-Pro
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I mustn’t have read it properly first time and just noticed it only goes up to 32’ 😩 it will definitely be too short for her unfortunately
 
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