How many bridles do you have?

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Sabrina&Stardust

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Just wondering because my friend has 6 !:eek: JUST FOR ONE HORSE:eek:& they're all nice ones! I only have one but have got my eye on another..:rolleyes: ;). So how many bridles do you have?:)
 
I have 1 show bridle, 1 double bridle, 2 comfort bridles (one for each horse) and 2 older bridles I don't use anymore.

There is nothing I love more than buying bridles :p
 
I've got 10, but in my defence I've collected them over the last 12 yrs or so. I have a double, 2 for best, a dr cook type one, 1 for lunging and a few spares. Oh and I only have 1 horse lol
 
i'll just use one of them as an example - home bridle for hacking/schooling, another for jumping as he needs the grackle for this, a double show bridle, a snaffle show bridle, a show jumping bridle and a blingy montrosity which i have never used :p

probably lots in the garage too boxed up but we wont get into that! I have a bad habbit of buying things and never selling the other ones !:o
 
I have two and I thought that was excessive. She has a different bit for hacking and I got fed up of swapping. One is seriously old though and may need updating after having read that some of you are into double figures!
 
oo I'm not doing too badly then - I cleaned mine yesterday and counted up that I have 5...I have 3 beasts...mind you, one of them isn't bitted yet so doesn't wear a bridle...one of the others is bitted but isn't rideable at the mo so doesn't wear a bridle..and the other one is ridden in a headcollar and reins...oh dear.. congratulated myself prematurely there I think...:rolleyes:
 
Never used them before- anyone found that comfort bridles are actually better for the nags or else just something you think looks better?;) just wondering..
 
4. One snaffle one, jumping one, XC and hunting one and a spare. Just cos I can't be bothered to keep changing the bit!! So have seperate bridles with the bits I need already on :)
 
I have 3, 1 with a flash noseband and snaffle for schooling, 1 with a grackle and gag bit for hacking/jumping, 1 with a flash with purple padding on noseband and browband for jumping at shows to match my purple show gear ;) :p
 
2: my Stubben and my material bridle :) each has a matching martingale.

I also still have the rather grim one he came with so technically have 3....

And various bits
 
She has one basic one, it's been well used so isn't as nice as it used to be (but looks ok when it's freshly polished!) so I'm saving to get her a lovely new one.
She has a 'competition' one purely because it was on ebay at an absolute bargain price and I couldn't resist - not that we're anywhere near competition yet but it's beautiful and lives in the house!

My gelding had about 5..... but 3 were spares :confused:
 
Oh gosh at least six or seven before I start looking in tack trunks (of which I also have six or seven:o) to find ones I have forgotten about and pieces I could put together to make into bridles. That's also not counting things like rope hackamores, obviously.
- normal dressage bridle
- western curb bridle
- double bridle - WHY? SHE DOESN'T EVER GO IN A DOUBLE?!?!?! I had it for showing YEARS ago and lent it to my friend whose horse did need a double for medium then he sold the horse so now I have it back to gather cobwebs.
- black bridle to match her jumping saddle. Which she doesn't wear because it has a lozenge snaffle on it and she prefers a myler and I can't afford a duplicate myler just to have two different coloured bridles
- bridle with myler combination on it
- blue webbing bridle with pelham on it. When I was sixteen I definitely thought I needed that.
- Brightly coloured tan bridle I got in France with snaffle on it sitting in a box

Of those, I only really use the first two and the rope hackamore. In my defence, I have had my pony since I was fourteen (I'm twenty-seven now) and I was a total shopaholic for buying ridiculous things when I was in my teens. I haven't bought a new bridle for a very long while, thank goodness. I have been eyeing up pretty jeffries ones as despite having lots of bridles, most of them are cheap and my favourite one is scratched up since my pony got her head stuck in a bush last February (don't ask). But thank you, this thread has made me realise I should be ebaying stuff not buying more. Do you think there is a market for blue webbing bridles and matchy matchy martingales? (Why on earth did I buy that? I have NEVER needed a martingale, especially not a BLUE one!)
 
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Do you think there is a market for blue webbing bridles and matchy matchy martingales? (Why on earth did I buy that? I have NEVER needed a martingale, especially not a BLUE one!)
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Of course you needed the martingale, ESPECIALLY a blue one- you might have had an colour co-ordination emergency when the one thing that saved the day was a blue martingale:D;)
 
unbalanced said:
- Do you think there is a market for blue webbing bridles and matchy matchy martingales? (Why on earth did I buy that? I have NEVER needed a martingale, especially not a BLUE one!)
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Endurance horses seem to potter along in brightly coloured tack. That's why you need it. You clearly secretly yearn to do endurance.
 
One cheap black snaffle bridle and one bit, that just get a good polish and look fine for our level of dressage! I did upgrade my reins, so i have a spare pair of those.
 
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