How many of you have two bridles: one for best, one for everyday

I have one I use for hacking, schooling, jumping, fun rides etc, then a nice Jeffries hunter bridle for showing and hunting (fab bargain off ebay!!!).
 
Lottie (31 y/o ISH) has 1, although she is now retired, she still sometimes potters with my friend's 5 and 6 y/o's

Ice (5y/o spotty arab dressage diva) has 1, she doesn't go anywhere yet and is for sale

The Shoe (16hh ISH not mine, Sharer's) has 2, 1 for day to day and a new one for shows.

Beau (14.3 spotty cob) has several, she has a brown comfort to go with her brown gp for working hunter classes, she has a black with baby blue padded comfort for everyday, a black with royal blue comfort for shows to go with her black jumping saddle and a keiffer that I was given as a gift but have saved for 'best' and consequently never used!!

OMG that's 4, my pony is spoiled! They are pretty much all ebay bargains.

**hangs head in shame thinking of the 'poor kids' post from yesterday **

Must buy more ponies to use all the bridles.
 
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Must buy more ponies to use all the bridles.
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Well Genie (7yo welsh D) has 2 - her posh Sabre showing one for showing (obviously!), and her everyday one that she uses for competing when a flash is needed as well.

Titchy (2yo Cob x) also has 2... Her in-hand bridle and the everyday one I used for bitting her.
 
I have one everyday bridle, and another clean and posh one for dressage. They both have the same bits in.
Oh and I have one more, but it's made up of old spare bridles and doesn't look too fancy but it's there if I need it.

I love shopping for bridles, I'm surprised I don't have more :)
 
Err my mare has more than 2 :o

She has an everyday brown bridle, and everyday black bridle, a competition brown bridle and then numerous different nosebands, inhand stuff (not that I ever do inhand showing with her)
She also has a brown martingale, a black martingale, a brown hunting breastplate, a black hunting breastplate.

To be fair most of them have been used on previous horses, she's always getting hand me downs. She's 16.3 but some of the stuff was used on my 13hh's! ;)

My dressage saddle (which I've now sold) was black and my gp saddle brown so must be matching for outings ;)
 
Erm I have my western bridle, my parelli cradle, my dressage bridle with myler bit and blingy browband (brown to match my dressage saddle), my black bridle to match my jumping saddle, a blue webbing one with a pelham on (ok I got that when I was 14 and it was cool, I don't use it any more *hangs head in shame), a couple of rope hackamores, a couple of bridles without bits on "just for spare, emergencies"... And that's just what I have hanging up in my tack room for one horse, I haven't even looked to see what there is in my two trunks...
I have had my horse for twelve years and I'm a bit of a collector, evidently...
 
I have two everyday bridles, one with the snaffle for schooling, hacking out alone and shows, and one with the Kimblewick for group hacking!

I also have about 3 more in the garage at home, a double and two snaffles that are all too small for elephant head's face!! :D
 
My mare has....well a few :o

She has two for everyday, a snaffle bridle and a comfort bridle with a universal bit for jumping.
We then have an old 'spare' just in case.
A fancy showing one with a hunter noseband for showing and dressage
We then have another fancy one for going out sj, xc, fun rides etc etc

So thats 5 :o.....I do know someone who has more than me and the fancy ones are shared between two horses so not too bad!
They both have 2 for everyday and they both have an old spare then they share the nice fancy ones
 
1 sabre for showing, old sabre for everyday, libbys for rain, in hand for showing & a dr cooks as he had a badly injured mouth when we got him so thats 5 in total plus some old ones that are from my horses over the years
 
Like others, Merlin has more than two bridles.;) Three, in fact. His 'in hand' bridle, which I use for walking out in hand to nibble on grass, his western bridle and his driving bridle.

The driving bridle gets the most use, closly followed by the 'in hand' one. I have to say as I'm riding him less and less now, I may well part with his western tack. Or maybe not! Decisions, decisions!! lol :D

I also have my daughter's first pony's bridle still hanging up. Lots of memories go with this one, so it's staying where it is. :)
 
Omg I have loads :o

1 x everyday
1 x for shows
1 x double bridle
1 x set up for lungeing
1 x set up for jumping / xc
1 x spare indoors looking a bit peaky but will keep for spares.

I also have 3 saddles for 1 horse :eek: Maybe I should cut down on the spending lol! x
 
I wish! Use 2 different bits so have a bridle with snaffle for schooling & dressage comps & other with gag on for hacking & jumping comps, saves messing about changing bits but both get used at home & shows!
 
I have spent the last 24 hours cleaning bridles.
We have at least thirty bridles ! We dont ride much anymore as we have oncentrated on breeding and showing (in hand) for the last five years or so.
I have had my four year old Welsh C broken and she is going to her first novice class in July.
I hve ordered her a new Sabre bridle for her debut.
Guess thats thirty one !
 
Dom has a lunging bridle, and everyday bridle, and a sabre for competitions

Harvey has an everyday, and a sabre for competitions

Owen has a double for practising at home, a double for competitions, a home bridle, and a sabre for competitions

Cass has a home, and inhand and a comp bridle - even though shes retired...

Heidi has western tack, a synthetic bridle (bleurgh!) and a home bridle. Oh and a sabre comp bridle, shes retired too, hmmm...

Then, we have about 10 saddles excluding the western, most just sit and rot now =[


Also got vast collection of other bridles, from first ponies, old ponies etc that never seem to get chucked away...

And, with hopefully 2 new horsies coming shortly (when we can find some, grrr i HATE horse hunting!) then we shall have an even bigger collection :D haha

bexcy-bee x
 
I normally have 3, 1 for showing, 1 for riding and 1 for lunging. However with money the way it is at the minute I have to scrub down my everyday bridle for showing and a slip piece and bit for lunging
 
I have 2, one for each horse, it's all I can afford at the moment and they are smart enough for going out too :D

Might get a one for posh later, but can't justify it at the mo :)
 
I have a keiffer- and decided to buy either an elevator or an Albion but thought it might be greedy- however you lot are clearly much greedier so I will continue with my spree ;-)
 
I have just one, but will buy a smart one when we start going places that justify it. It is brown with a hunter noseband but not the best leather.
 
I have two main bridles I use; both Stubben 1085 two-tone crank bridles, one is black with cavesson noseband and the other brown with a flash. Which I use on a given day depends on which saddle I'm using and/or whether or not I want to avoid using a flash noseband!
 
I have a Mark Todd one for jumping/xc, sort of a tan colour to match my jumping saddle. Then a Frank Baines black crank bridle for dressage (would like a patent one though!)

It's really useful to have 2 for events as I don't have to swap bits around :)
 
Um, I'm a bit of a bridle collector I think.

Bridle 1: rolled/comfort leather & came complete with rubberised reins (now needing replacement). Our "best" bridle which we'd use for hunting, competing etc.

Bridle 2: for hacking, riding in the rain, etc etc: old bridle composed of bits & pieces of various bridles we've had in the past, some of which must be about 25 years old? Somewhere there's a set of nylon plaited reins which I used to use when this bridle was new. This bridle went with my horse when he went to equestrian college on working livery; basically if it got minced or pinched it wouldn't have been any loss.

Bridle 3: wintec/synthetic. Deffo for when its tiddling down and can't be arsed to clean on return. Somewhere is a set of Libby's synthetic clip-on reins (probably purloined as a dog lead??) which go with this.

Bridle 4: "Barefoot" Cedar bridle. My first e-bay purchase, which is a bridle and headcollar combined, which we use for TREC. Absolutely indispensable and don't know what I did without it. Very handy piece of kit.

Bridle 5 (yes honestly!): Zilco endurance bridle-cum-headcollar, in puke-inducing green. Again, for TREC, but more commonly for hacking when its tiddling down and we want to be visible.

Also in the tack room we've got a drawer stuffed full of various cheekpieces, headpieces etc., so probably could rustle up another good two or three bridles in various sizes if pushed :)
 
My horse has more than one-work bridle(snaffle), show bridle (snaffle), work double, best double and show double, jumping bridle with grackle noseband. I'm too lazy to change bits around!
 
Oh my poor horse is so deprived! Only has one bridle, a sabre on for everything. Just change bits over for whatever am doing.
May have to run out and buy him some more to keep up lol. Though after just buying him a brand new saddle think it will have to wait :)
 
Umm ... I'm a bit of a brdiel collector too! The run down:

4 inhand bridles varying from pony to cob size in different styles.

4 shetland bridles.

2 for my dartmoor.

My two small (I say small they are 15.2hh and 16.1hh) share bridles but I have 3 for them.

My big tb (17.2hh hence the small tb's above!) has 2 bridles.

I have my everyday work bridle.

And then for the spares! I have about 6 spare fully made up bridles and another 3 that are mix and match from old stuff. Again all range from pony size to full size.

I have more bits than you can shake a stick at - everything from little plastic in-hand bits to NS Snaffles to every version of Pelham to Doubles. The only bit's I don't have are gags, Whilst I don't have anything against them I just don't use them.

All of my bridles are Sabre, Jeffries or Collegiate.

If you want to know about saddles then give me a week to catalogue them :D
 
Has anybody else kept the bridle that their beloved but passed on horse wore? My Dollys (RIP) immaculate black Sabre x full bridle has never been used since she died 4 years ago,but I keep it with my all my other bridles and it gets cleaned when they do. Just can't bear to part with it and it doesn't go with my Sashas' brown tack...of which she already has 4 bridles and 3 saddles anyway!

Of all my bridles I love my Easitrek bitless bridle by far the most..it was by far the cheapest too,it was the answer for my Sasha, who loves it.
 
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