If you were buying a bridle for this horse…

[smolmaus]

I have one that I'm toying with selling.... it's a Pioneer Endurance one.
Fits a fell pony well..... drop me a pm if you want info if sizing might be ok x

How kind! I will be having wine on Saturday, we will see if a PM ends up somewhere

 

[Emilieu]

View attachment 159309you're all wrong apart from @Caol Ila and @smolmaus you need a bright biothane with no nose band with a dark pony any bright colour will stand out lovely and biothane is so easy to look after.

Now you know I could be tempted by this!

 

[Emilieu]

One that fits - seriously though

a cob size will have far too small a browband and pull the back into his ears
full size will have cheek piece buckles up where all the nerves join.

Have a good measure of what he's currently in to make sure whichever style fits well. Probably you'll have to buy separates to get a good fit.

Mine with a similar build has extra full browband, cob headpiece, pony cheeks - and really those are still touch long

You want the cheek buckles as low as you can. In the two sales picks above the chestnut horse is a much better fit than the grey - the grey the cheeks are too long so the buckles sit too high and on the place where the nerves are closest.

I don't bother with a noseband unless I have to have one for dressage comps.

Thank you, this is excellent advice. I think from that description that current cheek pieces (full) are too long.

 

[Meredith]

Try Horsemanship Saddlery. All pieces sold individually but one bridle price. Measuring guides given or fitter recommended. They do a Hunter bridle that looks lovely.
I have the Avante

 

[Emilieu]

Try Horsemanship Saddlery. All pieces sold individually but one bridle price. Measuring guides given or fitter recommended. They do a Hunter bridle that looks lovely.
I have the Avante

I am just looking at the one @Annagain linked to, I think it might be the frontrunner. So many great suggestions though, I will need a spreadsheet to sort through them all

 

[MuddyMonster]

View attachment 159309you're all wrong apart from @Caol Ila and @smolmaus you need a bright biothane with no nose band with a dark pony any bright colour will stand out lovely and biothane is so easy to look after.

I was going to say biothane too. Mainly as you can ride in any weather and feel smug about dunking it a bucket or the washing machine after a ride

I'd get a high viz one from Pioneer Endurance with browband and nose though so you'll shine like a beacon when headlights or a head torch hit it.

 

[southerncomfort]

I like a plaited browband like https://www.zaintack.co.uk/product-...-show-bridle-with-2-noseband-plaited-browband but I don't know if it would be acceptable in a show.

I have a plaited browband on my Fell pony. He looks super smart!

We mostly don't bother with a noseband though!

 

[Sanversera]

I would never use biothane on my horse. I witnessed an accident at an endurance event when a horse sustained a terrible mouth injury when the bridle got caught up on something and the buckles didn't snap. It was horrendous. I don't know if the horse survived. At least leather tends to snap and break if put under pressure.

 

[Emilieu]

Thanks for all the advice. Here is the final result! Arrived just in time for the girl’s birthday
Thoughts on fit?

 

[welshcobabe]

Well apart from been a gelding we are matching also have a same sort of bridle on my lad

 

[rara007]

Thanks for all the advice. Here is the final result! Arrived just in time for the girl’s birthday
Thoughts on fit?

Very smart