Numnah help for working hunter saddle!

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Hello, am after a ideas for a numnah for my native pony saddle working hunter.
Basically everything seems to be the wrong shape!! GPs are no good atall, dressage ones seem too long and i have a nummed one but i think it muct be too big for the saddle as you can see a fair bit of it at the back?
Saddle is 17" - he also has a black wool edged type nummed one but this is cob size and too small, yet the full sizes are too big?!!
Can anyone help?
 
I've got nuumed one for shows, it's the fur edged one but not the wool version, just their cheap acrylic one. I think it's just a medium working hunter cut and that fits fine, also have a nuumed white dressage square for dressage, think that one is a high wither medium but it was a present so not sure what size. And just a polypad for everyday. My saddle is a 17inch native pony saddle working hunter saddle.
 
Lizness - that would be incorrect for the show ring!! sorry but it looks extremely amaturish not to have a numnah!

As for getting one to fit it Depends what WH saddle you have.
Numnahs that fit ideal ramseys dont fit Farrington wH saddles.

Fylde does a range of WH numnahs as they have a range of saddles in various sizes, Supreme products also do a good WH numnah.
 
Thanks everyone :)

I spotted the supreme products one looks good for the money.

Am after an everyday one too. Will check out the other links. I have a dressage square which is ROMA which sits well under his saddle, but with him being a short coupled welshie he does look better with a numnah :)
 
I never did find a suitable numnah for my 17" wh saddle. I used a gp or dressage square for every day and just a half pad for best as it was the only thing that looked neat.
 
I like numed numnahs as they come in a range of shapes, sizes, materials and therefore budgets.

There is a good secondhand market in lambskin numnahs and these usually can be cut to fit - The facebook group 'Show Gear for sale and wanted' is a good one
 
Mattes pads/numnahs in cob size are a good fit for our 16.5-17.5 saddles, the dressage one isn't a bad fit but you may want to custom order one with 1" or so taken off the flap length, they will do that for about 10% extra cost.
 
conniegirl said:
Lizness - that would be incorrect for the show ring!! sorry but it looks extremely amaturish not to have a numnah!
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Times must have changed, then. It used to be amateurish if you DID have a numnah! (Or so the lecturer at Pony Club camp informed us in the 70s). Mind you, hardly anyone used them then in my neck of the woods.
 
It's not incorrect not to have a numnah - it's perfectly acceptable - the only correct numnah as far as most top showing people are concerned is a lamb skin cut to fit ... There are a few companies that do this for specific saddles...
 
There are plenty of acceptable numnahs blitznbobs, they do not have to be lambskin (although they are quite useful for disguising a long back!). Cotton numnahs, gel numnahs and limpits are all used by top show bods. You will not see one without a numnah!
It is one of those pieces of information floating round that everyone seems to take as fact but it WRONG.
No numnah is better than a saddle cloth, but a well fitting numnah is correct.

I'll be competing tommorow without a numnah as I dont have one for my lad yet (i have lots for smaller creatures!), its a small local show for his first ever outing and he will be in a dressage saddle as he doesnt have a show saddle yet (sat on for the first time 4 weeks ago) but I wouldnt dream of doing the same at a decent show!
 
Sorry to hijack :( but we are thinking if doing WH, the ww does not offer much help, so may I ask, what does it entail? I know we are good to go with the jumping, but what happens after? Also do we absolutely need a leather saddle ?
 
mulledwhine.
Try www.theshowring.info

Basicly you have to do a course of rustic jumps, do not showjump them, the round needs to be clear, flowing and at a good hunting canter, no chipping in strides etc.
Once everyone has jumped the clears and occasionaly the 4 faulters (normaly only if very few clears) will be called back in where you will have to do a group walk, trot and canter on each rein and a gallop on one rein (at stewards direction).
You will then be called into line by the steward, sometimes in any order, sometimes in a set order.
At local level and in all pony classes you will then be called out to do an individual show, you must show walk trot and canter on each rein and a gallop on one rein, shows are normaly under 2 mins long. Short and sweet is best.
at county level in the horse classes rather than an individual show the judge will ride the horse, make sure your horse us used to being ridden by a wide variety of people and that your stirrups and leathers are big enough to accomodate 6ft+ blokes and have enough holes for the 5ft petitie women!
Once the individual/ride is done the line up will be asked to walk round and will be called in to line in final order!
 
conniegirl said:
mulledwhine.
Try www.theshowring.info

Basicly you have to do a course of rustic jumps, do not showjump them, the round needs to be clear, flowing and at a good hunting canter, no chipping in strides etc.
Once everyone has jumped the clears and occasionaly the 4 faulters (normaly only if very few clears) will be called back in where you will have to do a group walk, trot and canter on each rein and a gallop on one rein (at stewards direction).
You will then be called into line by the steward, sometimes in any order, sometimes in a set order.
At local level and in all pony classes you will then be called out to do an individual show, you must show walk trot and canter on each rein and a gallop on one rein, shows are normaly under 2 mins long. Short and sweet is best.
at county level in the horse classes rather than an individual show the judge will ride the horse, make sure your horse us used to being ridden by a wide variety of people and that your stirrups and leathers are big enough to accomodate 6ft+ blokes and have enough holes for the 5ft petitie women!
Once the individual/ride is done the line up will be asked to walk round and will be called in to line in final order!
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Thank you, I am guessing that under 122 cms you do not have to gallop ?
 
Depends if it is the open or the cradle stakes, the open yes they would be expected to gallop both in a group and individualy, the cradle stakes wont gallop in a group but will be expected to show it in thier individual
 
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