Out of fashion tack.

Well I use an irish martingale all the time, and put 2 of my ex's horses into standings. I have suggested a kimblewick for a pony I teach, and there is at least one kineton in use on the yard, and if I can find a small enough one my mare is going in that direction, as she hates a grakle, but needs something. A drop didn't work either.
Must just be me, but i sold lots of the things people are saying are so hard to find, like fulmer loops when I ran a tack shop!!
I also often use an over girth!!
You don't see pairs of girths very often these days though!!
 
alainax said:
Oh I remember one! Remember the "clencher" brass browbands? I never had one myself but every other horse at the yard I worked at wore one!

Havent seen one in years!

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I've got one! Two clencher bridles (both brow and nose), one steel and one brass, and a steel and brass browband that I bought at Bicton about 15 years ago.

I also have a lovely brass clencher headcollar that I bought last year, it's a HKM I think, got it on ebay.

This is the headcollar http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HKM-Lea-L...?pt=UK_Horse_Wear_Equipment&var=&hash=item1e8
 
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Decorative breastplates? When I started riding (age 5) a few of the horses at my riding school had really pretty breastplates, with a decoration in the centre. One had a round metal disk with n inlaid bit of blue glass/plastic/something, another had one that was red instead of blue.

Haven't seen anything like this since.
 
I too have a clincher browband on my horses bridle. I bought it on ebay.
I was spoken to recently at the dressage phase of a PC ODE and told 'I'm sorry but we don't allow any bling' Luckily they let me off this time.
I'd always considered the clinchers to be more workmanlike and it was my stand against the blingy brigade.
 
NZJenny said:
Plain Caveson nosebands. Have you tried to buy a bridle anytime recently with just a plain caveson?
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I have mine made, it is impossible to buy a wide flat noseband on a complete bridle, and why are all the off the peg bridles so short in the throat lash, tight in the browband and narrow leather !!
 
Saddles with high cantles and knee pads. I had one new to take pony to Pony Club camp and thought it was the bees' knees. Easy to sit deeo in though and sooooooooooo comfy after rock hard elderly saddles I'd had previously.
 
Quadro said:
The westropp "clacky" over reach boots. All the rage in the 90s! Leather tendon and fetlock boots seem to be a thing of the past, as does the eggbutt snaffle. All loose ring these days!
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I've just got the clacky OR boots :D. Not so noisy as they used to be (though I kind of liked the noise!). Boy does tend to OR and has tripped on boots before, I like how the petals can break off.
 
My sausage boot is hanging up in our barn, I had the "clacky" over reach boots, my sister's pony had a kineton noseband which was invaluable. Recently binned the old canvas rug which had been "moused".
 
Help me out here, how can eggbut snaffles be out of vogue when they're the fundamental, most basic bit? Isn't a "snaffle mouth" something to aspire to?
 
WindyStacks said:
Help me out here, how can eggbut snaffles be out of vogue when they're the fundamental, most basic bit? Isn't a "snaffle mouth" something to aspire to?
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I commented on this earlier - Im convinced a lot of people mean the joint in the middle, as in they are calling a single jointed snaffle an eggbutt... but i may stand corrected. Eggbutt is the cheek! Its either an eggbutt or loose ring snaffle!
 
FreshandMinty said:
I commented on this earlier - Im convinced a lot of people mean the joint in the middle, as in they are calling a single jointed snaffle an eggbutt... but i may stand corrected. Eggbutt is the cheek! Its either an eggbutt or loose ring snaffle!
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No I meant eggbutt as in with a hinge at the cheek not loose ringed .
 
At one point everyone had bridles , particularly for dressage, with white padding on the noseband and browband but they seem to have gone out of fashion now. I can't remember the last time I saw a pair of plaited leather reins either. I have a bridle that has been repaired, that's something I've not seen anywhere for a while. People just buy a new one now they can be bought cheap. I've noticed there seems to be a general reduction in the quality of leather though, even in some good quality English brands.
 
FreshandMinty said:
I commented on this earlier - Im convinced a lot of people mean the joint in the middle, as in they are calling a single jointed snaffle an eggbutt... but i may stand corrected. Eggbutt is the cheek! Its either an eggbutt or loose ring snaffle!
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Slightly worrying to think that people don't actually know what the eggbutt part of their bit actually is and that they think potentially think it is the joint. How on earth can they properly evaluate what sort of bit their horse requires if they don't understand the different parts of a bit.
 
flojo said:
I got mine from the local tack shop but you can get them online from Robinson's Equestrian.

It's a pet hate of mine to see full cheek/Fulmer bits without loops.
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You are not actually allowed to use fulmer loops in affiliated (and possibly some unaffiliated) dressage competitions
 
Quadro said:
I think people do know, but the loose ring has become more of the norm.
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yes, seems corrected i stand :D Im amazed though that eggbutts are seen as out of fashion, not one Id have guessed at all as we see loads, they are still common place, bread & butter tack. There have been many occasions though where people have referred to single joints as eggbutts - albeit not on this thread.
 
WindyStacks said:
Help me out here, how can eggbut snaffles be out of vogue when they're the fundamental, most basic bit? Isn't a "snaffle mouth" something to aspire to?
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I've never used a single jointed snaffle since I saw videos like this one. I like to think I have nice quiet hands, but it still made me feel slightly ill when I saw what it does in the mouth.

I had a beautiful show bridle when I was a kid. It had very narrow straps (the cheekpieces were about a quarter of an inch wide) and the browband and noseband had a subtle pattern stitched on. I wonder if it's a safety thing that you don't see that style any more?

Has anyone mentioned sheepskin nosebands? Probably lovely for the horse, but looked bizarre!
 
That video is repulsive (only made it 3 minutes in). That's not a tack issue, that's a rider issue and I am 100% positive that when you say you have light hands they are in no way imitating those shown!

It wouldn't matter which bit/strapped down nose-contraption those w*nkers used, they'd still be horrid riders!
 
alainax said:
Oh I remember one! Remember the "clencher" brass browbands? I never had one myself but every other horse at the yard I worked at wore one!

Havent seen one in years!

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I have the late lamented Jasper's Bridle, which not only has a brass clencher browband but also a matching noseband (cavesson) and very smart he looked in it too! Am hoping it will eventually fit the lovely Eric.
 
Has anyone mentioned sheepskin nosebands? Probably lovely for the horse, but looked bizarre!
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I use one on my horse for jumping. Not sure how much of a difference it makes to the head in the air situation but sure looks pretty :)

See them fairly regularly in eventing, and the odd showjumper, but mainly seems to be racehorses these days...
 
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