People with dressage type stirrup leathers...

[kit279]

.. how do you put them up so they don't scratch your saddle? At the moment, I have to sling each stirrup over the seat and it marks it a bit. Is there a magic trick I don't know? Mine are webber type dressage leathers with the T-bar fastenings.

 

[posie_honey]

can you run up the stirrups as you do normal stirrups then fix the tbar at the top hole near thestirrup bar?

 

[criso]

I have the Jeffries leathers and they have a hole near the top on its own for you hook the T bar into when not in use.

I don't unhook them from the usual hole, but put the t bar in that hole which then leaves the stirrups at about the right postion.

Sorry quite difficult to explain so not sure if it is clear.

 

[Pasha]

Yep me too (Bates - so guess would be the same as Wintec synthetic ones?) have a little hole at the tip to hook the bar onto

 

[Azabache]

Yep. I have the Bates ones too, but I'm sure my friend has the wintec ones which has a hole at the top too.

 

[Three]

I just slide mine off the stirrup bar and put them back on when needed.

 

[CastleMouse]

Ditto Three - I find that the stirrup irons can also mark the leather though...

 

[Vixxy]

I always take them off my saddle especially beneficial in winter when my irons get wet sand off the school all over them.

Takes no time at all and my saddle never gets horrible marks ;-)

 

[hannahealasaid]

run up the front then hook t bar in! X