please could someone check my turnout is correct?

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Any help would be greatly appreciated as I've never done a ridden class. :o
So far this is what I have:

Me:
Tweed Jacket
Brown gloves
Cream shirt with navy tie (or Yellow shirt and red tie)
Beige breeches
Black long boots
Navy velvet hat (or Black skull cap with black silk)
Spurs (if needed)

Beau (Tack and Turnout class and Riding Club horse class)

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Hunter bridle with pelham
Beige numnah
Leather girth
Jump saddle

Jerry (Equitation)

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Hunter bridle with pelham
black fluffy half-pad
Leather girth
Jump saddle

Timbi (Best show horse)

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Padded raised bridle with fulmer snaffle (in the picture)
Black numnah
Leather girth
Jump saddle

I'm not sure if I would be better in a navy jacket with Timberland seeing as he's more of a riding horse type?
Any help greatly appreciated. :)
 
My only query is that around here riding club horse is usually snaffles?

Ignore me if your intending on affiliated showing as I know nothing about that!
 
Ok for rider everything sounds fine but go for the yellow shirt with red tie and definitely navy velvet hat.

For the horses.

Beau in the Tack and Turnout pelham is fine but as said above check the schedule for the RC horse as sometimes it needs to be a snaffle. Leather girth and saddle fine but I would go for a numnah that matches your saddle not a beige one.

Jerry sounds fine.

Timbi ideally you would need a plain hunter bridle with a flat cavesson and pelham like the other two. saddle girth and numnah sound fine. You should be in tweed from that pic I would say he looks a lightweight hunter but even if turned out as a riding horse you would still wear tweed.
 
Riding horse is fine in a pelham unless its a novice class?

Pet hate for me is stirrup leathers - let them hang freely from the bar - don't tuck them into the keepers for showing.
 
I can't find a lot of info online but the schedules the search pulled up all say snaffles only.

I'm going to swap Beau and Timbi's classes round - I'll take Timberland into the Riding Club Horse and Beau into the Best Show Horse (and maybe the novice combo class). I can jump Timbi in a snaffle without any issues.

RTE - it's Grass Roots and thank you for the tip. :)
 
A rugby pelham would look better than a standard one, but don't forget to use a slip head and buckle it on the off side. Also a lip strap


I personally don't like fluffy half pads in showing. The numnah should be as unobtrusive as possible and matched to the saddle.
 
Back in the olden days when I was a child we used to used a chamois leather under the saddle, it kept the saddle clean and worked as a non slip pad, great with small round ponies. You just pop it on the back like a polypad and trim off any bits that stick out
 
you learn something every day :)

Two of my saddles have serge panels (nightmare) otherwise I'd just stick the saddles on without a numnah. I might try that chamois trick
 
well that's the horses bathed and trimmed - I think I got more water/shampoo on me than on them. :p
All of my tack is clean (stirrup leathers not in the keepers ;) ) so all I have to do tomorrow is wash their legs again and plait.

Im feeling far too organised :p
 
Thistle said:
A rugby pelham would look better than a standard one, but don't forget to use a slip head and buckle it on the off side. Also a lip strap
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My instructor - also a judge - swears that a sliphead is completely incorrect / superfluous for a rugby pelham... I go along with this for a peaceful life, although one day I will ask for an explanation.

Agree on the lipstrap point - and I would always use a leather curb.
 
arizonahoney said:
My instructor - also a judge - swears that a sliphead is completely incorrect / superfluous for a rugby pelham... I go along with this for a peaceful life, although one day I will ask for an explanation.

Agree on the lipstrap point - and I would always use a leather curb.
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The late, great, Miss Dawn Dodd Noble of Sandon Saddlery lectured me about the use of slip heads and lip straps.

She had forgotten more about saddlery in her life time than I will ever hope to know?
 
A rugby Pelham must be used with a head strap.
Standard Pelhams are perfectly acceptable too and often look less cluttered.
 
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