running martingale pics

[emmanash]

please can you lovely people post some pics of your horses in their running martingales so I can see how loose/tight they should be.
Never fitted one before and I put it on my horse today and thought it looked too loose
Thanks in advance.
Also any advice on fitting it would be welcomed

 

[Enfys]

I have probably been doing it wrong for the past 30 years but I was taught that when the martingale was on, the 'arms' should reach the withers thus being at the level a horse should ideally carry his head without resistance and not coming into action until the head is raised.

 

[vicksey]

I was taught that too

 

[Enfys]

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I was taught that too

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*phew*

 

[Sarah Sum1]

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I have probably been doing it wrong for the past 30 years but I was taught that when the martingale was on, the 'arms' should reach the withers thus being at the level a horse should ideally carry his head without resistance and not coming into action until the head is raised.

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Your horse is so beautiful! he looks like a cross between a unicorn and a rocking horse!

 

[Enfys]

Oh, Thankyou!

Unicorn and rocking horse, actually you hit the nail on the head. He was too pretty by far to be a boy really and he was seriously comfy, he specialised in piaffe. I loved that horse to bits, even if he was an equine Victor Meldrew!

 

[emmanash]

Thank you Enfys I shall try again tommorrow.

 

[sam72431]

I was told as well that the rings should reach the horses chin without the part around the neck having to move.

 

[kezimac]

i was always told the rings should reach under the chin when head at a normal level