Shopping help please - riding crops!

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A family member has recently started taking riding lessons again and is working hard to improve. (sickeningly doing very well too :p ) To support him I would like to buy him a really nice riding crop for his birthday or Christmas - he has very expensive tastes but I think that I could find him a posh one, preferably in leather. I have been looking around online (no access to a tack shop in the next few weeks) and you can imagine what comes up on google ;) I've found one or two options but none that scream 'perfect' to me, so I thought I would ask on here in case anyone knows of a good make.

So, I want a high quality and expensive-looking crop, in traditional colours. Perhaps something similar to a hunting crop?
Budget £40 max

Thank you in advance for any ideas!
 
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A handmade belt from http://www.bucklehurstleather.co.uk, in a nice box
You need to find the measurement which is NOT the waist measurement but is related to the comfortable length of the belt to the buckle [waistband] plus the other "tail"
Ian Atkinson has some good work,
http://ianatkinson.net/leather/belts.htm

as has Nigel Armitage, I think he makes to order.

High end leather belts are understated.
 
chillipup said:
Is it really appropriate for a person who is learning to ride again, to carry and/or use a crop?
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Perhaps I have understated his level - he is streets ahead of most on riding school horses. I would happily put him on my horse now if he were lighter - his ultimate aim is to get out hunting and I don't think he's far off being perfectly safe in the field. I wouldn't imagine he would need to use a crop that much, but most I know carry one for hacking and I think it is a nice thing to have.

Exploding Chestnuts said:
Not a hunting crop, he will look a right fool!
and to be honest , well I think that you would be better to ring the Riding Academy he goes to and ask them, I think good gloves are a safer bet.
https://www.macwet.com/
http://www.equestrian.com/c/mens/mens-riding-wear/mens-riding-gloves/
these could work, I can't find really super ones, but there must be some
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mango-Wood...031_1_4?s=shoes&ie=UTF8&qid=1481071970&sr=1-4
http://www.dubarryboots.com/boot-jack
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I think I mean a Working Hunter crop taking a look at the links above - see this is why I need you lot, when I buy one for me I just get a bog standard one so I'm completely unfamiliar with the terms!

ThursdayNext said:
Not on a horse... But reading between the lines I'd imagine OP will take some pleasure from it...
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The family member in question is my brother.... :o
 
chillipup said:
Is it really appropriate for a person who is learning to ride again, to carry and/or use a crop?
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I think it's important for even a beginner to learn how to carry a crop from the off, including the correct use etc.



I have a Mushroom top plaited whip from Fylde, lovely whip, still looks new after 6 years of showing
 
Xmas Cracker said:
I think it's important for even a beginner to learn how to carry a crop from the off, including the correct use etc.
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I learnt to ride (am learning to ride, one hopes to always be learning!) as an adult and I definitely learnt more about clear aides in the place that didn't have dead-to-the-leg animals and didn't allow any clients to carry sticks. I honestly don't know how I'd have coped going from the more traditional RS type set ups where one is encouraged to smack everything 'to get it listening' to a (privately owned sensitive and intelligent Arabian) share. Plus, it is just a miserable experience hitting an animal with a stick becasue you can't find a better way to cooperate.

To my mind the correct use is basically never (except for side saddle where it is just pretending to be your other leg) though so that obviously colours my view.
 
OP, if he is going hunting later, then a decent hunting whip could go on future shopping lists (a nice one isn't usually cheap, but you can get old ones refurbished and new lashes/thongs put on).
I hack most of the time with mine, very useful for gates - and seeing off nuisance cur dogs :)
 
To me a crop is a short stick with a horn handle at right angles and I would never carry it under non hunting conditions, unless there are hunt gates.
A whip is a longer thinner affair, carried to straighten up a horse deviating from a true course, or sharpen up his response to leg aids.
 
I realised that I never updated this so thought I would inform you of my choice:
https://www.fyldesaddleryltd.com/product.php/working_hunter_whip/?k=:::3630095:0

Thank you to those who made suggestions - they were fantastic and spoiled me for choice. It was also nice to avoid any further googling for riding whips :D We went for the Fylde working hunter crop and it is perfect - beautifully made and very special, yet still practical. I realised my mistake in this particular gift the moment brother unwrapped it and started chasing our other brother, our cousins and I around the kitchen with it. No matter how old we get we never really grow up do we?
 
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