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cobsarefab

cobsarefab

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Hi all,
So after having moved to a yard I've realised just how different everyone's tack is. I see leather things on a daily basis that I can't even name! So what do you have in different situations?
Hacking/in hand walks out attire:
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Work in the school:
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Just messing around/ can't be bothered to get saddle out:
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At work I have an exercise saddle, numerous pads, a martingale and a bridle that very rarely has a noseband on it. When it does it is a grackle. I sometimes wear said kit at home (minus the grackle) when I can't be bothered using my own tack. Other days I just put a piece of bailer twine on as a neck strap and a head slip, snaffle and reins. The less the better for me as I am generally too lazy to actually tack up unless I have to!

When I do do things properly at home it is show saddles and either simple full cheek snaffles for the breakers or pelhams/doubles for the more established ones.
 
Slightly off topic, but your saddles look to be sitting very far back. I know you've had issues with her not being keen to be sat on in the past, and wonder if this is why.

Back on topic. Dressage saddle and cavesson bridle with a plastic snaffle, plus boots. Lots and lots of boots.

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EKW said:
I sometimes wear said kit at home .
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I have a very strange picture in my head now :D


CaF, just a saddle, half wool cloth and girth and a plain snaffe bridle on each of mine.

Your mare looks as if she could do with a curved girth to bring the girth forward a bit? She's a sweet little thing, isn't she?
 
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Auslander said:
Slightly off topic, but your saddles look to be sitting very far back. I know you've had issues with her not being keen to be sat on in the past, and wonder if this is why.
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Hi, in both those pics the saddle was too far back. I did see that and rectify it. Sometimes it can be quite hard to tell with her though. She has been sat on now and was fine with it. :)
 
ycbm said:
I have a very strange picture in my head now :D


CaF, just a saddle, half wool cloth and girth and a plain snaffe bridle on each of mine.

Your mare looks as if she could do with a curved girth to bring the girth forward a bit? She's a sweet little thing, isn't she?
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She's actually just got a new girth to fit her 60 kilo thinner form. I think she's beautiful too though I may be biased. :D
 
Mines's been doing some in hand rehab road walking, she wears this gear. The roller has slipped back on T, too, I think that the quarter sheet must have pulled it back.

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For ridden work, it's the same bridle (with reins!) plus a GP event saddle, a shimmy half pad and a different quarter sheet.
 
You can’t see my tack. It’s filthy and needs a good clean! Nothing special, bridle no noseband, saddle no cloth. Plain that’s me!
 
Can't post photos as my laptop is in hospital getting repaired but -

Pony- GP Saddle, non slip saddle pad, martingale, bridle with blue sparkly browband and JW universal bit.

Gelding- GP saddle, Plain bridle with pelham and double reins, boots all round and an 'oh crap strap'

Mare- GP saddle, German hackamore and 3 point breast plate....she's hogged so breast plate is to give me something to grab hold of if necessary!...and fetlock boots. If we are going somewhere 'exciting' then she has a copper roller, full cheek snaffle and a martingale instead of the hackamore.
 
Sometimes mine looks like this:

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Sometimes he looks like this:

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My midget looks like this:

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I don't have a proper photo of my Captain Carrot pony but she wears this:

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With just a neck strap and her little brother's jumping saddle:

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JFTD that first photo is fab! My tack is really boring. Snaffles, cavesons and not much else! ( well apart from the Jesus strap on ponio...) :p



 
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alainax said:
JFTD that first photo is fab!
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It's very unmatchy. Purple saddle cloth, red reins, union flag boots, brown saddle, black bridle, darker brown breastplate. You put me right to shame with your smart black pony in matchy boots and saddlecloth!

And mine are all in snaffles and cavessons or loose (very loose!) drops too. Simplicity is wonderful.

(and neckstraps or breastplates for polocrosse, though I don't know why the latter...)
 
When we go out on the roads he looks like this, the carriage is covered in a variety of flashing lights as well:

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Anything else he looks like this:

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Its a Zilco harness and some fluffy harness pads because the big tough looking cob has very delicate skin! I'd really like some bling on his browband but its frowned upon so we've settled on a clencher browband instead
 
I don't have any fantastic pictures where you can get a proper idea, but when she's not in mummy mode, Mary has a Farrington WH saddle, cavesson bridle, and a full cheek eggbutt snaffle. We're also stuck with a boring black saddlecloth as it has adjustable inserts which the saddler recommended because of her age and the fact she was likely to change shape a lot, although we have a huge collection of more colourful options leftover from Tudor once she reaches maturity and is ready for them.

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Once upon a time, before I got her, she could also occasionally be found in a very different type of attire!

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Six can still be ridden too, even though my little sister is no longer particularly interested, and when he is, he has a Thorowgood saddle and a bitless bridle (Tudor used to have one too).

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For schooling it is micklem, simple French link snaffle, dressage saddle. Usually I have over reach boots on at home, and generally something around his legs, depending on what we're doing.

For hacking, there's a lot of hi vis and often the micklem gets swapped for a soft snaffle bridle with no noseband or a sidepull, depends on my mood. Have no picture of me hacking, but will endeavour to get one today.

If jumping then the micklem stays but the dressage saddle is swapped for an eventing/working hunter type of saddle. And we have just fetlock and overreach boots on then
 
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cobsarefab said:
Hi, in both those pics the saddle was too far back. I did see that and rectify it. Sometimes it can be quite hard to tell with her though. She has been sat on now and was fine with it. :)
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Ooh congratulations! Know you've had issues with pretty little cobbus in the past so really, really well done!! :)
 
Diva has a wintec 500 GP wide saddle (currently with a 2XW gullet because she's wider than most picnic tables
��). Her bridle is a black raised aviemore one, (sadly leather, which irks me no end as I'm vegetarian) with a headcollar noseband attached to the cheekpieces and the reins attached to that.... Though for the most part I've not been using it because I always forget to bring it up so just attach a lunge line or lead ropes for reins to the headcollar. Which isn't the recommended setup for backing a horse at all of course! There is a roller up there but D'S lost so much weight it doesn't fit anymore with her current girth. I will throw on random hi vis just for field work too so she gets used to it and she always wears go vis boots, noseband, and breastplate for for when we go walkies. Much to my mothers disgust my 'quirky' new forest does most things in a loose fitting headcollar now (she hates tight ones as she had a scar on her nose and they press on it.) oh, and I have a neckstrap which I loooooove!!!!
I do have photos of everything somewhere if this makes no sense...
 
Don't have any photos at the moment as not sure what's going to fit my new youngster. My last horse had a thorowgood t6 saddle on the widest setting with a rhinegold padded headpiece cavesson bridle :)
Your cob looks lovely OP, so glad that you've managed to overcome problems with her, and agree that you should do an update thread with lots of photos :D
 
Not sure how to do photos, but I have several leather saddles, couple of dressage and a couple of endurance ones, my bridles are biothane different colours varying from different blues, green and blue, black,red and white and purple and green, not everyone's taste but in endurance they are a god send!
 
Leo Walker said:
Now that warrants a thread all of its own! :biggrin3:

I recognise the tack in your pic. They must have been chosen by someone with impeccable taste :lol:
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It was, and she loves it so thank you very much. Did have a lot of clucking for "ruining" the bridle by attatching the cheek pieces to the noseband because she can't be bitted :lol:
 
cobsarefab said:
It was, and she loves it so thank you very much. Did have a lot of clucking for "ruining" the bridle by attatching the cheek pieces to the noseband because she can't be bitted :lol:
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Before I got my bitless nosebands for Tudor and Six, I 'ruined' my bridles in exactly the same way. It didn't do them any harm in the long-run though.
 
Alfie in his Aviemore snaffle bridle with D ring copper roller bit
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and ancient photo of him in the WORLD'S COMFIEST SADDLE EVER. No idea on brand or anything and it's ancient but sooooo comfortable for everyone (ponies & people)
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The girls in their usual set ups because I am lazy and they are absolute sweet hearts and happily work off just my voice because they are the most intelligent, affectionate, beautiful mares in the world (not that I'm biased or anything lmao :p ) ...
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I don't make them work 'correctly' on the lunge though at the moment, they're too unfit and the ground is too rough but a few times a month I will lunge like this for ten minutes or so to make sure they remember the voice commands and keep their brains ticking over with lots and lots and lots of transitions.
I have quite an extensive headcollar collection but do pretty much everything in Diva's trusty teal number.
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Bad photo of the wintec
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hi vis "sidepull"
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brown "sidepull":
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Rainbow sidepull:
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just to prove i did used to do things "properly" lol
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