what horsey product do you ever regret buying?

Fulmer Snaffled Use it About 3 times and my horse was far to strong and ran away with me :) so got a brand new fulmer in the tack room :)
and so many grooming kits have about 4 grooming boxes for one horse lol :)
 
Ditto the wintec :p no matter how much its tailered it will never fit a high withered horse :mad: and is it just me or are the stirrup bars really far back!!!
 
CHEAP robinsons bridles!
why oh why did I buy about 6 useless bridles, when I only use my stubben one for everyday and my jeffiries one for showing-
Any cheap showing reins, swear to god they're ripping at the buckles :P
HUGE lickit set, which pippa ate in about 2 minutes, and was dangerously hyper
:D
ahh the joys of the equestrian market ;)
 
off the top of my head...

a jolly ball..... none of my lot got their head around it
a passoa...... old boy kind of got the concept, but both him and current mare hate it.
 
... a show rainsheet thing, meant to go over fancy show rugs (was clear). Was SO noisy, couldn't get it anywhere the horse!
... an australian cheeker noseband to keep his bit still xc, first and only outing was asked (loudly) why my horse was wearing a bondage mask?!
... weatherbeeta and masta rugs, they never last more than a week or so whereas I have 11 year old fals and rambos still going strong
 
My Equissage! Great bit of kit, but it is just sitting there doing nothing.

I would sell it - but then i think i would want to use it again!


Should anyone want to rehome any of these unused mylers or pessoas do pm me!
 
Cavello dressage boots... SO uncomfortable went back to my 'cheapo' ones within a month. The leather is so stiff I couldn't feel the sides of my horse thru them...

Blitz

Oh and a back protector that went obsolete within 6 months of buying it...

Humph
 
Stock pins - I have about 8 of them, all bent and never really 'good' at their job. One day I will get a good one, but for now I can't help but getting cheap ones....
 
Likits. After buying a few and my mare standing and demolishing them in about 5 minutes flat, I gave up and just bought the licks in tubs.

Pink/yellow/green foam on her chest was not a good look :rolleyes:
 
Another Robinsons Bridle hater!! Small Pony size still massively too big, have now got a kincade one and thats awful too - the browband was huge, and the noseband rubs - lucky she is a broodie now! Also, a Cottage Craft fly sheet for the little one - ****!!!! The chest is so big its baggy on my 14.2 Fell, the integral neck so short and tight it only goes half way up and round her show pony neck! Rubbish!!
 
ditto the cheap rugs, bought a cheap fly rug last year lasted two days, first day horse got it off, second day it was attached to the fence torn in two! cheap rain sheet rubs her shoulder!
 
Yet another polypad!! WHY did I need another? (I didn't) - now I'm not using them anymore as am using something else, so this one will probably end up for the dogs bed. Also I bought a bright fluorescent green combination bridle as I half thought I might do TREC, and its soooo bright that I'm half scared to go out with it on!
 
Mine is a pair of sticky bum jobs from saxon, the sticky bum material on the backside and legs is so stiff when i move it actually pulls them down!!! Buried in the back of the wardrobe so OH doesnt know i wasted money!!!!!!
 
Hay ball. Absolutely useless. It springs apart with light normal use, & the plastic bits at the top & bottom snap v easily.

Would say jolly ball as one was knocking around the field for 10 years with various horses not even faintly interested in it...but then we got a Rottie & he absolutely loves it to bits. So much so that I recently got him another one as the first one finally died after over a year of hard daily play.
 
Gosh, where to start?

Numerous bits in all different sizes - just collecting dust on wall hooks
Equilibrium turnout chaps - never used, in bags somewhere
wall mounted likit holders - several of them around the place somewhere
Nuumed numnahs - they kept changing the pattern and I didn't realise til we'd used them - piles of them.
Belgrade breeches - not so sticky bum and too short for me
Mini quad for my daughter - still not used.
Mountains for rugs - none a good fit - all off to the local horse rescue shortly
Dressage marker cones for the field - still unused
3 horse Vans Fautras trailer - love it but don't use it
Collapsible fabric water bucket - what was I thinking?
Hay bag for carrying one small bale - never used
Regent leather long boots - never did fit and only wore once - collecting dust.

I could go on. Truth is I'm so broke right now I ought to get on and somehow sell it all, if only i could get my act together ;)
 
i love nuumed high wither numnahs ;)

another vote for the wintec. also rhinegold rugs ( cut so badly, never again )

cottage craft anything. once bought a bit from them that snapped the first time i used it. straight bar happy mouth.
 
i got some pink jhods while i was at riding school i thought they were pretty cool for a wile but now hacking out with my pony i feel like a twit seriously only buy them if ur about 10 or under lol
a colourful hat silk yet again i look ridiculous hacking about in it lol
cheap fly rug fits great etc but my pony ripped it to shreds and flys can get in!
 
We need an online horsey car boot sale!!

Just want to say to the person who posted about the race safe BP - I've had to get my daugther's zip fixed several times. Wonder if it's a design fault. Shame as they are one of the nicer BP's around and for the money, shouldn't break so easily!
 
Rhinegold rugs - rip so easily and cut really, really badly
fleece rug from lidl - cut to fit a camel, awful quality too
fleece bandages - why???
a solocomb - in the days before I knew better!!
 
roo2012 said:
HAAAAhahahaha!

Great thread, liking it a lot.

Weatherbeater Taka when they first came out. £130 and it was rubbish, leaked from day 1.

Myler bit. It was the mildest one they do and it pinched my hand when I picked it up. I should never have put it in horse's mouth, but I did and he hated it.

About a million stable rugs, when I hardly ever stable my horses and if I do they only need a waffle rug anyway!
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I don't think I have ever bought any mistakes as such. I have acquired a fairly extensive and expensive bit collection but it has been over the years and with a variety of horses so feel they have paid for themselves.

I am however, guilty of the "buy another jacket" I tell myself I will chuck out a truly elderly one but never do and have almost a coat rail now of different jackets. If I said I have only just given up and sent to charity my rainbow coloured puffa, you can understand how bad the habit is!
 
pricklyflower said:
We need an online horsey car boot sale!!

Just want to say to the person who posted about the race safe BP - I've had to get my daugther's zip fixed several times. Wonder if it's a design fault. Shame as they are one of the nicer BP's around and for the money, shouldn't break so easily!
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Ah if I'm perfectly honest...I think it's more my design fault than the body protectors! I got it when I was 16, I'm now 20...waist wise not much different, top wise...considerably different! LOL.

Never had a problem with it through out college when I had to wear it.
 
Bungee side reins - Bought them for someone at the yard who then decided they weren't what she wanted, so have been lying unopened for 4 years.
Grazing muzzle - minty got it off within 5 mins of it being on, did it 3 times on the trot so has been in a box for 3 years.
lots of sets of reins, nosebands, other leather bits and bobs never been used.

as for those who bought pink jods and don't like them, why don't you just dye them. I bought really horrible lilac ones in a sale and dyed them navy :D
 
My mum used to be a saddler- she made her living on adjusting pony bridles!!!
Rhinegold rugs- what kind of horse do they actually fit???
Likit- Agree demolished in seconds or not touched at all
Wintec sadle- bought it cheap and use/abuse for breaking but i agree about the stirrup bars, it puts me in the wrong position.
Cheap reins- i have about 10 pairs a black reins, one cheap pair broke before a jump off, luckily there was tack shop on site, but I dont want to repeat that again!
One of those endurance hats for hacking in- i looks like a bike hat, i have 'lost' it! lol
also chambons and other gadgets to lunge my horse in- he seems to manage to evade every single one- waste of time!
I have wasted my money on a lot more stuff too, fake poly pads that slip, throwood saddles, snakaballs ....
 
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