Which side does your horses mane fall on?

Section B, and his naturally falls on the nearside, so I am constantly trying to come up with a way to train it over!
 
:D All my lots manes fall on the near side except one and his falls equally both sides. :cool: I wonder if the near side is the most common way manes fall? Call me odd but to me the way that they fall naturally is the correct way. Of course in the show ring there are different rules horses have to adhere to. :D
Wonder where it came from?
 
With my youngsters (Hanoverians, Oldenburgs, TBs, AQHAs) I always train their manes to the offside. I start from when they are very young and as most of mine end up in competition homes, it just makes it easier for the owners if they already get a youngster with the mane on the correct side. You wouldn't believe the amount of buyers who comment positively on this too so it's worth that little bit of effort I feel.
 
All except one on the right/off side, with a bit of help to keep the stray bits over - anglo arab, TB, British WB, TBxshire, 2 random ponies. One small and unruley pony has masses of unruley mane everywhere.
 
near side... Andalusian and ISH i dont really mind what side it falls on tbh i dont show them or plait them up for shows so doesnt bother me :) sometimes the ISH's mane falls both sides as its quite thick :)
 
One of each, both section D.

The one with it falling on the 'wrong' side has by far the nicer mane. No point trying to alter it now, so just give it a little pull to smarten it up. I'm not worried about it.
 
Half and half.

I actually prefer plaiting manes that fall to the left, as you get more lift as you bring them over to plait up on the correct side. I do dressage plaits, rather than hunter though - f it was the latter, I would probably be less impressed with a left falling mane
 
Connie x tb, off side, always has done. Mini x on the nearside.
I wonder what the original reason for off side being correct is? I wonder if its something to do with stopping it getting tangled with cavalry swords, scabbards etc?
 
That might be it Littlelegs, I suppose you'd use want to use your best hand when wielding a sword!

I guess it is best to have all the horses with manes on one side when they go round the ring, then you can compare their necks and overall shape without the mane in the way.

Thanks Haffiesrock I think it is rather fabulous whatever it does :-)
 
Not so much using the sword, but the fact anyone right handed would have the sword hanging down on the nearside, & you wouldn't want to be trying to untangle it from a load of mane mid battle.
 
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