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Re: [RC] Using breast collars on flat trails... - Lynne Glazer

Right on, Heidi, have shared that experience and infinitely prefer owning well-conformed horses.

OTOH, I started using a breast collar a few years ago after Debby Lyon's wreck at Tevis. My horses have good backs, withers, girth grooves that aren't in the armpit and I'd come back from rides with daylight showing and no saddle movement, so nothing was truly "wrong".

But in the "anything can happen" sense that has me wearing a helmet as well, I think a loosely adjusted b.c. is cheap insurance--and because I'm part of a saddle co., don't want people to think that anyone riding in one can get along without a b.c.

FWIW, I saw some horrendous saddling issues late into the recent Swanton ride. Riders came by on a slight hill (and couldn't see me with my long lens), and I saw WAY too many saddles sitting back on the horse's butt. Maybe I'll put up a web page with the rider's faces and #s blurred out. I speculate that many of these people don't even know they have a problem. Breast collars tight AND the crupper tight! The saddles simply don't fit. Awful.

Lynne

On Thursday, August 14, 2003, at 06:08 AM, Heidi Smith wrote:

It has been my experience that
when one has horses with properly conformed backs (getting harder and harder
to find these days), a properly fitting saddle stays put, pretty much no
matter what you do, even if the girth is considerably loose. I've come in
from chasing cows in our "vertical" central Idaho terrain to find my girth
with an inch of air between it and my horse's belly--and will have never had
the saddle budge.


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