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Hi, t

English saddle, hunter-length (short billets) or endurance length  
(34-38" on medium length billets): the entire body of the buckle up  
on the sweat flap.  For long billets, most leather dressage girths  
have layers of protection behind the buckles.  With a string girth at  
that length, there generally isn't protection.

If the horse has a forward girth groove, rubs can happen despite the  
buckle being up on the flap.

Lynne

On Aug 31, 2005, at 2:56 PM, terre wrote:

>     Any "rules" on how long a girth should be?  To put it another  
> way, where should the rings/buckles sit?  Parallel to the point of  
> the shoulder?  Parallel to the heart?  How do you determine the  
> best length?
>
> terre (a friend's horse is being plagued by "rubs")


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