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Out of curiosity, which Toklat pad was tested?  Was it double thickness, 
triple thickness and with or without inserts?

A friend of mine brought me her new equipedic pad to try out.  It has the 
same inserts my toklats have, but they are thicker.  I'm going to borrow a 
temp gauge (one of Roger's) and see what temps I get on two or three of my 
horses with the two different pads.  Is there anything I need to 
know?  Obviously I'm going to ride the horses in the same conditions, which 
shouldn't be a problem being that I've got a GPS and heart monitor.  Oh, 
and a heavyweight rider, so we can test more than one horse/pad combination 
per day maybe and see also if there are any differences between my weight 
and another 100 pounds. ;)

One reason why I like the toklats so well and have always used them is 
because they are reversible.  I like to always have a clean pad on my 
horses back, and if I am alternating horses on a multiday it's easy to 
reverse the same pad, or even if I am riding the same horse on a 5 day ride 
then I can reverse the pad and get twice as many days use out of it without 
needing more than one.  That also means it gets washed half as 
often.  Would it be practical for the equipedic pad to be made so it would 
be reversible?  I always punch holes in the front of the pads and attach 
clips to clip to the D's on my saddle so the pads won't migrate 
around.  That would make it a whole lot more appealing to me.

Karen

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