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Re: [RC] [RC] Cruppers? - Karen SullivanI have tried a few cruppers and now the only ones I will use are the ones made by Gail Hought of Hought endurance tack...all the moulded neoprene-type ones just see too hard, or are shaped too narrow for the width of the tail. Gail makes a very comfortable crupper which is three-fold soft leather over biothane, so it takes on the shape of the tail, with leather against the skin.... I even sent her a zilco crupper and had her replace the tail part with her leather three fold.... I have all my horses in a crupper; consider it a piece of safety equipment....as we do a lot of hills. I start them with the crupper by making sure I can slide my hand under their tail without them freaking out; some nice scratching....then I saddle and put them in stall with goodies in a feeder....slip crupper under tail but unfastened.....a couple of times to get them used to whole idea..then loosely buckled while they are saddled and eating.....to leaving it on while ponied, etc. I have it a bit snug, as when they are moving usually their tails are lifted a bit.... Seems to be working well for all of them... Karen On 8/30/07, heidi larson <ribbitttreefrog@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: I like the neoprene ones that Moss Rock Endurance has and my horse had his put on while lunging, very loose, a few bucks and it seemed fine, rode in it on the flat, totally loose, kept reaching back and grabbing and tighting myself, no reaction, went to some slight downhill, still loose, no reaction, then tigher and steeper and he never really seemed to care. Two horses have been trained to cruppers that way. They seem to not mind if you do the training incrementally. heidi --- "Debbie K." <dakota.charm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hello, Can you guys give me tips on using cruppers with an endurance saddle, my saddle is slipping on downhills, so I think I need to get a crupper, I have used them years ago for driving and with a bitting rig, So I think I remember how to introduce one for the first time, but that is about it, how tight do I have it, how much weight can a rider be when using a Crupper? Is there a better one or style that I should get??? Thank you... -- Debbie in MN ~ Please check out how we can all help raise money for Huginn's Hospital Fund ~ http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgtrq74d_386xtqp ~~~~~~~~~~~If we all do a little, we will have a lot!!!!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!!=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545433 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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