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[RC] Rose's girthy problem - Lucy Chaplin TrumbullJody:Now, I have tried, body glide, different saddles, neoprene, to keep the saddle back, the Bickman salve someone on a list suggested, vaseline, baby powder...and cursing... Something to check - is she rubbing on the girth, or on the buckle/trim on or near the buckle? My horse was having girthy problems too and after slathering him in Desitin (much to the delight of the vets - not), I finally figured out my problem was not the girth so much as where the buckle came (the clue came when I saw that the whole buckle area that I thought was "up high" was also covered in Desitin after the 75 he finished ouchily). I thought it was high enough not to cause a problem, but I was wrong. I ended up with a Wintec neoprene girth - waffly type of *tubular* design (rather than the "chafeless" shaped one that has trim). The fact that it's tubular means the edge is rounded with no trim to rub. Most importantly, I bought the girth two inches longer than we were using so the buckle came as high up his sides as I could manage (I had to punch some more holes in the billets): http://www.horse.com/products/sku-EGM11__id-30__scode-hfroogle.html hths Lucy Chaplin Trumbull elsietee AT foothill DOT net Repotted english person in the Sierra foothills, CA * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
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