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Hello Peggy,
I just got back from the Tejon Ranch 50 that was last Sat. What a 
beautiful place to ride. Since your horse's soreness in the girth 
area cleared up so quickly I am guessing the problem was just the 
steepness of those Tejon hills. Maybe the extra pressure and pulling 
behind the elbows on those steep downhills was more than your horse 
was used to and made her sore? I saw many horses taking very short 
"baby steps" walking those steep downhills which indicated to me that 
they were not happy about it including mine but he had no soreness. A 
crupper might help. Of course the best solution on those really steep 
downhills is to get off and walk since the horse can't go fast anyway 
and lord knows I need the exercise :'(. I have used a Professionals 
Choice elastic girth like this 
http://www.profchoice.com/htmldocs/prd/english/prd/dg.html for 8 
years now (I have 4 of them) and have had no girth issues on 2 
horses. I don't think you need a different girth since on all the 
other rides she was just fine.

Don Huston


At 10:44 AM 11/27/2007 Tuesday, you wrote:
> I've been reading about girth galls, but I have another problem.
> My mare in the last multiday I did, got so sore on her girth area, 
> that you couldn't touch her there. I had to pull the 2nd day of the 
> Tejon Fandango because she was so sore I couldn't tighten the girth 
> - not that I would when she was like that.
> I'm using the same saddle and girth, a Toklat fleece-backed with 
> elastic ends and the same saddle I have used successfully for many 
> multi-days. She has no back soreness at all.
> As sore as she was, she was totally fine by that evening. I have 
> people telling me to try another type of girth, but what? I'm 
> wondering what kind to try - I could end up buying 20 girths, all 
> with the same outcome.
> Has anyone ever had a problem like this?
>
>
> Peggy Bergman-Smith

Don Huston
donhuston @ cox.net
SanDiego, Calif 



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