Re: Breast Collars

[Susan Evans Garlinghouse <suendavid@worldnet.att.net>]

suzy kelley wrote:
> 
> This is what a friend of mine was told the other day:
> 
> Breast collars impead your horse's forward motion and interfer with their
> shoulders.  If you use a breast collar in an endurance ride, it will make
> you horse lame!
> 
> What do you think?????


If you ride up a steep hill with NO breast collar and a neoprene girth,
your saddle slides back to somewhere around the horse's tailhead and you
spend the entire afternoon getting off, swearing horribly, resaddling,
getting back on, only to repeat it all over again every thirty seconds
until you finally get to the top of the hill sometime around next June.

This also impedes forward motion.

Lameness occurs to rider when horse, getting frustrated by all this
nonsense, starts spinning in circles and trampling the rider as the rest
of the pack sweeps grandly past, all of THEM wearing breastcollars, and
all of them inquiring kindly, as though speaking to a retarded child (as
well they should), "why the hell didn't you put on a breast collar?"

Susan Garlinghouse
The Queen of Been There and Done That and Bloody Well Won't Do It Again