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- How to Know When Your Saddle is a Problem?
- Our intent is to provide horse lovers with essential information that deals with saddle problems. In this way, owners or riders can properly evaluate their horse’s signs and behavior as it relates to certain kinds of problems. As a result, you will know better what is causing your horse's problems and what you can do to improve riding comfort for both horse and rider.
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- Bits
- Many people believe that if their horse is not responding, they should get a stronger bit -- WRONG! A harsh bit in the wrong hands can do serious damage to your horse and set your training program way back. If we could only have one bit for any horse it would definitely be a snaffle of some type. Young and inexperienced horses need to be able to bend to varying degrees so the use of a direct reining device such as a snaffle is very important.
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- Check Your Bit Fit
- Proper bit fit is necessary in every riding discipline. When a bit does not fit a horse's mouth properly, bad habits or injuries may result. If the horse has any scars or open cuts or rubs on his lips or tongue, this means he has had bit abuse. Many times this happens when an unknowledgeable rider has used a bit that does not fit properly or comfortably in the horse's mouth. If you suspect either injury in your horse's mouth, and/or an ill-fitting bit, please read our checklist below.
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- Check Your Bit Fit!
- Proper bit fit is necessary in every riding discipline. When a bit does not fit a horse's mouth properly, bad habits or injuries may result. If the horse has any scars or open cuts or rubs on his lips or tongue, this means he has had bit abuse. Many times this happens when an unknowledgeable rider has used a bit that does not fit properly or comfortably in the horse's mouth. If you suspect either injury in your horse's mouth, and/or an ill-fitting bit, please read our checklist below.
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- Cleaning and Protecting Leather
- is very important to care for your leather items from the first day you buy them. The most important reason to keep good care of your leather items is safety. If you do not care for your leather equipment well enough, it may crack or peel, or fall apart at the seams while you are riding or using it.
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- Cleaning and protecting your leather horse equipment
- It is very important to care for your leather items from the first day you buy them. The most important reason to keep good care of your leather items is safety. If you do not care for your leather equipment well enough, it may crack or peel, or fall apart at the seams while you are riding or using it.
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- Don't Squeeze the Best Out of Your Horse! A study linking girth tightness with performance.
- Current practices for fitting a saddle prior to competition is to tighten the girth to a level that does not allow the saddle to slip. The effects of a tight girth on the performance of the horse has not previously been studied but some horse trainers have suggested that a very tight girth reduces the performance of horses. Researchers from the Mornington Peninsula Horse Hospital and The University of Melbourne Veterinary Clinical Centre have conducted a study that looks at the exercise capacity of horses in respect to how tightly the girth is done up
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- How to best fit a western saddle on your horse
- To fit a western saddle you must first measure your horse. You can't call a tack shop and tell them you need a regular or wide tree and expect it to fit just like that. Each saddle manufacturer has its own way of measuring saddles and they all are different. Even in the manufacturers themselves as most saddles are made by hand not by machines. This especially changes in a used saddle because they stretch with use.
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- How to best fit an English Saddle on your horse
- I have put this information together to aid and assist you in searching for a saddle and to help you to take care of it once you get it. I hope this will help you in a most often frustrating job!! These ideas will not guarantee your saddle will fit but I hope it will help you in getting alot closer to it!!
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- How to Cinch a Bob Marshall Sports Saddle?
- The most common mistake with girthing this saddle is with using the English billet strap method, which is simply to put the buckle into a hole of the cinch strap. That method will not get the cinch tightened enough to keep the saddle on the horse securely. Also, trying to finish the end of the cinch strap with a western knot doesn't work either because the D ring isn't big enough to accomodate the knot. The knot is sometimes referred to as the Texas T, bow tie or western knot.
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- Loud Bits Destory Communication
- A lot of people think you train horses with equipment. This is one of the biggest MythUnderstandings out there. Try this bit, try that bit. If those don't work, try a thinner bit or one with a longer shank. If those don't work, tie that sucker's head down or crank him in with draw reins.
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- Mecate Reins
- Traditional Mecate reins (pronounced either muh-caw-tee or McCarty) are made from horse hair, but can also be made from nylon double braid marine rope. These reins are normally between 20-22 feet long. Donüt worry, you wonüt have to figure out what to do with an extra 15 feet of rein. Approximately 8-10 feet are used for the rein and the remaining 10-12 feet are used as a lead rope or popper when in the saddle. The mota is the thing at the other end of the rope (from the popper) which has the knot or cluster of horse hair and tassle on it.
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- Meet Sports Saddle's Bob Marshall
- I have had over twenty-five years experience in both saddle making and horse training. The Sports Saddle has evolved from decades of experience working with some of the top horse trainers and saddle makers in the United States. At the present time, we not only build a large number of traditional leather saddles in our shop but also build custom saddle trees for some of the most accomplished saddle makers in the trade. We have many years experience in designing not only saddles and saddle trees but also with custom fitting saddle trees to many problem horses that were hard to fit.
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- Misbehaving While Saddling
- There are many reasons a horse may try to bite or misbehave while saddling. I will outline 3 of the most common reasons below, along with tips for re-training your horse to accept saddling better. It will be your responsibility to find out which reason may apply to your horse and train him accordingly
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- Open Mouth for Bit
- Ever try to bridle up only to have your horse refuse to open his mouth for the bit? You pull up on the bridle and the bit bangs around the horses teeth and he begins throwing his head around. Any of this sound familiar? Then this months tip is for you. After this lesson, your horse will open wide for you anytime you give him the cue.
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- Saddle Construction and Checking Used Saddles
- At its most simplistic, a saddle is merely a seat for the rider with cushioning for the horse. Most English saddles and Continental
saddles are just variations on a manufacturing theme developed over many years. There are notable exceptions but these will
not be covered in this article.
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- Saddle Sore?
- It happens to the best of riders in the best of saddles. Painful saddle sores. I didn%u2019t realize this myself until I personally tried over 40 saddles, panty hose, bike hose, no hose (ouch), Vaseline and Bodyglide to keep me from chaffing during my rides. After little or no success with any of these, I was forced to invent Saddle Bums just for my own protection. Once National Cutting Champion Bobby Nelson said to me, %u201CSaddle Bums Saved My A%u2014%u201C! I knew that what I created was really working.
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