Ridecamp: Re: [RC] kids stirrups

Hi Kathy
Don't know if they make them for Western saddles, but I got some 
stirrups for my kids, when they were small, that ha e thick "rubber 
bands" for the outside and metal only on the inside--- that way, they 
are truly quick release and my kids could never get their feet caught in 
the stirrups. I know they have them for English saddles; perhaps someone 
has seen modified ones for Western?
That is my one BIG FEAR in starting my horses---- being drug by the leg 
in the event of an involuntary dismount. That's probably the biggest 
reason I use an English saddle with a "chicken bar" for the first few 
times (that plus I hate all the leather on Western saddles anyway).
Good Luck!!
Bette

Kathy & Mike Kelly wrote:

> My daughter is nearly 6 and ready to do more riding than just being led 
> in the arena.  I have an old western saddle, with stirrups and taps, but 
> the taps are so deformed she can hardly get her foot in the stirrup (I 
> have vague memories of this always being the case with taps when I was a 
> child, too).
>
>  
>
> I use stirrups with a cage, and am wondering if anyone makes child-sized 
> stirrups with cages?  Or should I just get her some boots?
>
>  
>
> Kathy Kelly
>
> Parks AZ


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Bette Lamore
Whispering Oaks Arabians
Home of 16.2h TLA Halynov
who lives on through his legacy
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