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[RC] Sport Saddle slipping - DreamWeaver

One mistake you don't want to make is to tighten the girth too much. Better to give in and get a b/c and a crupper.

When I used to rig my sports saddles the way that most people do (or used to, anyway), I could ride my horses without a b/c or a crupper. In fact, both Weaver and Rocky completed Tevis in theirs without using a b/c or a crupper.

Since then, I've ridden a lot more miles and found that this kind of rigging works better: http://webpages.charter.net/nvrider/rigging.html It allows me to move the girth farther back on the horses. Because of how they are shaped with fairly large round barrels this makes it easy for the girth to go forward so the crupper keeps that from happening. I like to ride with a fairly loose girth. I adjust my b/c so that it is actually tight enough to be of use. That means that if my horse needs to bend down to eat I need to unclip one side of it. If it's looser than that it will allow me to slide back and when you do a lot of hills or up and downs you don't want to be sliding even a small amount back and forth.

Karen
in NV


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