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Re: [RC] Introducing your horse to a crupper - Sharon Levasseur

Well, you could be right, I'm certainly not uber-experienced with cruppers. 
I've only ever used one on one horse.

All I can say is I don't like to look back and see the crupper flopping around. 
It seems to me if there's that much movement, that would be annoying and maybe
even cause friction rubs.  I adjust it so there's a bit of give, but so that
when the horse is standing still the crupper goes straight from the crupper
ring to the tail, NOT in a C-shape off to one side.

*shrug*  My horse doesn't mind, but I suppose others might.

-Sharon L.



Quoting Kristi Schaaf <iluvdez@xxxxxxxxx>:


Sharon wrote: Also, once I put the real crupper on, I
started off with it a bit loose and then move on
gradually to the finished tightness.  It has to be
pretty tight to do its job.
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Not sure if you're talking about 'pretty tight' just
on hills or all the time? I believe that a crupper
should be loose when you're riding on the flat. When
the horse goes downhill and tucks his butt, THEN the
crupper will 'tighten itself', as Angie described. I
like to adjust it so if the saddle stays right where
it was on the flat, the tension is either non existent
or just BARELY there on the downhill. I consider a
crupper a type of 'emergency brake' that I don't want
to come into play unless my saddle is misbehaving. I'd
think a horse would get pretty resentful of a crupper
that put tension on his tail head all the time.

Kristi iluvdez at yahoo dot com

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Re: [RC] Introducing your horse to a crupper, Kristi Schaaf