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Re: [RC] [RC] Cruppers? - Karen Sullivan

I have tried a few cruppers and now the only ones I will use are the
ones made by Gail Hought of Hought endurance tack...all the moulded
neoprene-type ones just see too hard, or are shaped too narrow for the
width of the tail.

Gail makes a very comfortable crupper which is three-fold soft leather
over biothane, so it takes on the shape of the tail, with leather against
the skin....

I even sent her a zilco crupper and had her replace the tail part with her
leather three fold....

I have all my horses in a crupper; consider it a piece of safety equipment....as
we do a lot of hills.  I start them with the crupper by making sure I
can slide my hand under their tail without them freaking out; some
nice scratching....then I
saddle and put them in stall with goodies in a feeder....slip crupper
under tail but unfastened.....a couple of times to get them used to
whole idea..then loosely buckled while they are saddled and
eating.....to leaving it on while ponied, etc.

I have it a bit snug, as when they are moving usually their tails are
lifted a bit....

Seems to be working well for all of them...
Karen

On 8/30/07, heidi larson <ribbitttreefrog@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I like the neoprene ones that Moss Rock Endurance has and
my horse had his put on while lunging, very loose, a few
bucks and it seemed fine, rode in it on the flat, totally
loose, kept reaching back and grabbing and tighting myself,
no reaction, went to some slight downhill, still loose, no
reaction, then tigher and steeper and he never really
seemed to care.  Two horses have been trained to cruppers
that way.  They seem to not mind if you do the training
incrementally.

heidi

--- "Debbie K." <dakota.charm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello, Can you guys give me tips on using cruppers with
an endurance
saddle, my saddle is slipping on downhills, so I think I
need to get a
crupper, I have used them years ago for driving and with
a bitting
rig, So I think I remember how to introduce one for the
first time,
but that is about it, how tight do I have it, how much
weight can a
rider be when using a Crupper? Is there a better one or
style that I
should get???

Thank you...

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