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You have the area correct.  But no girth buckles there.  It was a Wintec endurance, that has

english rigging, so buckles are up under the flap.  She NEVER gets a visual spot....just a sensitive area right under the calve of a "normal" sized person, not a munchkin.  :))  It is located at where the barrel starts to ballon out.  She was NOT clipped in this area.  I found out a long time ago, never clip under the saddle or girth....I didn't even clip close to that.  So, what hair she had, was normal growth since spring.

 

I did get off periodically and run, down all the hills and up the steep, long climbs.  Changed saddles at 55 miles, and girths, and rode with it "hanging".  Didn't help.  The damage was already done.

 

Rose has done 2 days there on multiple times, doing great each ride.  This is the first time for a noncompletion on that trail.  I think I am going back to the OF for the next ride, it seems to sit better on her than the Wintec.

rides2far@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> > Now, how about some help for me and Rose. Here's the deal. I 
> > have a girthy issue on 100's. 
>
> I got to BSF around 2 PM Sat. so was only around for about the 2nd half
> of the 100. I did P&R's and was very aware of how girthy pretty much
> *all* of the horses were. Many had rubs but they were not behind the
> elbow in the girth area, they were more under the rider's leg maybe? 
> Where the barrel sticks out the farthest before curving in. I asked one
> rider if she had a western type saddle because I was curious as to
> whether her fender was swinging back and forth making the rub and she
> said no, English. It *could* be under the buckles but it was not behind
> the elbow
>  where I saw rubs at this ride. 
>
> Several of the other pulse takers were using the hand held monitors but
> I couldn't stand to see them press them hard against the horse's side to
> get a connection. I used a stethoscope and tried to avoid ouchy places.
> Note...it was an embarassing thing when I first started doing pulses. I
> hadn't been a pulse taker in so long I did everything to do with
> recording the numbers wrong...like I'd never been to a ride. Not used to
> the new style card, eyes failing...kinda humiliating. :-P
>
> On the rub thing again...one of my theories on this ride, since I have
> noticed lots of riders dealing with rubs there, is that it comes right as
> the horses are getting ready to go from summer to winter coat. It seems
> they go through a vulnerable time in spring and early fall just as
> they're going from winter to summer coats when they are more tender and
> vulnerable. We use the same girths on our horses all year, but
>  will
> suddenly get a rub around these times if we aren't super careful. I know
> Jody clipped Rose again for this ride too. If I were you Jody I'd skip
> those areas next time. So many horses have problems getting scratches
> there I'd be curious about the PH of the soil. Doesn't that contribute to
> those problems out west? It would be interesting to see if there's
> something there and maybe you could bath those areas with something that
> would neutralize it???? (grasping at straws, wild guessing, probably in
> left field)
>
> You mentioned Rose didn't get a rub with Josie. Josie's legs are about a
> foot shorter than yours and her stirrups may not even clear the area that
> got rubbed. I can think of 3 riders right now whose horses did have rubs
> and they were all at least 5'7 or so with long legs. I wish now that I'd
> noticed if more taller riders had horses with rubs on their barrels. I
> haven't had a problem there, but I've never done more than
>  one day of 50
> miles there so not much proof I'd have any better luck than anyone else
> had I done what they were doing.
>
> Angie

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