Posted by admin | Posted in tack | Posted on 17-09-2009
Tags: bitless bridle reins, bridle, bridle rein chains, bridle reining, bridle reins, bridle reins bit, bridle reins silver, browband, equine, horses, training
have you ever had your bridle/reins break while you were riding?
and what happened?
a friend of mine gave me her old headstalls (she's selling her horse), and one of them has a replacement piece. she told me she was riding out on the trails one day, and it snapped. she had to ride back to the barn bridle-less LOL. and her horse doesn't know seat commands. so it's good her horse knows the trails well and she has a good enough seat to put up with anything the horse did LOL. but it could have been bad. and them recently, i was untacking, and i realized the tie on my reins was undone! (i can't find my exact reins, but they're a lot like this: http://www.chicksaddlery.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=AF65&Category_Code= they have that tie) if i had ridden for another 5 minutes, the reins would have slipped off the tie and i would have been screwed LOL. i was lucky. so, has anything ever broken on you? headstall? reins?...girth? what happened?
Lets see... As for bridles breaking, yes I have had it happen a few times actually. 1st time was when I was like 11 yrs old and I was out on the trial with my friends and our horses spooked and bolted and were feeding off of each other and my bridle broke, the whole cheek strap fell off. Not sure how.
2nd time, I had just got my new gelding and he was a really good boy, he had a problem corner in my arena, as most horses, (I call it Cougar-itis) anyways we hit that corner nicely and on the way away from it he bolted and the ties on the side that holds the bit broke so the bit fell out of his mouth. Luckily he was a good boy and stopped right away like he knew I wasn't in control anymore.
I'm sure there was more than that but that's all I can think of right now.
AS FOR REINS: I had this rowdy quarter horse that I had donated to me when I had to put my mare down, and he was a CRAZY horse, trained to do barrels and gaming in general. He was your stereotypical gamer, rears at the gate no brakes you know, crazy. (some girl, who was 16, trained him from the ground up) So anyways, since he loved gaming and going fast, I decided to enter in my barns gaming play day and oh man, was I in for a surprise. We had a fight at the gate, rearing, bucking, cantering in place, side passing, head tossing. CRAZY. So they open the gate, he bolts through, hitting my leg on the gate as we go through, we came around the last barrel and my reins broke, almost the same ones you have a link for, same color but I think they had different ties to the clips. That was the 1st and only time I have to bail off my horse, he was not going to stop I knew he wasn't. (I did try emergency stopping him and he was so strong and determined that the bit was on the side on his head!!!)
Another time I was in a team penning even and my Friend and I were closing the gate behind us in the pen, and as I went to turn around to grab the gate one of my split reins broke right at the clip. I just finished closing the gate and had my friend tie the rein to the bit so we could finish the competition.
There was more times but thts my favorites ones!
AS FOR GIRTHS I was riding my friends horse, trying to help her with the jog trot and I was just doing my thing and she starts yelling "STOP STOP HURRY STOP" so I brought him to a walk and walked over to her and she is like "Oh my goodness the cinch is broken" I hoped off of him and the cinch had split in the seams and the only thing holding it on was the back cinch! haha I had no idea!
Another time, the cinch didn't break but I think I forgot to check to see if it was tight before I rode, and I was riding along doing my thing and someone that was riding in the arena at the equestrian center, came next to me and told me that my cinch was hanging down about 5 inches from my gelding belly. Once again I had no idea, I had been riding for about 45 Minutes when the lady told me. OOPS. 
I am sure there has been more experiences I have had with tack but I can't think of any right now!
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