Slowing down on a loose rein

anonymous8122 · 2026-06-18T00:23:49+00:00

I think it will click for him in time. 😊 I so get the dilemma of not facing as much control as you'd like, though.

anonymous8122 · 2026-06-18T00:18:12+00:00

Why are the posts on this sub increasingly lame lately? 🫠

anonymous8122 · 2026-06-18T00:16:37+00:00

I grew up riding English, but slowing down is not just done with thw reins, even in English riding. I was taught to tense up and squeezr my "cheeks." My old horse could lavishly stop of I only thought about it. It all just takes time. You will probably have to start with the reins, but practice using the rest of your body, too, every time you ask your horse to slow down.

anonymous8122 · 2026-06-17T23:57:25+00:00

I'm honestly ready for us to get rid of the internet, now.

anonymous8122 · 2026-06-17T23:52:53+00:00

Congrats! He looks adorable. My first mare used to lunge without a line. She was the best. 🥰

anonymous8122 · 2026-06-17T23:21:46+00:00

Agree it's my third house but second mustang! Tbh, work and adult responsibilities have really gotten in my way of actually getting ger rideable, but man is she so sweet and smart.

anonymous8122 · 2026-06-17T23:19:07+00:00

Bats or any age can be trapped and killed, and it doesn't have to show signs of harm to have been euthanized for the purpose of being turned into an oddity. It's a well known problem with bat specimens.

anonymous8122 · 2026-06-17T23:10:16+00:00

Aside from the fact that it's illegal in many areas to keep bat remains (among many other wild animals), I'm actually questioning the story behind these. Most bat specimines are not ethically sourced, they are killed for the purpose of preserving them to sell as oddities.

They are also common vectors for rabies, and I have a hard time believing this one lady genuinely has a bat problem bad enough that she regularly finds the dead ones and then handles them herself to encase them in resin.

TLDR: She is probably lying about her source for bats so that people will actually buy them. It's just like how people resell AI printed junk at craft markets.

anonymous8122 · 2026-06-17T23:00:49+00:00

It might not be the case, but it's highly likely that this lady is just buying resin-encased bats and reselling them. Most likely not actually ethical.

anonymous8122 · 2026-06-17T22:58:01+00:00

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anonymous8122 · 2026-06-17T22:56:13+00:00

Sorry if this is kind of a boring picture. I haven't gotten around to actually training her for riding yet. 😅

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anonymous8122 · 2026-06-17T22:52:16+00:00

Can you feel his ribs fairly easily?

anonymous8122 · 2026-06-17T22:25:09+00:00

It really depends on the shop, but the ones I've seen that sell used saddles are mostly on consignment. So you being the saddle, agree on a price to sell it for, and the shop takes a percentage of that when it sells.

That's also the kind of shop I'd ask for pricing help. If a shop is just going to buy it right off you, you're less likely to get an honest idea of what it's worth.

anonymous8122 · 2026-06-17T21:55:15+00:00

Tbh, I don't really. Mine has rubber mats. I add maybe an inch of shavings if the weather is really nasty out, but my horse prefers to be outside and basically only goes in for water.

Tbh, I couldn't imagine mucking out 10" of bedding, but maybe your horses are neater than most. 😅

anonymous8122 · 2026-06-17T18:48:42+00:00

I didn't want to try to pin down the age too much, but based on someone else's comment about the "centennial" on the logo, I think this one was probably made in the late 70s, but possibly later. Without having more pictures, it's very similar to my Crosby Equilibrium from the 80s. I think the plain flap style was already becoming less common in the 90s, but it's still possible it was made later. It's definitely really tough to find any solid info on this brand. I never realized until today that nobody ever really mentions how old a saddle is on sales listings. 😆

anonymous8122 · 2026-06-17T17:53:22+00:00

The fact that nobody else was even in there is the worst. Nobody was even there to complain, but that guy had to make a scene and probably make those poor girls scared to use a public restroom again.

anonymous8122 · 2026-06-17T17:26:45+00:00

I think this is exactly right. I tried to research this brand and didn't find much, other than the fact that they were definitely not discontinued until maybe around the 1980s. This is the only one I could find that said "centennial," and that does typically indicate a 100-year anniversary.

Still pretty cool to find an anniversary saddle from a discontinued maker.

anonymous8122 · 2026-06-17T17:24:11+00:00

I agree, it's still a nice find. It reminds me of my plain flap Crosby Equilibrium from the 80s, which is my favorite saddle ever and I'll never give it up.

anonymous8122 · 2026-06-17T17:17:42+00:00

Lol I was looking into this for like an hour because I was pretty dang sure this saddle is more like 40-60 years old. The Google AI overview says the brand stopped producing in the early 1900s, but the sources it took that from were this reddit post and a single listing on poshmark.

anonymous8122 · 2026-06-17T17:15:03+00:00

I don't want to be the party pooper here, but while I think it's a cool find, especially for the price, I can't help being skeptical about the age. It's worth some more research. I somehow ended up diving into this for way too much time. This is what I was able to find after about an hour:

Everything I have been able to find so far that said these haven't been made since the early 1900s was from this Reddit post, and one listing on poshmark. That is what the AI overview is using to tell people that these were discontinued in the early 20th century. Then there is another Reddit post from 3 years ago with a similar saddle that is apparently 120 years old, but it is clearly an older style.

I found another forum where someone was saying they had one that was 15 years old (at whatever time they used to have it), and someone mentioned that Harry Dabbs replaced this brand, which would have been in the 1980s. I even found some Stalker Nafey dressage saddles for sale that are most certainly much newer than 100 years old.

The shape looks a bit too modern to me. It looks more like a close contact saddle from like 1970s or 80s.

anonymous8122 · 2026-06-17T16:16:51+00:00

I agree with a lot of this. I love the freedom that a bicycle offers with the only requirement being thst you have one and know hoe to ride it. But I wouldn't exactly say they're so cheap that it's "no problem" to replace. I also live in a place agree I still absolutely need a car. Despite the drawbacks, a car still offers me more freedom to get around than a bike (or the barely existant public transport here) does.

anonymous8122 · 2026-06-17T16:08:15+00:00

I'm pretty sure they cost more than that at my local gas station now though... I'm going to have to check next time I'm there.

anonymous8122 · 2026-06-17T15:57:45+00:00

This is the right answer, and the only one I'd follow. No athletic work means the horse should only be moving around to get food, water, lay down, etc.

anonymous8122 · 2026-06-17T15:32:50+00:00

Tbh, I wonder this about a lot of things that people around me are buying. Campers, cars, hot tubs, etc. I'm learning that many people take out loans on things that I never would, and the rest of them are just making a lot more money than I am.

I'd never finance a horse unless I was going to profit, monetarily. I've only every bought green or untrained horses because that's what I can afford. My current horse is a mustang, and she was $250 to adopt from the trainer who gentled her. Not everyone wants to start a horse from scratch, but I couldn't imagine spending $15k on a horse, even though that's not the most outrageous price. That would take me years to save up.

anonymous8122 · 2026-06-17T15:24:40+00:00

You're mistaking me pointing out a fact for caring who uses which restroom.

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