For anyone else like me who benefits from visual reminders, I saw these watch band keepers and tried them on my reins …and they’re perfect for placing as reminders for rein length, etc. (The nunn finer rubber keepers wouldn’t fit over my rubber-coated reins.) I think I ordered the 22mm ones and they slipped perfectly into place:
What a great hack! It’s like the adult version/more subtle version of the color reins. I could see this being a really helpful way to quickly check and see if you’ve accidentally let the reins slide a bit or if you can get a bit short in the reins at a certain gait.
I usually just wrap a small piece of black electrical tape around the spot I need to mark.
A bridle that came with a horse I bought had a small piece of hay string tied around the rein, then covered with electrical tape. This made it more of a bump you could feel and hang on to.
I had Levi at Bartville Harness make me a pair-My hands are getting arthritic so skinny reins don’t work any more-I gave him my fat rubber XC reins and he put stops on them. Perfect. Up until then, I had black Gorilla tape as markers, which my instructor didn’t really like…These DQs are so fussy 
Very cool hack! As a very consistent rein slipper, I bought these reins (https://marystack.com/rainbow-stop-anti-slip-reins/) as a more subtle alternative to full-on rainbow reins. I really like the colored stops and the fact that the reins are not too wide, but they tend to twist. Will definitely keep this in mind as an alternative.
I have the soft leather reains with extra stops - Shockemohle, I think. I used a liquid chalk marker to put a dot on the edge of the rein (the “up” edge when the reins are held) a few stops ahead of where “my” stops are. It gets cleaned off every few months, but it’s easy enough to replace.
But between a fjord who is not a light and uphill dude, some serious hand/arm surgeries and I’m not gonna lie, a lifetime bad habit, I too am a serious rein slipper. So I took my old standing martingale rubber stops and put them on the reins about a stop behind “my” stop and it really helps stop most slippage. It works well enough that I’ll see if I can find some black ones ('m sure they make them, but I never payed attention. If not, I can use a sharpie with the best of them!)
