How do I have so many cavesons?

[Luseride]

Cleaning up in the barn. I understand the fifty-eleven hundred halters and ninety-nine lead ropes. I get the extra pads and grooming kits. These are from being a lesson barn and kids buy stuff then leave it when they stop riding.

What I don’t understand is how I have only found one headstall without a caveson but have probably 20 cavesons without the rest of the bridle.

I did find one headstall today that the throatlatch was broken so it one of the aforementioned pieces probably goes to it but the rest I have no idea.

[2DogsFarm]

Maybe, like coathangers, they multiply if left alone?

Or, like me, owners of bridles prefer the clean look of no caveson?

[Pokerface]

Maybe they are like barn cats and easily reproduce? I have the problem that, whenever I put any tack in my mother’s tack room, it magically morphs into allllll of the other stuff there and is impossible to find/distinguish from the stuff that is already there. It’s like the black hole of bridles and girths (thankfully no misplaced saddles yet). Maybe our tack is like the toys in Toy Story?

[Jackie_Cochran]

I can see how cavesons can “breed”.

Back when I had one horse. I bought him in 1970, the bridle had an old fashioned regular caveson.

Then I bought a dropped noseband. I have no idea where that ended up.

Then I bought a figure-8 noseband, I think that one finally disintegrated, anyway it was no longer usuable.

Then I bought a “french” noseband, with rings where the head slip met the cavesson. I think that one disintegrated eventually over the decades.

One horse, one bridle, 4 nosebands. At one time in my life I owned more cavessons than I did bits.

Now I do not use nosebands at all, and the horses I ride are happy with me about that.

[paw]

I, too, have an overabundance of cavesons. Think I’ll go with the coat hanger theory.

[kande04]

Same here. I don’t use cavesons because I leave the halters on underneath the bridles so that it’s easy to tie them if I want to. So I have a lonely caveson collection that I’m hoping I might find some use for someday.

I used to go to shows and part of the prep was remembering to put a caveson on the bridle I was planning to use, but I’m done showing so can’t foresee ever needing to do that again.

[Luseride]

@2DogsFarm

Maybe, like coathangers, they multiply if left alone?

Or, like me, owners of bridles prefer the clean look of no caveson?

At least I have plenty of spares if the need ever arises.

[Luseride]

@Pokerface

Maybe they are like barn cats and easily reproduce? I have the problem that, whenever I put any tack in my mother’s tack room, it magically morphs into allllll of the other stuff there and is impossible to find/distinguish from the stuff that is already there. It’s like the black hole of bridles and girths (thankfully no misplaced saddles yet). Maybe our tack is like the toys in Toy Story?

I also found saddles I did not know I had and have no idea where they came from. Amazing what accumulates over the years.

[Luseride]

@Jackie Cochran

I can see how cavesons can “breed”.

Back when I had one horse. I bought him in 1970, the bridle had an old fashioned regular caveson.

Then I bought a dropped noseband. I have no idea where that ended up.

Then I bought a figure-8 noseband, I think that one finally disintegrated, anyway it was no longer usuable.

Then I bought a “french” noseband, with rings where the head slip met the cavesson. I think that one disintegrated eventually over the decades.

One horse, one bridle, 4 nosebands. At one time in my life I owned more cavessons than I did bits.

Now I do not use nosebands at all, and the horses I ride are happy with me about that.

The nosebands are really just there for the look to tell the truth. All my horses go both Western and English so not a lot of contact usually. Many days we ride Wenglish, a combination of tack and equipment that the horse likes best for the job they are doing that day.