A straight forward topic for your weekend frivolity inspired by this Saddle From the CryoFreeze:
The Hunterdon, and the ability to get flying changes as well as countercanter. That’s how you knew you Had Arrived as a serious, upper-level junior back when I wish I could have been cool.
Show me what thing you covet because it was worth coveting a heckuva long time ago. And would you buy it now?
Stubben Rex saddle
Hermes saddle
Dehner custom boots in both black dress style and brown field boot style
Tom Balding full cheek snaffle
New Cavalry bridle
Eventually acquired all but the last during my long and tacky horse life.
Stubben Siegfried
Stubben Imperator
New Zealand rug
Baker blanket
Flat sewn hunt bridle with laced reins and plain ring snaffle
Western one-ear rounded bridle of russet leather and silver-colored ferrule trim
Pariani jumping saddle
Count Toptani
Imperator Saddle
Custom Dehner’s
Custom full length chaps
Bad ass cowboy hat
Had the last 3.
Ordered another pair of brown custom field boots last year.
I had the Hunterdon and it was an awful saddle. My Sovereign was a better balanced ride and was sorry that I ever sold it, the Hunterdon, not so much
Full chaps with fringe!!!
As a Victorian novel addict, I always used to want a dark green sidesaddle habit.
I only started riding seriously as an adult but I love dark hunter green jackets and rust breeches. They are making a comeback but I don’t show enough to justify getting fun colors.
Anything plaid in the way of jackets as well is pretty cool!
A friend and I were just talking about the cachet of removing your harness from your helmet. Her Patey is still hanging on her wall. Here’s to the advent of the safe and ventilated helmets!
I want my Beval World Cup back. The one with the suede padded flaps. I had an Hermes and it was fine, but I loved my World Cup.
A round bridle!
I blush to admit it, but Back In The Day the coolest kids had MADRAS plaid hunt coats for Summer.
While Poor Me had to wear the black wool hand-me-down from my Aunt.
After I stopped showing - as an older teen - I wore the heck out of that black coat. It had that late 60s kinda retro Kewl.
Wish I still had it.
But I also still secretly long for that seersucker plaid…
During the winter doldrums on medical leave, I found myself reminiscing about my childhood tack (35+ yrs ago, and my lesson-barn tack was old even back then!)
I combed the ads and found myself a beautiful Stubben Wotan & then a Sigfried (made-in-Germany oldies), and an ancient Crosby bridle just like I used to have. I love riding in them! They certainly don’t make them like they used to!
I’ve officially gone vintage!
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During the winter doldrums on medical leave, I found myself reminiscing about my childhood tack (35+ yrs ago, and my lesson-barn tack was old even back then!)
I combed the ads and found myself a beautiful Stubben Wotan & then a Sigfried (made-in-Germany oldies), and an ancient Crosby bridle just like I used to have. I love riding in them! They certainly don’t make them like they used to!
I’ve officially gone vintage![/QUOTE]
LOL. Guess I’m not the only old hag who loves her Stubben Sigfried. I see it’s made the list for several of us. I still have mine (yes, also the German-made oldie) that was a birthday/Christmas/we’ll match the $$ you save to get it present in my early teen years. I remember (not so ) patiently waiting months for it to be shipped over from Germany back in the day.
Both my kids also got their riding starts in it. Alas, now it sits in my tack room, sized for the long lost teen that I was. No longer fits me, although it does fit the pony wonderfully.
I keep it, for what??? Grandkids, maybe, although they are not yet even a thought in the grown kids’ minds. Someday they will inherit a gem.
I had a madras hunt coat!!! It was blue with a VELVET collar! I had only worn it a couple of times when I crashed a fence during a show and received a compound fracture of my right arm. The sleeve became soaked in blood and they could not get the jacket off normally, so they cut it off of me. THAT was when I started crying!!! I miss my beautiful jacket!
I still have my round bridle…showed in it in a recognized A hunter class about five years ago. Even the Judge commented walking by me afterwards what a nice classy piece of tack it was 
She was obviously of my era! (old)
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I had a madras hunt coat!!! It was blue with a VELVET collar! I had only worn it a couple of times when I crashed a fence during a show and received a compound fracture of my right arm. The sleeve became soaked in blood and they could not get the jacket off normally, so they cut it off of me. THAT was when I started crying!!! I miss my beautiful jacket![/QUOTE]
I am sorry for your jacket loss! Speaking of those hunt coats with velvet collars- I was a tough off-the-rack measure as a teenager and happened to find the most gorgeous English-made hacking jacket on eBay. It was a lovely French blue wool with a navy velvet collar, and it would have fit me almost perfectly based on the measurements. I excitedly told my mother all about it in my trainer’s earshot. She spun around from teaching her pony kids, looked me dead in the eye, and said “You will not bring a velvet collar into my barn. The 60’s are gone and you show in the equitation.”
I did not buy that jacket 
and now, in 2015, I am seeing suede contrasting collars with piping, even in the equitation ring!
A CB Jacket to look cool in while you’re waiting for your class…
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A straight forward topic for your weekend frivolity inspired by this Saddle From the CryoFreeze:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/321809393712
The Hunterdon[/QUOTE]
This is still maybe my favorite saddle I’ve ever ridden in. If I thought my butt could remotely fit in a 16.5, I’d buy that in a heartbeat. Alas, I am no longer 14.
I really, really coveted custom full chaps. With a monogrammed yoke and contrasting piping and fringe. Sometimes I’m still tempted, at least by custom half chaps, but then I figure the $$$ is better spent on lessons and show entries!
If it were still possible to buy a madras jacket, I would. I love madras.
We skipped madras for white linen in summer. Bur what I really want is a pair of rubber-footed, canvas legged Newmarket boots.
Plaited reins (the real, braided leather ones). I have them and am using them. :yes:
Hermes or Beval close contact saddle.
Anything - anything - Baker!! I find it oddly comforting that Baker has become so au courant when really we all know it’s from BITD. :yes: (ummm that would be the original Baker plaid, not the tartan. The tartan is nice, but not evocative of the good ol’ days for me. :sadsmile: )
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Plaited reins (the real, braided leather ones). I have them and am using them. :yes:[/QUOTE]
Plaited reins are the only ones I’ll use! <3 <3 <3 them!
I have two Hunterdons, I had them reflocked and had a little padding added to the seats. I only ride in them as a last resort, boy it’s still like sitting on a fence board with stirrups. It must be a testament to how much I wanted to be cool that I endured riding in them as long as I did. :eek: Sometimes I wonder if American “forward seat” riding came from the fact that it was just too uncomfortable to sit down with anything but a light seat on some of these darn saddles!
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