I would say mostly time and space constraints. The show grounds can fit two or three rings in the same amount of space, and then run a lot more classes with a lot more entries in the course of the day rather than running trips around a giant outside course that might take five minutes each.
More entries and more trips equals more money for the horse show.
I have no idea. I migrated over to strictly dressage (through eventing), so I’m not sure when they started to disappear. Can any of the hunter people enlighten us?
I was at a clinic where BNT (hint: he had twin brothers) forgot to turn off his throat mike on a bathroom break 
@ZuzusPetals Some of those sammiches lived far too long in their wax paper wrapping.
Which, does not inhibit mold.
That’ll teach a judge to take a peek 
Oh gross! 
I mean, the rules quoted above don’t say anything about the freshness of the sandwich…
The whole concept of the cutback saddle seems funny now.
If you’re riding something with that big a wither, you must be on a camel. Lol.
Also, I often wonder how many people who show in the DeNemethy ring at WEF these days even realize it is named after a person. Ditto for some of the other rings there.
Wow. Before Millers moved to 23rd Street. Love that ad.
There’s one of those saddles on Craigslist in my general area. Ad is asking $250 for it, so hey, it was a pretty good investment!
If there’s an oil or leather balm on this Earth that can return that poor upturned skirt to its original shape, I’d like to meet it.
As i think I said higher earlier, the whole concept of saddle fitting was “do the withers hit the pommel?” Saddles didn’t com in different widths. If the saddle was too wide for the horse’s back, the withers would hit the pommel. The solution, instead of a narrower tree, was a cut back head.
My horse needed a saddle with a cut back head.
They still make saddles with cut-back pommels. It definitely helps with some horses. My own horse does best with Passier that has a cut-back pommel.
Although, I have regularly heard that the popularity of the cut-back pommel historically had less to do with the horse’s conformation than with the, ahem, conformation of the MAN riding the horse…
Picard Antique Leather Dressing, applied with a soft cloth, allow to soak in, and buff. Or generously apply Ko-cho-line and seal item in a plastic bag overnight. Both methods used by museums.
I believe the British National Museum has its own formula as well.
I am confused by that Varick Street address…
Miller’s was on 24th St when I bought my Passier (with a cut back head) there in the mid 1960s. According to Google search, it had been there since 1939
https://flatironnomad.nyc/history/manhattan-saddlery/
Maybe the Varick St address was used for mail order.
Yes, it’s amazing how much things have changed regarding saddle fit.
24th Street! You’re right.
Biegeloil
I loff the smell of Bigeloil.
I’m so old I remember that your choices of poultice were the pink stuff (Numotizine), the black stuff (Ichthamol) or the grey stuff (Uptite).
The catalogs I pored over on the living room floor had not only Shetland ponies for sale but Quarter Horses. I believe for $500. Registered. I would pick out fencing and semi-building materials to make a pasture and barn.
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