mine was $90 because i got the endurance cut so that at least the front half fits his natural girth spot…
glad to hear they’re working for somebody!! haven’t gotten mine yet.
I cancelled that order
And got a slightly different one from slypnergear.
They had a much better price and they had it in stock unlike the first place.
$66 with shipping:)
I have not even as much as sat on a horse since november (we’ve only been ground driving) so this is v exciting.
Know how you feel…Had a saddle - but lame horse. Retired that horse, got new horse. SADDLE FIT nightmare… FINALLY got saddle…now it’s me that’s lame…
Sorry to hear you guys are having riding troubles! Ack, no fun. 
I rode 2 1/2 hours this morning in the new mohair girth. I really do like it. I guess I wish I’d bought the endurance style though, but this is fine for now. It does NOT slip, that’s for sure. I love how easy the billets just slip into the keepers. My old girth you had to thread the billets through 3 sets of very tight keepers. What a pain. My only other regret is that I didn’t buy a longer one. Oh well, live and learn.
A2
what do you mean an endurance one? what’s the difference between the endurance and the one you got? what did you get, a dressage one?
as much as i miss trail riding, i have to say that the 3 months off have been so beneficial. by working with her on the ground i had an opportunity to watch her move, see how stiff her LH is and then work with it to make it stronger and healthier. when we started out ground driving in november she’d literally look like she was dragging her toe on the LH when she first started trotting to the left. now the leg looks practically normal from the v. first stride. and i’m sure her topline has benefited from all this long and low work. i’m convinced that i see a difference. i hope my saddle fitter will confirm it when she comes with the saddle.
so things happen for a reason and if this time wasn’t forced upon me, i might have some real serious issues with her soundness down the road. so it’s not all bad:)
Oh tha’s wonderful you can use the time off to figure out her lameness issue! Did she have an injury? It’s too bad you haven’t been in the saddle for a while but at least you can use the time for beneficial things, and come riding season you’ll be all set to go again! 
Yes, there’s an endurance model that’s 26 strings versus 14, and it’s wide in the middle and skinny on both ends. I didn’t choose it because I thought it would be too wide in the middle and cover too much area (looks like a roper girth), and also I wasn’t sure if the 26 strings would get bound up. I wanted a single flat layer of strings against the horse. But, in looking at it now, the strings separate a little bit and you can see hairs stick through between the strings. Not a problem if the girth isn’t too tight, or in the summer time. But this horse is SO unfreakingbelievablysensitve that a little hair pull will cause a snort and stomp and bite at her sides. Crazy mare. I should just renew her trace clip and that would solve that issue. She has not acted like her hair is being pulled, but she has acted that way with neoprene before.
oh, i didn’t know about the difference in number of strands…
oh well. i think my is the regular ap, probably 14 strings then.
kip had an injury to her LH hock about 5 years ago. she landed on a piece of an old pipe or some kind of a steel rod which was sticking out of the ground in her turnout (we just moved to that barn when it happened…). vet came out, looked at it, told me it could be real bad and left me with a tube of antibiotics. so i guess in light of his ‘diagnosis’ it wasn’t so bad.
i realize now that that hock is much stiffer. well, i knew for a while that she doesn’t like to stretch that leg back during trimming for example but didn’t realize how much it affected her under saddle until i began ground driving.
I got the roper looking girth 'cause the forward half will actually make it forward to the girth area.
I’m glad to hear it’s not slipping…Husband sat on my horse for a little today, and I got back on with a ‘what-in-he*l-happend-to-my-stirrups!!!’. His extra weight crushed the flocking more than I do - and the saddle had slipped around mr. mutton withers to where one side was about 3 holes shorter than the other side!
shoot!
just when posting on the human HR monitor thread i realized that i may not be able to use my HR monitor (the human kind) with the mohair girth b/c it’s not fuzzy!
i wonder if anyone has been able to use the mohair girth with the human HR monitor set up successfully…
i can’t believe i didn’t think of this before. i may have to return that girth and exchange it for a fuzzy type like a toklat:(
as for the stretching/shrinking
Someone mentioned their mohair girth had shrunk. I think if you wash them in hot water that is what might happen. Slypner gear has good, simple instructions. Wash in cold water, hang flat. They will still stretch a bit, not that much though for all the comfort!
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Someone mentioned their mohair girth had shrunk. I think if you wash them in hot water that is what might happen. Slypner gear has good, simple instructions. Wash in cold water, hang flat. They will still stretch a bit, not that much though for all the comfort![/QUOTE]
I actually need to wash mine because I’m between horses. The last horse I used it on was the mare I was leasing. I have the black and natural striped mohair dressage girth from Saddle Up Tack because it has the 1.5" roller buckles I needed for my centerfire v-rigging billets.
They said to handwash cold (DO NOT machine wash) and lay flat to dry.
got mine!
it’s nice and soft. i like it! i want to keep it.
does it stay this soft or does it become more stringy with use?
It will stay soft and wonderful as long as you wash it in cold and lay it flat to dry…I’ve had mine nearly a year now and it is as soft and cuddly as it was the first day. AND I’ve washed it many, many times! I’m so glad this girth is catching on with folks, my horse and I just love it! (speaking of the roper style endurance anatomical mohair girth)
A2- sorry to hijack- did you go to the UMECRA banquet this past weekend?
As for HRM’s- I use mine with a PVC/Neoprene girth, and it works just fine. I have one cheap fleece girth, which really has to go… but if I stick with wool or Mohair girths, I am constantly washing them. If I do not… well, we get little fungi issues here once in a while that I do not want to promote.
Anyway- would love to see pictures of your girths in action.
As for saddle pads- I use a Diamond Wool pad cut to fit my Tucker, and a Thinline pad on top of that. A friend of mine has just started using the Thinline Dressage oad with her Barefoot saddle. Still have not hear how that is going. She was using a Skito, with special pads and Lexan to boot, but was still getting white spots and sore backs…
DJ - No, I didn’t. Were you able to make it?
The more I read about the Skitos and “fancy” pads the more they scare me. It’s either all good or all bad. It seems like people spend as much time and money on the pad as they do on the saddle. I ordered a Toklat woolback and I’m going to give that a shot for a while and see what happens. My gutt feeling all along about the fancy treeless pads hasn’t been good. I might have to eat my words some day and go that route but I’d rather try other options first. I sold one of my Abettas to a woman who had horror stories about Supracor pads and what happened to her horses’s back. That wasn’t the first story I’d heard either. At the end of the day, I just feel more comfortable with good ole’ fashioned wool. Of course that can go wrong too, but I’d at least like to give that a shot first, I think. After all this time of hating neoprene and fleece girths, I’m so glad I finally just bit the bullet and bought the mohair string girth. I only hope now that I continue to love it as time goes on. It wasn’t the money, it was the “idea” of a string girth. But sometimes what’s most simple is what works the best.
A2
did you wash your mohair girth yet?
how does it look after the wash?
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did you wash your mohair girth yet?
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I’m not A2, but I washed my mohair girth a few days ago. I hand washed it in cold water, rinsed well, and laid flat to dry. The leather backing’s still a bit damp, so I’ll probably put it back outside to let it dry in the sun, but the mohair itself is dry, and soft, and feels great.
thanks dreamswept,
that’s what i hoped. i’m going to try it with the HR monitor. i really like the feel of the mohair. hope my mare agrees;)
Yippee!!!
Mine looks like it’s actually gonna hold the saddle in place - and the front of the girth makes its way WELL into horsies natural girth area!!!
I have a Billy Cook Mohair girth that has lasted me FOREVER! I like the roper style best. The next one I get will be one of those Smart Cinches in mohair. A friend of mine has one and I really like it.
I also use Skito and ThinLine pads and have been very happy with both of them! They are the only two “fancy” pads that I used that really work the way they claim. And, the nice thing about ThinLines is that if you don’t love it, you can send it back within 30 days for a refund. I like the Skito because you can shim it and do all sorts of things with the foam if you have hard to fit horses.
