Interested in Roman Riding?

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Good luck tomorrow, and take care of yourself!

Thanks. It was quite a good day. It rained, but I had the luck my former girlfriends horses are located at stables with an indoor ridingschool.
So, we started with trying to fit the saddle to the horse. Luckily for us it did fit and we could give it a try.
I used the Connolly type today So, enjoy some pictures.



It was very good to be back in Roman saddle. I've been riding in English and spanisch saddles since I was in York last summer, but the Roman 4-horned saddle beats all. No stupid stirrups. Unfortunatelly within the riding school I had to wear a modern riding cap.



Outside, we luckily had about 20 minutes without rain to take some more photographs. Here with my Joe Piela Burgh-Castle helmet, which still need some work.





Although it didn't totally fit to the rest of the Late Roman kit I was wearing today, we also took some pictures with my 1st Century Batavian Cavalry helmet with facemask from the Kops Plateau. (raw bowl, the work on the horse hair cover is still in progress).





Still some work to do on the saddle cloth (holes for the girthstraps have to be added) but I think it looks rather nice. Fringe is handmade



I'm really happy the saddle fits the horse so we can now start training with our new saddles. Will check on the other horses next week D