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Looks like living on the edge there John.
Finally opened your video Cesar, nice horse!!
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A hard frustrating today today. Eight riders displayed their strengths and weakenesses perfectly. A big positive was that Hal was able to cope with more and more Roman equipment without bolting and generally making life uncomfortable for me. Please don't take the photo as displaying my preferred equipment for this coming season, but rather a selection intended to test the horse and myself.
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The horse looks happy enough! :wink:
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The leather on his neck makes him look a little zebra-like. :wink:
BTW, with a name like "Hal", if he starts saying "I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that", beware...trouble usually follows.
It's odd how a change of helmet or other gear can spook a horse, but it's true nevertheless.
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Hal has a very long name, which shows his breeding, but is known as Halcyon or Hal for short. He has been introduced to the horse box and is now in a field with our other horses to get him used to them. Currently he doesn't like going near our other horses, which makes parts of our display a problem.
He's used to the Roman saddle but not to being "dressed up", and this was the first time he had to put up with me in relatively full armour. It was the first time I've ever worn splint greeves and they didn't effect the horse in any way, although my legs are now much longer.
Last October Hal was scared of me, the tack, saddle, mounting block and everything else. He's come a long way. I want to use him in our first show of the year at Chillingham Castle on the early May Bank Holiday, and we have many hours to put in before then.
My Deurne is in for repair so I used the Concesti, and it was easy to wear with good visibility and hearing.
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Hello,
Yesterday, we have a lot of fun working with horses full equiped at the beach.
Here a picture:
I like a lot more to ride with the roman saddle than with stirrups. I have not make full gallop, but a lot of quick changes of direction at full canter, and the horses riders have had a good coordination.
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Hello,
A video.
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/vid ... 310&ref=mf
It's at facebook, but i think it's open to general acces.
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Very pretty horses and a really amazing place to ride. East Yorkshire is still wet and sinking below the North Sea.
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Nice horses! I like the one on the right, it looks like a smaller version of a Palamino.
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Our first BBQ of the spring. And the picture shows our new melon beads on one of the new horses......
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We are riding every day and things are coming together. Our 7th saddle is in commission with an 8th not far behind.
Role on the summer.
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Quote:And the picture shows our new melon beads on one of the new horses....
So THAT's what it means to be 'in the Comitatus cavalry'.... hock:
Looking nice, btw.
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Quote: Our 7th saddle is in commission with an 8th not far behind.
Sounds good! Are they horned saddles? Special featureas? I've heard something about a recent research which suggest a tree less design for it. Seems the Timetrotter are making/have made such a thing. Sounds very interesting.
Anyway, I'm now busy finishing some horse equipment. Hope to have a full display, including saddle, tack with phalerae, etc by the end of this year. Still a lot of work and money to get there.
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I fear I do not rate the pad saddle. It is twice as large, twice as heavy and judging by examples turning up the UK, a poor saddle in general but with nice stitching. Take a good look at
http://www.comitatus.net/cavalryrecreate.html
We will have seven Gallic-Roman four horned saddles plus a steppe saddle to demonstrate the contrast. Getting the equipment is the first part and very enjoyable. Making it work on the horse is the second part, and learning to ride as a convincing Roman is perhaps the hardest part. I'm glad you want to try it.
I've spent the past week riding horses, shooting bows, and dressing up in different armours. It has been great and the sun has been shining.
Today , as a Hun, it was jumping. Little Hal was a star. But Murph was fantastic as well.
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Hello!
Regarding the construction of a roman saddle, another possibility possible that only the cantle and the fork are made in wood, and those two wooden parts are joined by the bars, made from very thick leather. The horna are atached to both wooden pieces, or made integral, in the same piece.
Probably, in such way, the bars conformed better the wavy anatomy of the chest of the horse. In traditional spanish saddle construction, the tree are made from straw and leather, and usually there are aplied wet to the horse, and then you have to mount with the saddle "wet", to conform to the horse anatomy.
And probably, in such way, the leather can be quickly adapted to another horse, better than if the bars are made from wood.
Its a suggestion, between the Junkelmann's soft saddle and the Connoly's wooden structure one...
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