I personally feel that dark girths are more appropriate, especially for an equitation class. If you use a white girth, it will draw attention to your leg, and possibly highlight any flaws you may have much easier. I've always preferred the leather girth look regardless.

 

Thank you!

 

I was going to say white is the traditional color. But that *is a good point about the dark girths not calling attention to feet. I always had solid color white girths for show.

This gives a really clean look, dark girth that matches saddle and blends with horse. But I like it better on the black horse than the brown one.

 

People like those elastic end girths but I an not a fan of using other than a humane girth w/ cutback saddles. The old traditional way of making a nice pocket for your knee for better security in a saddleseat flat saddle is like this (sry but I had to use a hunt saddle w/ knee roll to demonstrate how to position the girth & straps because I didn't have a cutback saddle with me at the time, lol)

The front girth strap works like a small knee block, almost. The hole over the center billet is what you push your knee into. Tuck the first billet in under as shown. Makes a little something to hang onto, unlike using a conventional girth which just makes an annoying bulge.

 

Huh! I've never seen a saddleseat girth with that setup before! It looks very interesting, and if the "kneeroll" actually helps, I'm really interested in trying it. I still prefer the dark look, but I just like my colors to be uniform for a cleaner look.

 

Thats really interesting, thanks!

 

I used to use white girths for all of my cutbacks, but after I had some pretty terrible girth sores on one of my geldings during a show weekend, I opted to go with a black neoprene girth instead, like this:

Best investment for the cutback I found. Now I show my gaited horses in a dressage saddle instead (legal in my breed, but not in saddleseat eq classes and I highly doubt in Arabian classes), so I use an anatomic girth.

 

Yeah we can't use dressage saddles. Where did you buy that girth from?

 

I bought it from the tack trailer in an act of desperation. I will need to look and see if there is any information on it - I haven't seen it anywhere else.

 

Alright awesome thanks