X is for eXquisite
eXpenditures.
Horses have good taste, and they know. Extravagant leather tack always tastes better than rough-cut everyday training tack. The more bling, the better.
For ages, horsemen and horsewomen have pondered questions
like: Why won’t my horse chew on that
grungy old bridle with the tarnished conchos, so I can justify buying a new
one?
A near runner-up to a brand-new bridle or a fancy leather show halter, to a chew-happy horse, is always a freshly cleaned and conditioned
one.
Maybe fresh leather
simply tastes as good as it smells.
The Mane Point is participating
again in the April A to Z blogging challenge, posting daily with alphabetical
entries.
For this year's A-Z event, a
month of posts will offer Turfy’s A-Z
Rules of Horsemanship, with all due apologies to the original Murphy of
Murphy’s Law, which basically said,
"If anything can go wrong, it probably will."
Horse lovers may have heard some
of these uncannily true, yet often ironic, statements in various forms in the
past. Or not.
Image/s:
Paso Fino in Tack
by Arsdelicata
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Turfy’s A-Z Rules of
Horsemanship
Adapted from public domain
clipart
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ReplyDeleteThis is also true of young children. The nicer the outfit, the more likely it will end up with mud/grape juice stains/a hole by the end of the first 10 minutes after you've put it on them.
Well, I don't know about the taste but I certainly love the smell of new leather. My dad was a saddlemaker and I loved hanging out in his shop and sniffing the goods. :)
ReplyDeleteJust dropping by from the a to z road trip. I shall let my daughter in on your blog- she is a horse lover from an early age.
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