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Palogal
02-06-2009, 05:58 PM
Ok so I'm at the point that I can look at most horses and know "he'll take a 50" and I'm usually right. What are the actual points you measure between to get the measurement? Someone asked me the other day and I don't know exactly where they are.
HeartofSteel
02-06-2009, 06:01 PM
If you put a saddle on and measure from billet to billet it will tell you what size girth you will need
Arrow
02-06-2009, 06:02 PM
About half-way up the billets.
42many
02-06-2009, 09:17 PM
And the billets are often different lengths for different saddles - what a pain :)
cloedoll
02-06-2009, 09:37 PM
I did what Alissa & Arrow said, but the girth I was using had elastic on both side and it ended up being too big. I usally go with the last hole on each billet or second to last and that has been pretty accurate...however, I would trade all that for the gift of being able to eye what size girth a horse/pony needs, haha!
Palogal
02-07-2009, 02:36 PM
I've been around lesson horses too long! The kid gets the tack and I'm all like "No, he needs a 48." So when someone asks me who's out of state and I can't see the horse I'm all jacked as to how to tell her to fit her mare!
outriding01
02-10-2009, 09:18 PM
Haha, I almost always underestimate girth size. It's because for years, I had a pony that took a 42". Then the same girth happened to fit my Appendix QH hunter, and then it also happened to fit my Clyde/tb cross jumper! It was like the wonder girth. The biggest girth I've ever had to use on any of my horses was a 48".... But lately it seems like everyone else has extremely fat horses or something because I keep grabbing 48's and end up having to go back for 54's!
cloedoll
02-11-2009, 09:04 AM
Haha, I almost always underestimate girth size. It's because for years, I had a pony that took a 42". Then the same girth happened to fit my Appendix QH hunter, and then it also happened to fit my Clyde/tb cross jumper! It was like the wonder girth. The biggest girth I've ever had to use on any of my horses was a 48".... But lately it seems like everyone else has extremely fat horses or something because I keep grabbing 48's and end up having to go back for 54's!

Whoa, that IS a wonder girth! Hahaa