[drivingpairs] Re: Yankee Breeching
- From: FriesianPrDriver@xxxxxxx
- To: drivingpairs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 11:39:11 EST
In a message dated 2/27/2005 7:56:18 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
stewarts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
"I have a picture of Yankee Breeching that I got off the web in 02 from
Picturetrail.com. I just checked, and I can't find it there now. Here is
what
it says about it.
"Breeching passes over the top of the rump, with slots for crupper fork.
Quarter straps pass under horse's belly and clip into false martingale, as for
quarter strap breeching."
The picture is shown with a kicking strap. The yankee breeching fits in
front of the crupper where I fasten my kicking strap. So I am guessing the
kicking strap shown in this picture is slipped through one of the spaces where
the hip strap of regular breeching usually goes.
Deryn Stewart"
OK - I have a question. When I received my pair horse harness, made by an
Amish woman in PA, she put breeching on it that was called yankee breeching,
but is not fashioned the way you describe above. So perhaps the above
description should be called draft style yankee breeching, and the style that
attaches at the girth as opposed to the buckle in type (all other attachments
the
same as buckle in) should be called modified yankee breeching, or pleasure
style or something like that?
I was looking in the Smucker's Catalog, and the yankee breeching comes in
both styles above for drafts...so I'm confused....hmmmm, well at least I feel
better about having it now, hearing about how easily traditional buckle in
breeching can knock a pair off it's feet! Now I know to be a little more
careful with the ponies, as they have buckle in breeching.
Karen Wilkin
Star Cross Stable Friesian Horses & Sport Ponies
_www.starcrossstable.com_ (http://www.starcrossstable.com/)
47 Yellowbrook Rd.
Freehold, NJ 07728
732-919-3827
f: 732-919-3800
e-mail: FriesianPrDriver@xxxxxxx
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