Thorowgood girth straps - any problems?

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Hi,
I have had Dylan's thorowgood saddle for about 18months now and the girth straps are awful! They are synthetic but the holes are starting to stretch and the material is splitting.

Has anyone else had this problem or is it just me?!

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It is very vexing!

I had a thorowgood saddle for Sidney with no problems but I wonder if it might be something to do with the girth. I used an elastic girth on Sid's but my saddler told me not to use one with elastic otherwise the saddle would slip on Dylan's round barrel -only the girth without the elastic is really hard to do up :(
 
Depends really. What kind of girth are you using...how tight do you do it? I've just swapped a traditional leather saddle and new leather girth straps..for a Thorowgood synthetic. I think the wear is comparable,perhaps the leather elongating and stretching more. I'm using a Wintec elastic girth and do it quite tight! One of the Thorowgood straps does appear softer than the others, but perfectly sound..:)
 
I need to get the fitting checked out on it anyway so I might look into getting them replaced with leather ones.

Kryss I use a wintec girth with no elastic.
 
mu0ljk said:
Hi,
I have had Dylan's thorowgood saddle for about 18months now and the girth straps are awful! They are synthetic but the holes are starting to stretch and the material is splitting.

Has anyone else had this problem or is it just me?!

:o
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Common problem with with the saddles our riding inst. banned the saddles from her riding school after a rider had very nasty fall off her horse.cause
girth strap on the thorowgood saddle snap-ing
 
I've not even had mine that long and there are a few little splits starting in the rubber stuff. Worse than that though the front strap and webbing on one side came right off, it was only held on by a few cr*ppy staples :eek: Saddler has now re-attached it and re-inforced the other side so the same can't happen to that.
 
The same happened with my saddle- i blamed it on having a chunky cob so lots of pressure on the girth straps. Still i got my saddler to replace them and now they're fine. Love the saddle in every other way and so does my horse so it was worth a bit of extra money to replace them.
 
If you are talking about the new T4 ones, yes I agree the quality isnt very good. My old thorowgood was ok, just a bit plasticy so hard to grip sometimes, but the T4 ones seem to be made of quite low quality leather, they are very soft and easy to do up but all the leather seems to crack very easily and they seem too thin. I will be keeping a close eye on mine.
 
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