Your Complete Guide to Horse Gear, Tack & Equestrian Equipment in the UK
Somewhere between “my horse deserves the best” and “my bank balance says otherwise” sits the humble numnah — and if you’ve spent any time scrolling tack shop websites at midnight, you’ll know the affordable sheepskin numnah search rarely turns up anything genuinely affordable. Real sheepskin is expensive to farm, tan and sew, so when a … Read more
Somewhere between “the saddle fits brilliantly” and “why does my horse keep swishing his tail at girthing-up time” sits a small, unglamorous bit of kit that punches well above its size: the half pad. If you’ve landed here searching for an affordable half pad, chances are you’ve either just had a saddle fitter mutter something … Read more
Your horse’s back doesn’t care what your saddle cost — it only cares what’s actually touching it. That’s the slightly annoying truth behind most saddle-fit frustration, and it’s exactly why so many riders end up hunting for a memory foam saddle pad under £50 instead of committing to a full re-flock or a new saddle … Read more
Let’s be honest: nobody gets into dressage for the tack shopping. And yet here you are, staring down a saddle rack that looks like a jumble sale of white, navy and diamanté-studded cloths, all promising to be “the one.” Finding a decent dressage saddle pad under £40 shouldn’t feel like defusing a bomb, but the … Read more
There’s a particular kind of guilt that creeps in when you notice a dry, sweaty outline under your horse’s saddle after a hack — the sort that makes you wonder whether that £12 numnah from three years ago has finally given up the ghost. An affordable GP numnah doesn’t have to mean a flimsy scrap … Read more