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Eventing equipment focuses on safety and practical use. Learn what a professional event rider needs to get the job done in this video presented by an internationally renowned clinician and event rider.
Hi, I'm Cathy Wieschoff, and I'm talking to you about the sport of eventing today. And I wanted to talk a little bit about the tack I use and, and what I wear when I compete. Actually, back up when I ride every day, I obviously wear riding breeches and I usually just wear half chaps and you know, some type of, of hard, maybe a leather shoe. But, when I compete, then I wear my tall leather boots and spurs, if there, if I need them for a horse. Some of my horses, I don't need spurs on; but, as you get to the upper levels of competition, it's required to wear them for dressage and so, I think it's a good idea to get the horse's get used to them. For dressage, we always have to wear our, a stock tie and our black jackets. At the international competitions, we would wear top hat and tails which is really fancy. And then, for cross country, I wear the same gar, garments, the same breeches and boots and spurs; but, for cross country, then, I'll wear a colored shirt which is my color is green and white. So, if you see me out there, that's who I am. And I have a, a, a silk cap cover that I put on my hat. And then, I'll also wear my safety vest; I'll, I'll have my .2 air vest on, my co, my hard had and I always carry a stick when I'm jumping and always wear gloves at, because I think it's important to wear, to number one get use to wearing gloves. But, I think that, you know, the horses get sweaty and the rain slip in and you can't be going back to the barn to get your gloves in the middle of a competition. For the horses, for dressage, it's,it's a rule that they're not allowed to wear any boots on their legs for dressage. So, you can't have bell boots, you can't have brushing boots or, or you know, I call them brushing boots; but, it's their open front or close front boots. You can't wear any of that stuff for dressage. So, and, and the bit requirement is that the horses go in pretty much a plain snaffle. It can be a Dr. Bristol, a French Lengths; but, they all have to be smooth. No curve change or, or anything like that or no curve type bits, except for the upper levels, I have to correct myself. We, we are allowed to use a double bridle at certain levels of competition. But, you always need to check the rules on that to make sure that you're allowed to do that.
