Curb reins with no buckle?

KathyK
Bringing Life to the DDBB
Posts: 1123
Joined: Sun Oct 11, 2015 1:19 pm
Location: Beautiful Aurora, Ohio

Curb reins with no buckle?

Postby KathyK » Sun Dec 29, 2019 2:04 am

Can anyone explain the reason for the way the ends of these reins are attached (lower part of picture)? There's no buckle, and the leather is sewn together and there's a keeper that holds the reins together.

Vespucci reins.jpg
Vespucci reins.jpg (16.16 KiB) Viewed 4300 times

Tanga
500 post plus club
Posts: 959
Joined: Sat Apr 13, 2019 2:32 am

Re: Curb reins with no buckle?

Postby Tanga » Sun Dec 29, 2019 7:09 pm

I've never seen that. Interesting. Maybe it's to avoid having the metal of the buckle so the reins don't interfere?

Canyon
500 post plus club
Posts: 650
Joined: Mon Oct 12, 2015 6:29 pm
Location: W CO

Re: Curb reins with no buckle?

Postby Canyon » Sun Dec 29, 2019 9:54 pm

I believe that arrangement is for when you want to drop the curb reins to the horse's neck and work only with the snaffle reins. You can slide the keeper down so the curb reins at a safe length.

KathyK
Bringing Life to the DDBB
Posts: 1123
Joined: Sun Oct 11, 2015 1:19 pm
Location: Beautiful Aurora, Ohio

Re: Curb reins with no buckle?

Postby KathyK » Sun Dec 29, 2019 10:06 pm

Canyon wrote:I believe that arrangement is for when you want to drop the curb reins to the horse's neck and work only with the snaffle reins. You can slide the keeper down so the curb reins at a safe length.

Aha! That makes more sense than anything I can come up with, lol.

lorilu
Herd Member
Posts: 256
Joined: Sun Oct 11, 2015 10:54 pm

Re: Curb reins with no buckle?

Postby lorilu » Fri Jan 03, 2020 1:17 am

yes I agree. Additionally, in my experience none of my curb reins have had buckles, always sewn together... only the snaffle rein has a buckle.....


Return to “Tack, Apparel, Facilities and Transportation”

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 23 guests