Description
EquiFits BellyBand helps protect and guard against spur rubs and sores around your horse’s girth and sides.
It is made with breathable, non-neoprene elastic that offers full-coverage protection. Adjustable hook and loop girth loops are easy to put on and take off , and a reinforced safety closure ensures a secure fit.
Specifications
Made in USA: Yes
Technology: Non-Neoprene Elastic
Sold as: Individual
Features
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Made with breathable, non-neoprene elastic that offers full coverage protection
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Adjustable Velcro® girth loops are easy to put on and take off
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Features a reinforced safety closure that ensures a secure fit
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Prevents and protects from spur rubs
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Good for horses sensitive to too much leg
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Made of stretchable elastic that is durable
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Use under saddle pads, directly against the skin
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Intended to be positioned with girth slightly in front of bellyband
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Wash by hand or in washing machine on cold, air dry, making sure Velcro is fastened
Size: Measure the horses circumference around the girth/barrel
Cob 73’/185cm
Horse 75’/190,5cm
Oversize 77’/195,5cm
Color: Black
Solution For A Sore Spot the Equifit BellyBand
BY PJ MCGINNIS • FEBRUARY 13, 2015 • Horseandstylemag.com
‘Spur marks. We don’t want them, we try not to inflict them upon our horses. . . and yet, all too often, they appear. If you’ve ever seen some poor soul riding around with standing wraps stuffed sideways under the girth, ostensibly creating a barrier between heel and horseflesh, you know it’s a look that’s downright unbecoming, not to mention unhorsemanship-like.
So long to the days of shoving a bulky saddle pad alongside the girth to prevent spur rubs. Thanks to the minds at EquiFit, the new Belly Band provides yet another innovative solution to a common daily struggle.
The new sleek, black non-neoprene elastic BellyBand offers full coverage of that exact area where spurs frequently leave unsightly marks and sores. Instead of having to constantly readjust an unwieldy saddle pad as it gradually slides away every time your leg moves, this innovative EquiFit BellyBand won’t move an inch. Adjustable Velcro girth loops make it easy to put on and take off, and the reinforced safety closure guarantees a secure fit with no slippage (win!) It is 12” wide and comes in three different lengths (Cob 73”, Horse 75”) to fit all different types of horse.
It’s a genius solution to an everyday problem for many riders, but it’s hard not to wonder why we even have this problem to begin with. Whatever happened to using leg aids correctly and without the need for long, sharp spurs? To the person who first decided to create a makeshift spur rub pad, did you not consider the reason why you needed to place a guard in between your leg and the horse’s side in the first place?
Regardless of why riders continue to want to use spurs so much that they threaten to rub a horse’s side raw, a product that provides a solution to erasing spur marks is gold. The BellyBand is so thin that it allows for minimal interference between your leg and the horse’s side. No matter the underlying reasons for use, the BellyBand makes the horse’s world that much better. Does this product bring riders one step closer to properly using their leg, while serving as a warning for all to use a gentler spur? One can hope.’
