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Long stirrups no
longer de rigeur
By Betsy Branscome
Times Community
Newspapers Staff Writer
Form follows function.
Always. The science of saddlery is no exception.
The modern-day racing saddle followed a long course to reach its present profile. Pre-historic man sat flat on a bareback pad, guiding his donkey with a tapping-stick between the ears; compare that to a 20th-century jockey poised in perfect balance in a light-weight saddle over the shoulders of a galloping horse, steering with a space-age metal bit and reins.
The contrast is almost laughable. But the funny part about it is that it almost didn’t happen. If Paleaolithic man had kept using dogs to carry his loads, the modern-day horse could be as exotic and undomesticated as, say, a giraffe. It was a series of discoveries, and implementations thereof, that trace from that onager-riding Mongol to today’s champion jockey.
Long, long ago...
The development of equip
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