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Equestrian Footwear
Aigle Ecuyer
Henry Harington tests some boots that are made for
riding (and walking if, like him, you fall off your horse!)
SO HORSE RIDERS
eople who ride horses are like people who have And, riders? Just how many rugs does a horse need?
yachts or play golf. Why? Because you can sell We live in a temperate climate and many horses are
HAVE TO HAVE A them almost anything related to their favourite brought into their stables during the winter yet I’ll
BRANDED BOOT. THIS
Ppast time. This is particularly the case with that warrant there are probably more than a dozen rugs
which will improve their own perception of their own bought for every horse in the country.
IS WHERE AIGLE HAS
performance in the eyes of other participants. If you can boast a brand, your purchase does you
Take golf. Just how many loud and hideous even more credit in your own eyes. So when a horse
BEEN SOOO CLEVER.
pullovers do you need to slice your handicap to the rider starts spouting off about their Stübben, Kieffer
bone? Yachtsmen are suckers for “yacht jewellery” the or Bates saddles or their horse’s bit, take cover, they
shiny chrome bits on the deck, which tell their can bore for England about O-ringed snaffles, spade
competitors they can go faster than they can. & frog mounts, gags and kimberwicks.
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