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CERTIFICATION CRITERIA FOR
ENGLISH BRIDLE MAKER

Bridle maker includes all bridlery, strap goods, and tack items such as breast collars, reins, halters, stirrup leathers, and girths. Bridlemakers should be able to make anything listed here

1.     Bridle styles: all in flat, raised, or rolled treatments, with either stud hook, buckle-in, or stitched-in attachments to bit
               Hunt snaffle
               Dressage snaffle, with and w/o flash, with or w/o crank nose
               Hunt Pelham
               Dressage Weymouth
               Hunt Weymouth
               Saddle seat Weymouth for Arabs, Morgans, and Saddlebreds
               In hand show bridles
               Race
               Walking horse

     2.     Breast collars and martingales
               Hunt, running and standing
               Polo
               Race
               Eventing

     3.     Halters
               Track halter
               Leads
               In hand halters

     4     Reins: all styles in both stud hook and buckle-in attachments, with either plain, raised, or rolled fronts
               Laced
               Plain
               Grip bar
               Rubber, Eventing
               Rubber, race track
               Web with grip bars

     5.     Hunt appointments

     6.     Girths
               Shaped, with or w/o elastic
               Tri-fold
               Balding
               Dressage, short

     7.     Stirrup leathers
               Standard hunt or dressage style
               Polo
               Doubled and stitched (D& S)

     8.     Training accessories
               Longe lines
               Longe cavesons
               Draw reins
               Side reins
               Controlling nosebands
                    Drop
                    Figure 8
                    Crank
                    Flash

     9.     Repairs on tack items
               Miscellaneous re-stitching
               Fabrication of replacement parts for tack items

     10.     Knowledge base
               Understand how to measure a horses head for bridles and halters
               Understand how various bits affect bridle fit and usage
               Know how to correctly cut straps for best strength
               Know about hardware associated with tack construction
               Know about leather and leather care
               Know leather terms and usage for straps
              Know the various bridles needed for various competitions   TRAINING   




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