KM Elite Headcollar Brown - Cob

KM Elite Padded Headcollar – Brown, Cob

Brown is the colour for a yard that keeps its tack traditional, and it is the one KM Elite colour that sits quietly next to brown leather rather than shouting over it. The Cob fitting is their Medium, cut for a broad jaw and a shorter nose than a horse-sized headcollar assumes.

The webbing is double- and triple-weave lined nylon with a padded headpiece and a padded nosepiece, and the clips and throat clip are brass-coloured, which reads as brass against brown better than chrome does. It is a working headcollar that happens to be smart enough to take somewhere.

Performance & Benefits

• Double- and triple-weave lined nylon webbing, noticeably heavier than the single-layer nylon used on most yard headcollars.
• Padded headpiece and padded nosepiece on the two points that rub.
• Brown webbing with brass-colour fittings, so it sits with traditional leather tack.
• Cob is KM Elite's Medium fitting, cut for a broad jaw.
• Brass-colour clips and hardware throughout, including a throat clip.
• Hand washable in warm water, so mud does not become permanent.

Suitable For

• Cobs, natives and lightweight horses with broad jaws.
• Yards that keep everything brown and want the headcollar to match.
• Everyday handling, grooming, the farrier and travelling.
• Showing at home and in-hand work where a bright colour would be wrong.
• Too small for a heavyweight horse — the Large (Full) fitting is the next step up.

How to Use

• Buckle on the near side, with the noseband sitting about two fingers below the cheekbone.
• Adjust so two flat fingers fit between the noseband and the nose — any tighter and the padding cannot spread the pressure.
• Clip the lead rope to the ring under the jaw, not to a side ring.
• Hand wash in warm water and air dry naturally. KM Elite say not to tumble dry.

Specification

• Size Medium, KM Elite's Cob fitting. Colour Brown.
• Double- and triple-weave lined nylon webbing with a padded headpiece and padded nosepiece.
• Brass-colour clips and hardware throughout, including the throat clip.
• KM Elite's size ladder: XXXS (Shetland), XXS (Colt), XS (Small Pony), Small (Large Pony), Medium (Cob), Large (Full), XL (XFull).
• SKU 1002000. Barcode 5060171230717.
• KM Elite name their fittings by pony and horse type and publish no neck or nose measurements in centimetres, so none are given here.
• This photograph is shared with the Brown headcollar in other fittings, so it shows the colour rather than the size.

Care & Caution

• This is a standard nylon headcollar, not a breakaway one. The webbing and fittings will not part under load, so do not leave it on a horse turned out unsupervised — a fixed headcollar catches on fences, gateposts and hind shoes.
• Tie to a loop of breakable baler twine with a quick-release knot, never directly to a ring, gate or post.
• Check the stitching, buckle tongues and clip springs before each use and retire the headcollar once the webbing frays.