KM Elite Luxury Padded Head Collar Hunter Green- Medium

KM Elite Padded Headcollar – Hunter Green, Medium (Cob)

Hunter green is the quiet option in this range. It is dark enough to look right on a traditional yard and forgiving enough that a week of mud does not show the way it does on yellow or lime, which is most of the reason it keeps selling. This is the Medium, or Cob, fitting.

The build is KM Elite's usual: double and triple weave lined nylon, padded through the headpiece and nosepiece, with brass-colour clips and a throat lash clip. The brass against dark green is the combination most people picture when they think of a smart everyday headcollar.

Performance & Benefits

• A dark shade that does not show yard dirt between washes.
• Double and triple weave lined nylon webbing, which is what gives the headcollar its stiffness and its life on a busy yard.
• Soft padded headpiece and nosepiece, placed where a plain nylon headcollar normally marks a horse.
• Brass-colour clips and fittings throughout, including a throat lash clip.
• The throat lash clip lets you fasten the headcollar round the neck first, which helps with a horse that lifts its head away from you.
• Made in the same colour across KM Elite's matching lead ropes, so a set can be kept together per horse.

Suitable For

• Everyday handling — catching, leading, tying up, grooming and travelling.
• Medium (Cob), sitting between Small (Large Pony) and Large (Full).
• Cobs and heavier ponies, and anyone who prefers a traditional colour.
• Yards that colour-code headcollars so the right one goes on the right horse.
• Not cut for a full-size horse — Large (Full) is the fitting above it in the same range.

How to Use

• Fit the noseband about two fingers below the cheekbone, well clear of the soft part of the nose.
• You should be able to slide a flat hand under the noseband and two fingers under the cheekpiece.
• Adjust at the headpiece buckle, and use the throat lash clip rather than threading the whole headcollar over the ears.
• Hand wash in warm water and air dry naturally. Do not tumble dry.
• Rinse mud and sweat off before it dries into the weave, which is what stiffens nylon webbing over time.

Specification

• Double and triple weave lined nylon, with a padded headpiece and nosepiece.
• Brass-colour clips and fittings, including a throat lash clip.
• Colour Hunter Green, size Medium (Cob). KM Elite's size run is XXXS (Shetland), XXS (Colt), XS (Small Pony), Small (Large Pony), Medium (Cob), Large (Full) and XL (XFull).
• KM Elite product code 1002011.
• KM Elite publish no neck, nose or headpiece measurements for these fittings, so none are stated here.
• KM Elite describe the clips and fittings as brass-colour; older retail copy calls them solid brass, and the manufacturer's wording is the one used here.

Care & Caution

• This is not a breakaway headcollar. The webbing and fittings are made not to give, so do not leave it on a horse turned out, loose in a stable or unattended in a trailer.
• Tie to a loop of baler twine rather than straight to a fixed ring, so something breaks before the horse does.
• Recheck the fit as the horse changes shape through the year — a headcollar left a hole too tight is what causes rubs on the nose and poll.