KM Elite Luxury Padded Head Collar Hunter Green - Small

KM Elite Padded Headcollar – Hunter Green, Small (Large Pony)

KM Elite's Small is their Large Pony fitting, and the name catches people out often enough to be worth stating plainly before anything else. If you are buying for a 13hh to 14.2hh pony this is the right size; if you are buying for a first pony or a Shetland, look at XS, XXS and XXXS instead.

In hunter green it is about as understated as a nylon headcollar gets, which suits a pony that goes to shows as well as out to the field. Padded headpiece and nosepiece, double and triple weave lined nylon, brass-colour clips and a throat lash clip.

Performance & Benefits

• A pony-sized headcollar with the same padding and weave as the horse sizes, not a lighter version of them.
• 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.
• Small (Large Pony), roughly 13hh to 14.2hh.
• Large ponies and small natives in regular work.
• Yards that colour-code headcollars so the right one goes on the right horse.
• Not a small-pony fitting despite the name — XS (Small Pony) and XXS (Colt) are the sizes below it.

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 Small (Large Pony). 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 1002012.
• 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.