KM Elite Luxury Padded Head Collar Red - Large

KM Elite Padded Headcollar – Red, Large (Full)

Red is one of the colours KM Elite have kept in the range longest, and it pairs with their matching lead ropes if you like a horse to have a set rather than whatever came to hand. This is the Large, or Full, fitting for an ordinary riding horse.

The word luxury in the name comes down to two things: the lining under the crownpiece and noseband, and the weave. Double and triple weave nylon holds its shape rather than going limp, so the headcollar still sits properly on the head after a couple of seasons of daily use.

Performance & Benefits

• Holds its shape after repeated washing, which is where cheaper single-weave nylon gives up.
• 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.
• Large (Full), KM Elite's standard horse fitting.
• Horses in daily work whose headcollar goes on and off several times a day.
• Yards that colour-code headcollars so the right one goes on the right horse.
• Too generous for a cob or a large pony — the Medium (Cob) and Small (Large Pony) fittings are the ones for those.

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 Red, size Large (Full). 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 1002062.
• 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.