KM Elite Luxury Padded Headcollar Hot Orange - Large

KM Elite Padded Headcollar – Hot Orange, Large (Full)

The case for orange is entirely practical: on a dull December afternoon you can see it across a field, and you can see it hanging on the wrong hook in a dark tack room. This is the Large, or Full, fitting, for a horse of ordinary riding-horse proportions.

Behind the colour it is the same headcollar as the rest of the range — double and triple weave lined nylon, padded headpiece and nosepiece, brass-colour clips and a throat lash clip. Bright colours do fade in strong sun over several summers.

Performance & Benefits

• Among the most visible colours KM Elite offer, in poor light and at distance.
• 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), the standard horse fitting.
• Horses on winter turnout, and anyone who loses headcollars.
• Yards that colour-code headcollars so the right one goes on the right horse.
• Too big for a large pony — the Small (Large Pony) fitting in the same colour is the one 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 Hot Orange, 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 1002048.
• KM Elite's current published colour list for this headcollar names an Orange rather than a Hot Orange; the photograph is the better guide to the shade supplied.
• 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.