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Callum Forbes
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posted 10-14-2001 10:28 PM     Profile for Callum Forbes   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Hi everybody. I am a new forum member from the Order of the Boar jousting/living history group based in New Zealand. This looks like an excellent forum!

We have a team of 6 "destriers" and rather than clogging up this message with images of all of them you can view them at:
http://www.jousting.co.nz/our_horses.htm

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Seigneur de Leon
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posted 10-14-2001 10:40 PM     Profile for Seigneur de Leon   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Welcome! I hope you don't mind if some of us bombard you with questions about jousting and horse control, as well as questions about what you use for period tack.

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Callum Forbes
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posted 10-15-2001 06:21 PM     Profile for Callum Forbes   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
I'll be glad to pass on what little we know

As far as period tack goes this is something we have only started to seriously address.

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Fire Stryker
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posted 10-15-2001 08:22 PM     Profile for Fire Stryker   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
I had the opportunity to handle a portion of a burplate of a 1530-40ish field saddle. It is much thinner than I thought. I expected it to be much thicker. Bob thinks it is about 18 gage. The overall saddle (shockingly enough) doesn't weigh in at much more than my Cordura saddle (14 lbs) about 20 lbs.

If you have seen Jeff Hedgecock's reproduction of Friedrich III's saddle (approx. 1470s), I can tell you that the tree of the 1530ish saddle shares an almost identical tree structure. The difference is in the cantle. Not bad for about a 60+ year stretch. It still had its birch covering over the tree! The suspension looked newer, so I suspect it was replaced. It looked a little haphazard so I am wondering if they put it back in the way they had found it, or made a guess at some point in the saddle's past.

The Higgins conservator is prepping the saddle for a traveling exhibition and will be taking photos during the preparation work. It is very nice.


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Rodric
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posted 10-15-2001 10:44 PM     Profile for Rodric   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
I had a generic mid to late 14th century built by a saddler from scratch and it weighs less then my wifes stock saddle.

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NEIL G
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posted 10-18-2001 03:38 AM     Profile for NEIL G     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Hi;

A few shots of the unit I belong to at the battle of Hastings reenactment.

Slightly out of period, but I figured it was worth posting anyway.

All the horses are from Janet Rogers, who provides a lot of horses for film and TV as well as reenactment.

Oh, and the headlong charge isn't either authentic or the way we move around the feild - it's a posed shot for a local newspaper taken off the feild.

Neil


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Donnachaidh
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posted 10-18-2001 04:01 AM     Profile for Donnachaidh   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Hi Neil,

You with Alan's group, or Ross's group?

If you are with Ross's, then their is a great chance I was in your conroy last year (3rd - with the 14eme Curassier, lancers Rouge, Hussars de la morte, The Vike. cavalry and me as the envoy from the 15th Light)

Role on the next big one..!

Best wishes,
Andy


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NEIL G
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posted 10-18-2001 05:03 AM     Profile for NEIL G     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
I'm with Ross Tynan's group from the Vike.

I was horse ground crew at Hastings last year, rather than riding - I'd been working in the US and came straight from the airport to the battle on the saturday morning, so I wasn't in a condition to ride.

Neil


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Donnachaidh
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posted 11-05-2001 10:43 AM     Profile for Donnachaidh   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
This could be a bad omen, but I feel I must share this with you.

Our new prospect, coming to live with us from tomorrow all going well.

Rising 5, 14h2 highland

Picture doesn't do him justice.

Usually have mares, but have gone for a gelding this time.

His name is LOMOND OF ALLTNACAILLEACH, we're just trying to come up with a shorter one that we can shout across the fields.

Cheers all,
Andy


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Seigneur de Leon
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posted 01-08-2002 10:18 PM     Profile for Seigneur de Leon   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
My fierce destrier, Barak the Bold, tremble, mere mortals!

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posted 01-09-2002 12:27 AM     Profile for chef de chambre   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Awwwwww.....

He's cute! Now how can we tremble before a critter with such gentle eyes?

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Donnachaidh
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posted 01-09-2002 04:06 AM     Profile for Donnachaidh   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Bless..!
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Brenna
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posted 01-09-2002 09:45 AM     Profile for Brenna   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Until those eyes fire up with pleasure at the charge...

Brenna

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Combatants Keep
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posted 01-09-2002 10:47 PM     Profile for Combatants Keep   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Hopefully I will be able to post a pic tomorrow. Have to learn how as well. I was pleased to see the mind set about "Destriers" on this sight.
We have a lovely Percheron/Belgian cross mare, Maggie. She is the old type Percheron. She stands 15'1 on her tippy toes and my weight tape says just under 1100lbs. I'm not sure I believe that. It put my Anglo-Arabian mare of the same height just over 1000lbs and those two are as different as night and day in bulk. Maggie loves to jump logs on trail and in a local fun show out ran some QH's in barrels and poles. Who says big can't move. She's as sweet as she can be and is always willing to do what is asked of her, even if it doesn't make sense. She'll be 5 this year and we're really looking forward to how she'll surprise us this year when her training really begins.

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Combatants Keep
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posted 01-25-2002 06:43 PM     Profile for Combatants Keep   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Here's Maggie.
This is at the Kentucky Horsepark in May 2000. She is 3 years old in this pic. This was her first public appearence.
http://home.fuse.net/combatantskeep/tomandmaggie.jpg
She is riden by Tom Nader. Also in the pic is Wayne Zeek and Tanya Richardson. Tanya is riding an Anglo-Arabian gelding bred by us. He is Phoenix El Assad and is now a Peter Stone model.
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Seigneur de Leon
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posted 01-28-2002 01:16 AM     Profile for Seigneur de Leon   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Combatants Keep, Tom Nader:

At the Kentucky Horse Park.

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