August 2003

Leather Turnout Halters You’ll Love

Our paradox: Find a durable, good-looking, affordable halter that also has some inherent “weakness” for our horse’s welfare.

Thornhill’s #2471 is our first pick in leather turnout halters.

In the best of all worlds, horses would be pastured without halters. They would come when they were called. They’d raise their right hoof and take an oath not to go under, over or through fences. And at feeding time, they would line up in the proper pecking order.

But we know that doesn’t happen. Horses escape to run frantically down interstate highways. The horse you want to ride is the hardest to catch, and the entire herd thinks your arrival at 5 p.m. is a signal to stampede. …