Heavy cotton quilt girth with detachable Platinum quality lambskin cover.

Base quilt girths and lambskin covers can also be purchased separately - please enquire.

Contoured at elbows with wide centre-piece and buckle covers. Fully padded with sheepskin & polyflex for optimal pressure distribution. Buckle flap edges tapered so no pressure ridges. Stainless steel buckles and D-ring for draw reins.

Sizes

Standard girth sizes are as follows, but custom lengths can also be ordered:

• 50cm
• 55cm
• 60cm
• 70cm
• 75cm
• 80cm
• 85cm
• 90cm

Colours

Uberhorse retains a stock of all-black coloured girths in most standard sizes.  However any combination of quilt and fleece colour can be back-ordered.  Click here for quilt & fleece colour swatches.

Questions? Item you want not in stock?

Here's more info on back-ordering.  If you have any questions please enquire, we'd be happy to help.

Further info about EA Mattes contoured girths

Mattes has studied girth design since 2002 and found girths that are correctly designed but not very well made, some which look correctly designed but are outright wrong, and those that are just plain wrong for the horse's body.

One of the basic problems found was that the pressure distribution on the sternum did not work, mostly because of wrong construction.  Even with a wide central plate, the pressure is actually only concentrated along the centre of the sternum, sometimes in an area only 2-3cm wide. The Mattes contoured girth has internal straps working against a plastic centre-piece, resulting in equal pressure distribution on the sternum.

There is also the problem of chafing in the elbow area, specifically with barrel-shaped horses, where the firth has a tendency to slip forward.  Generally a contoured girth with a narrow waist in the elbow area is ideal in this case, but very often the edges are too hard or sharp.  Turning the lambskin back around the edges of the girth avoids chafing to a certain degree but Mattes' contoured girths also feature the unique Soft-Edge design where the edges are soft and well rounded.