GEAR

Dress Code

The participants shall dress in 1800-1900 era typical working cowboy attire. Pants should be plain canvas or blue jean. Shirts shall be long sleeve button or snap closure. Participants must wear cowboy hats made of felt or straw with a brim. No baseball caps allowed. The only exception to hats will be protective riding helmets. Chinks or chaps with natural color finish may be worn. Cowboy boots with tapered heels

shall be worn; no flat-heel work boots are allowed. Spurs are accepted wear but are not required.

Vests and wildrags are optional.

Headgear for Horses

Headstalls must be of leather and natural color. Horses may be ridden in a snaffle bit bridle. The snaffle bit bridle will consist of a broken mouthpiece with no shanks on the ring. The snaffle reins may be a

one-piece mecate or leather split reins. The mecate reins will be of horsehair, treeline poly, or nylon material.

The Hackamore will consist

of a bosal, a leather hanger (may have a fiador), and a mecate rein.

The two-rein bridle setup consists of a pencil bosal and a half breed or spade bit with rawhide or latigo reins with romal. Straight up in the bridle will consist of leather headstall, a spade bit (optional bosalita) with romal reins.

Saddles

Only leather western saddles with minimum amount of silver or brass will be allowed. Working ranch style saddles are preferred. No rubber

on the horn—only leather wrapped horns are allowed. Brass and monel stirrups are allowed and conchos are allowed if integrated as part of the saddle. Silver horncaps and cantle plates are allowed if showing ownership or depicting western tooling or carving.

Tiedowns, head-setting devices, and or any device that inhibits the horse’s ability to move his head freely are not allowed.