{"id":1494,"date":"2011-03-30T20:46:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T01:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2019-11-04T20:04:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T02:04:10","slug":"screaming-with-my-reins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/screaming-with-my-reins\/","title":{"rendered":"Screaming with my Reins"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a secreat reason which I won’t go into right now because its a fault on my part, on why I want to ride with Romal Reins.<\/p>\n

The public reason to want to ride with Romal Reins is:  Romal reins means you are riding a finished saddle horse.
\n I like it when Nova and I look like a finished saddle horse!  Romal reins is a sign of being a very accomplished horseman with a finished saddle horse.  Have I said Finished Saddle Horse too many times in this paragraph?<\/p>\n

A Romal<\/strong> (pronounced ro-MAHL), is a type of long <\/em>quirt<\/em> attached to the end of a set of closed <\/em>reins<\/em> that are connected to the <\/em>bridle<\/em> of a <\/em>horse<\/em>. It is not to be used to strike a <\/em>horse<\/em>, but rather was a tool used to assist in moving <\/em>cattle<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n

A romal is usually made of <\/em>leather<\/em> or <\/em>rawhide<\/em>, is about four to five feet long, flexible and somewhat heavy, to prevent excess swinging and to aid control.<\/em><\/p>\n

It is historically associated with the <\/em>vaquero<\/em><\/a> tradition of <\/em>western riding<\/em><\/a>, and today is most often seen in <\/em>western pleasure<\/em> and <\/em>equitation<\/em> classes at <\/em>horse shows<\/em> for certain <\/em>horse breeds<\/em> that are shown in the “California style” of western riding, or in other western events in regions of the United States and Canada that are most influenced by the vaquero style.<\/em><\/p>\n

I have a beautiful set of Romal reins that are leather with silver settings.  I wouldn’t want to use this set of reins for everyday riding. This is a horse show set of reins.  So, I looked all over the internet stores for Romal Reins.  I didn’t even notice that some of them came in different lengths.\"\"<\/p>\n

I got my reins today and it took me two hours to draw them out of the package.  I think that I could more easily ride a camel with that long neck and head than my horse.  They are long.  I compared them to my beautiful leather reins and they are only about a foot longer.<\/p>\n

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But wait!  The end is missing on my beautiful pair of Romal reins!  I had leathered the reins up and left them by my chair. Some little innocent doggie was chomping on my reins when I came home one night.  My old reins were there too. That’s what she was chomping on.   I said, “Thank Goodness, she just chewed the old reins!”  Turns out, she had also ate the end of my show reins!  I need a leather man…saddle maker, Help Me!<\/p>\n

I called Tackrus tonight and someone just answered…”hello”.  I said, “Is this Tack R Us.  “Oh yes”, he said.  I told him I was a new Romal Rein user and I just got my reins.  I told him that they were way more beautiful than the picture, but they were too long.  Did he have a shorter set.  Silence. Then he said, “No, he said, “we only make that size”.  “Oh”, I said.  “OK.”  Then he said, couldn’t you bend the rein and tie it to make it shorter”?  “Huh?” I said.  He repeated.  “Oh, I said, probably yes.”<\/p>\n

I need some tan bread ties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a secreat reason which I won’t go into right now because its a fault on my part, on why I want to ride with Romal Reins. The public reason to want to ride with Romal Reins is:  Romal reins means you are riding a finished saddle horse.  I like it when Nova and I look like a finished saddle horse!  Romal reins is a sign of being a very accomplished horseman with a finished saddle horse.  Have I said Finished Saddle Horse too many times in this paragraph? A Romal (pronounced…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[85],"class_list":["post-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-romal-reins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6047,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions\/6047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}