A basic bitting rig consists of a surcingle ( also known as a roller ) that has a number of rings on either side, placed at varying heights, usually with a crupper to prevent the surcingle from sliding forward.
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For starters in the show, there is the horse and its fancy but useful trappings : saddles, saddlebags, blankets, bridles, spurs, cruppers, martingales, even a knockout Kutenai beaded cradle board _ the aboriginal car seat _ for carrying a baby on the saddle.
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The invention of the stirrup occurred relatively late in history, considering that horses were domesticated in approximately 4500 B . C . E ., and the earliest known saddle-like equipment were fringed cloths or pads with breast pads and cruppers used by Assyrian cavalry around 700 B . C . E.
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The pack saddle consists of a tree, or the wooden blocks that sit on the horse's back, the half breed which is the canvas saddle cover, the breeching and often a crupper which prevents the loaded saddle from sliding too far forward and the breast collar which holds the loaded saddle from sliding too far back on the packhorse or mule.
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Among its other adornments, the horse _ obviously dressed for a parade _ sports an 1880 Nez Perce " medicine horse " mask of red cloth with elaborate beadwork designs, a Blackfoot crupper ( a strap and ties that keep the saddle from moving forward ), saddle and saddlebag, and a long shawl around its neck elaborately decorated with colored beadwork and tiny silver balls.
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The North Iranian Eurasian nomads known in Europe as Scythians and in Asia as Saka developed an early form of saddle with a rudimentary frame, which included two parallel leather cushions, with girth attached to them, a pommel and cantle with detachable bone / horn / hardened leather facings, leather thongs, a crupper, Assyrians, and steppe nomads depicted on the Assyrian stone relief carvings from the time of Ashurnasirpal II . The Scythians also developed an early saddle that included padding and decorative embellishments . and depictions of Alexander the Great depict a saddle cloth.
