Oh i understand
when i bought my first lexus, my kids said "MOM! WHAT are you thinking, you're not the lexus type!"
I guess one never knows, but maybe they were right, RC calls it the farm lexus, you'd be amazed at how much grain or hay that trunk will hold
In the RMH classes you don't double bridle, nor do you have to use the long shanks, a Loose Jaw colt snaffle or gag bit is acceptable I use the colt snaffle (butterfly snaffle). The breed generally doesn't use the high ported bits on the long shanks, their palets are too low for them, they use mostly lowport curbs or broken bits with that rubber stuff stabilizing them. The Black Barefoot London treeless saddle is also approved to show in. I'll get one of those. I love them. So the show attire isn't all that stuffy any more, really. Here is the London, and a pic of Gambler, in his show bridle.
And I like the suit thingie. Dani (and her baby), Cocoa and Daisy are all show quality, Dani was shown quite a bit and Daisy (at almost 4) has a ton of potential (I bought her as show potential), just need to adjust her head set and keep her on the rail to be ready. Cocoa is a conformation quality yearling, but may not really be big enough at maturity to compete undersaddle, i'm not sure yet. Chester is also show quality, but not real big either. They need to be pretty big to be noticed - he's really my trail horse.
We just bought a 3 y/o 15.1h Bay show quality gelding too. He's for sale (so is the one Taylor's been riding, she's going to ride one of the new blacks since i don't need 3 Red Chocolate mares), I may not show the gelding...but if he's still here when the time comes, i will try him.
I bought 2 gorgeous black mares and the bay gelding Friday. Rottncop's ready to kill me