horseback riding in a kilt?

[Riverkilt]

Ummm, I just sort of stand in the stirrups and sweep the pleats - much like in a car or sitting down in a chair.

[Scout]

Mark, that's actually a U.S. "McClellan" Cavalry Saddle. I belive it's a Model 1904 which was produced in quantity for WWI. The McClellan was introduced during the Civil War and went through a number of modifications through the years, but was an excellent Cavalry saddle and remained in service until the Cavalry was dismounted at the dawn of WWII. I rode a McClellan as a horse mounted Deputy Sheriff a few years back and they're still in service with a number of police mounted units.

Sorry, I didn't intend a thread hijack so to bring it back on track I still don't recommend riding in a kilt regardless of the saddle!

[Mark E.]

Well, the one I sat had British markings from the Boer War (1880-81), and the central gap was only halfway to the back. SO...could have been a similar model. Illustration was for rational, not an exact representation. I am still trying to figure out how to build one of the durn things.

Thanks for the clarification (maybe now can properly google the model!), and will agree with the no kilts and horses mix.

[Mike_Oettle]

On a point of clarification, Mark E, the Boer War (so-called) of 1880-81 is formally described in South Africa as the First Anglo-Boer War or, in Afrikaans, die Eerste Vryheidsoorlog.
It involved only the Transvaal (or the Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek, as the Boer protagonists preferred to calll it) and Great Britain.
The Second Anglo-Boer War (Tweede Vryheidsoorlog) involved both the ZAR and the Oranje Vrij Staat, and began in 1899.
It ended with the annexation of the two republics by Britain as the Orange River Colony and the Transvaal Colony, annexations later denounced by the League of Nations as being illegal. (General Jan Smuts motivated for the resolution.)
Regards,
Mike

[Mark E.]

On a point of clarification, Mark E, the Boer War (so-called) of 1880-81 is formally described in South Africa as the First Anglo-Boer War or, in Afrikaans, die Eerste Vryheidsoorlog.
It involved only the Transvaal (or the Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek, as the Boer protagonists preferred to calll it) and Great Britain.
The Second Anglo-Boer War (Tweede Vryheidsoorlog) involved both the ZAR and the Oranje Vrij Staat, and began in 1899.
It ended with the annexation of the two republics by Britain as the Orange River Colony and the Transvaal Colony, annexations later denounced by the League of Nations as being illegal. (General Jan Smuts motivated for the resolution.)
Regards,
Mike

You betcha, Mr. South Africa-I won't dispute your expertise in the slightest. Most of us ingnorant Yankees gonna keep calling it the Boer War #1, though.

Moral of my initial posting-If yer gonna try and ride a horse in a kilt, do it on a saddle with appropriate architecture!

Also, a lot of us over here in the con-federal states call the American civil war the War of Yankee Agression.