[HairOfTheDog]

Heh... I think he’s got a bit of a belly :~)

But you’re right that it looks high... I wish there was a set of rings a little further down. I usually adjust the elastic breastcollar so that it’s taught but not stretching yet. He’s never indicated any difficulty with it... even up hill... up hill is one of his best things. It’s down hill he doesn’t like. ;~) And he can graze in it.

I have wanted to find a nice wide regular breastcollar, and a western one would work if I could find one that was right. English ones are so narrow and delicate that I think they’d be darned uncomfortable if they were really in play.

[AnAmericanMother]

You can buy a wider English breastcollar that instead of going into the rings, slips over the girth on both sides just below the buckles. My trainer uses one on her big Hanoverian because he's just so BIG. Gracie is tall but quite narrow, and the narrow high breastplate with the rings works just fine on her. The elastic ones that hook into the rings tend to ride too high on her and cut into her windpipe - I don't like them on her at all.

This is the kind of breastplate my trainer uses:

But this one is elastic, hers is all leather. I think the elastic looks a little tacky and like the plain leather. It's about the same width, has the same little keeper strap over the neck. She hunts all day in it with no slippage or problems with fit, and Dante is one BIG horse.