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Throughout the show we saw several peices of horse tack (the term used for the equipment horses use such as saddles ect) saddles and collars mainly and in pre show material, more tack was going to be featured such as bridles, but that got cut due to it being similar to BDSM gear as anyone who's seen lewd fan art they were right to be cautious so tack got restricted to the occasional saddle, or bridle mainly seen on rarites mannequins, with the most common being the collars ponies wear when pulling carts, but i believe that most if not all of real life tack can be put in the mlp world and have explanations why sentient ponies would use it. 

First saddles, we already know that saddles are used both for fashion as well as to keep warm as well as parts of royal guard uniform possibly to help keep the armour together, but there is other reasons why saddles would be used, ones with stirrups for instance (footholds on the saddle meant to help a rider stay on) could be used to help carry shopping bags by tieing them to stirrups and for the more bulky western style saddles (the ones with the raised horn and two straps) would see extensive use by farm ponies mainly to help carry things on the ponies back like heavy hay bales or jugs, but also to help secure cattle by tieing one end of a rope to them and tieing the other end to the saddles horn (a kind of raised prong on most western saddles) to help keep the cattle from getting away. 

Next up bridles, they're are many uses for these from helping secure headgear to a ponies head from anything to dental headbraces or pony guard helmets, to potential fashion (early material shows rarity in one as well as all the mannequins at carousel boutique), reins are a bit more specific either used to help restrain prison ponies, or as used in thereputic riding. 

To go off on a tangent i belive that thereputic riding exists in the pony world as it does irl for the same reason as we do it, to help ponies who require physical therepy, in this, the pony being ridden, most likely a trained specialist of sorts, would wear a saddle with stirrups and a bridle with reins, not a bit though we'll get to those now. 

Bits would exist also, but in a rather different form, instead of cold metal ones meant to control a ridden pony, they would instead be rubber ones given to teething foals as a teething toy.

Finally draft tack harness would be used for the simple reason of it would more easily secure the pony to the cart in the case of heavier loads this might be essential as for blinders they'd be potentially used in the sport of chariot racing where the pony driving the chariot and the pony pulling work together, with the blinders being a factor of that. 

I mainly came up with these theories mainly cos i dont really like how tack is automatically BDSM in many peoples eyes when applied to sentient ponies, while theres nothing wrong with doing that im not saying don't do that, i do like thinking about practical not lewd reasons for tack to exist. 

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1 hour ago, Metemponychosis said:

Fashion. Some of it could be utilitarian, such as saddlebags, but mostly fashion. Ponies wanna look pretty.

Yeah probably, tho things like bridles make the fashion point hard cos i cant see a human fashion equivalent for a bridle since saddles are basically treated like corsets 

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On 2021-06-07 at 4:42 PM, Demonslayer said:

Yeah probably, tho things like bridles make the fashion point hard cos i cant see a human fashion equivalent for a bridle since saddles are basically treated like corsets 

You don't have to. They are not humans. Not everything necessarily needs an equivalent.

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