Saddles, stirrups, bridles, halters, reins, bits, harnesses, martingales, and breastplates are all forms of horse tack.

Saddles, spurs, ropes and vests used by the Rangers were all fashioned after those of the vaqueros.

Sturmey-Archer and its subsidiary Brooks Saddles were sold and briefly fell into the hands of receivers.

A close succession of Kahn comedies — Blazing Saddles ( 1974 ), Young Frankenstein ( 1974 ), and High Anxiety ( 1977 ) — were all directed by Mel Brooks, who many Hollywood observers claimed was able to bring out the best of Kahn's comic talents.

On May 16, 2010, it was announced that O ' Brien would launch his new show at Stage 15 on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, California, the soundstage where films such as Calamity Jane, The Music Man, Blazing Saddles, Ghostbusters and the Ocean's Trilogy were shot.

Saddles that are too small may also cause discomfort if the rider's seat is pushed into contact with the pommel.

At the museum hideout where Boots and Saddles had been staying, a metal canister is found containing some unknown, radioactive drug.

Custer's wife, Elizabeth, who had accompanied him in many of his frontier expeditions, did much to advance this view with the publication of several books about her late husband: Boots and Saddles, Life with General Custer in Dakota ( 1885 ), Tenting on the Plains ( 1887 ), and Following the Guidon ( 1891 ).

( Note: several of Ball's biographies note that Kahn was eager to be released from the role so that she could join the cast of Blazing Saddles, a film about to go into production ; whether Kahn was fired or left Mame under mutual agreement is undetermined ; however, Kahn stated in a 1996 Charlie Rose interview that she had indeed been fired from Mame.

He moved to Los Angeles in the 1940s, and had a few uncredited roles in movies, including Boots and Saddles and His Kind of Woman.

He had numerous roles in Western series, including Frontier, Crusader, My Friend Flicka ( three times ), Boots and Saddles, Northwest Passage, The Restless Gun ( four times ), Sheriff of Cochise, State Trooper, Wagon Train ( 4 times ), Overland Trail, Laramie ( 4 times ), The Big Valley, Daniel Boone, The Legend of Jesse James, Death Valley Days, Zane Grey Theater ( 4 times ), The Rifleman ( 3 times ), Rawhide, Gunsmoke ( 10 times ), Bonanza ( 4 times ), Laredo ( The Treasure of San Diablo ) and The Oregon Trail.

Saddles are seats for the rider, fastened to the horse's back by means of a girth ( English-style riding ), known as a cinch in the Western US, a wide strap that goes around the horse at a point about four inches behind the forelegs.

Saddles are usually divided into two major categories: " English saddles " and " Western saddles " according to the riding discipline they are used in.

Mel Brooks ' 1974 film Blazing Saddles, set in the Wild West in 1874, contains many blatant anachronisms from the 1970s, including a stylish Gucci costume for the sheriff, an automobile, a scene at Grauman's Chinese Theater, and frequent references to Hedy Lamarr ( 1914 – 2000 ).

He also appeared in episodes of the TV series Wanted: Dead or Alive, Boots and Saddles, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, Death Valley Days, Lawman, Bat Masterson, and many others.

The line was parodied in the Mel Brooks film Blazing Saddles in 1974 and was cited in many movies after that.

There are also many references to Brooks's previous films, especially Blazing Saddles ( including a direct mention of the title ), History of the World, Part I, and Young Frankenstein ; Brooks himself appears as Rabbi Tuckman, a Jewish parody of the Friar Tuck character, who blesses people with Sacramental wine and offers circumcisions (" They're the latest craze!

After Blazing Saddles, Little appeared in many less successful films, such as Greased Lightning, FM, High Risk, Scavenger Hunt, Jimmy the Kid, Surf II and Toy Soldiers.

" Boots and Saddles " was the most imperative of these signals and could be sounded without warning at any time of day or night, signaling the men to equip themselves and their mounts immediately.

Pratchett has described it as " an attempt to do for the classical fantasy universe what Blazing Saddles did for Westerns.

Blazing Saddles is a 1974 satirical Western comedy film directed by Mel Brooks.

The film ends with Bart killing Lamarr by shooting him in the groin at the " premiere " of Blazing Saddles outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre, saving the town, and then joining Jim inside the theatre to view the end of the movie, persuading people of all colors and creeds to live in harmony, before they hand in their horses and ride off ( in a limousine ) into the sunset.

Saddles also vary with rider preference, from the cushioned ones favored by short-distance riders to narrower saddles which allow more room for leg swings.

Saddles are typically made of plastic or bone for acoustic guitars, though synthetics and some exotic animal tooth variations ( e. g. fossilized tooth, ivory, etc.

The movie Blazing Saddles ( 1974 ) used nigger to ridicule US racism.

Other references to Le Pétomane include Mel Brooks's 1974 film Blazing Saddles, Kevin Gilbert's The Shaming of the True, the 1984 college romp film Up the Creek, directed by Robert Butler, in which the four protagonists represent Lepetomane University in an inter-collegiate river raft race, Kinky Friedman's 1999 novel Spanking Watson, and John Hodgman's book The Areas of My Expertise.

The standard takes its name from the fictional town Rock Ridge in Mel Brooks ' film Blazing Saddles.

Such titles include Blazing Saddles, The Hallelujah Trail, The Scalphunters, Rustlers ' Rhapsody, and Maverick.

The Western genre has been parodied on a number of occasions, famous examples being Support Your Local Sheriff !, Cat Ballou, Mel Brooks's Blazing Saddles, and Rustler's Rhapsody.

Louis Burton Lindley, Jr. ( June 29, 1919December 8, 1983 ), known by the stage name Slim Pickens, was an American rodeo performer and film and television actor who epitomized the profane, tough, sardonic cowboy, but who is best remembered for his comic roles, notably in Dr. Strangelove and Blazing Saddles.

Pickens appeared in dozens of films, including Old Oklahoma Plains ( 1952 ), Down Laredo Way ( 1953 ), One-Eyed Jacks ( 1961 ) with Marlon Brando, Dr. Strangelove ( 1964 ), Major Dundee ( 1965 ) with Charlton Heston, the remake of Stagecoach ( 1966 ; Pickens played the driver, portrayed in the 1939 film by Andy Devine ), Never a Dull Moment ( 1968 ), The Cowboys ( 1972 ) with John Wayne, Ginger in the Morning ( 1974 ) with Fred Ward, Blazing Saddles ( 1974 ), Poor Pretty Eddy ( 1975 ), Rancho Deluxe ( 1975 ), The Getaway with Steve McQueen, Tom Horn ( 1980 ), also with McQueen, An Eye for an Eye ( 1966 ) and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid ( 1973 ) in a small but memorable role.

The dead man, Stefan " Saddles " Graczik, leads the police to a known drug factory, headed by none other than Professor Gromolko, an original architect of the city.

Elsewhere, Detective Synaesthesia gets the idea to use zen taxi driver Blindshot to track down Marta " Boots " Wesson, girlfriend and associate of Saddles.

It was here that Saddles was to deliver the drug, but before Peacock can investigate anything, he is drafted into an inter-precinct gladiatorial contest due to a seeming bureaucratic oversight.

The ramps at the catapult ends on some aircraft carriers are used to catch the ropes so they can be reused ; bridles have not been used on U. S. aircraft since the end of the Cold War, and all U. S. Navy carriers commissioned since then have not had the ramps.

Numidian cavalry were very lightly equipped, lacking saddles and bridles for their horses, and used no armor but carried a small shield, javelins and possibly a knife or longer blade.

Animal sinews were used to tie arrow points and lances to throwing sticks, or for bridles for horses.

Two of the bridles were purchased for use by the Walsall town authorities during the 17th century, but it is not clear what later happened to either of them or even if they were ever used.

Scold's bridles or branks were probably used as a punishment but no official records of their use have been found.

Industrially, they were skilled metalworkers, the diagnostic artifacts of the culture being a bronze knife with curving profiles and a decorated handle and horse bridles.

Double bridles, originally called " full bridles ", were much more common several hundred years ago.