I have a few MIDI pedals (Eventide, TC electronic, etc) on my pedal-board and I also use a MIDI controller which doubles as an audio-loop controller (It's the RJM PBC)
I decided that I needed a MIDI splitter (MIDI Solutions) so that rather than daisy-chaining everything, the MIDI messages would go straight to each pedal from the MIDI controller. I mounted this under my Aclam pedal-board.
I realised that a space-saving right-angle MIDI cable would be the ideal solution to connect the MIDI controller to the MIDI splitter, but the ones I looked at from Hosa were the wrong way round - in other words the cable when attached was pointing up, rather than down!
The Manikin MIDI cable is perfect for my application, because when you attach it to the MIDI controller, the cable is pointing downwards, and therefore it is a neat and tidy solution to enable me to connect to the MIDI splitter underneath the pedal-board.
I have used it several times now as part of my new pedal-board set-up and it works very well!