RC: Saddle fit

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Barb Peck bpeck@together.net
Barb Peck
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Duncan:
I think most of the riding horses in the late 1800s, 
very early 1900's had the same body type (high withers,
slab sided, with a back sloping away from the spine).
This body type, you can practically get on and off
without being cinched-up. Horses with "other conformation"
did other things.

regards,
Barb

>Duncan Fletcher said:
>And if that girth groove is a bunch of loose skin right up against the
>elbows on a older horse, it is necessary to keep the girth back. One wonders
>how those old center fired saddles ever stayed on a horse.