Re: saddle placement question

["Tamara Jane Habberley" <tamarahabberley@lineone.net>]

I competed for a while on a wintec AP 500. Nice saddle fitted well, but
ended up with white hairs and thick skin in the stirrup bar area of the
horses back after about six months.

I supect the trees are not strong enought to carry a riders weight over the
whole saddle area.

fantastic to just be able to hose clean though.

I now ride in a paneled saddle - the Free and easy, its great.

My horse is short and dipped back and has high knee action and huge
shoulders ( hes a welsh cob - like an old style Morgan horse) and this is
genuinly the only saddle that I have had which hasnts created white hairs
and pressure points with him.

Tamara

----- Original Message -----
From: <RhndLev@cs.com>
To: <DESERTRYDR1@aol.com>; <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 5:12 PM
Subject: RC: saddle placement question


> Thanks, Jeri.  I like the way the Wintec feels to me also, but I do have
some
> trouble just standing in it.  Posting is fine, sitting is fine, two
pointing
> is hard.  Special has a great sweat pattern from the saddle, but still has
> the white areas she developed from the Tennesseean saddle.  I don't know
if
> those ever go away or not.  And those skin under those white areas feels
like
> it's thicker than the surrounding skin.  I didn't notice the thickening
prior
> to using the Wintec.  So, though the Wintec *appears* to fit, and Special
> *appears* to like it, I don't know if the Wintec is causing the skin to
> thicken in those areas, or not.
>
> Rhonda
>
>
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