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[RC] How many saddles - k s swigartKathy Ramspott said: I'd like to gather information on how many saddles folks purchase (regardless of number of horses) during an endurance career. ... Actually, truth be told, I might want to use it as ammunition/excuse to tell my husband should I want to venture out and get an endurance saddle. 0-: Well, the information you get from me isn't going to help you with respect to your "ammunition/excuse." I started out riding endurance in an English "eventing" saddle, and while I have acquired (not all of them were bought, some were received in trade for training) lots of saddles since that first one (I currently own about 15 saddles), only one of them is an "endurance" saddle that was bought for that purpose, and even that one gets used on the same horse for barrel racing. The rest of them have been jumping saddles, dressage saddles, a couple of western saddles, and some additional eventing saddles. So, if the saddle you currently have fits you and your horse, not only is there no reason to venture out and get an endurance saddle, it will probably be an expensive mistake. :) Since something different is unlikely to be an improvement on "fits you and your horse." The best saddle to do endurance in is one that fits you and your horse (the saddle fitting you IS important), what it was originally manufactured for and/or bought for is of no import. And I still use the original eventing saddle on some horses....the ones that it fits, since it is as good for doing endurance on now as it was when I bought it (15 years ago) even though it was probably atleast 15 years old even then. It has made PLENTY of trips to the saddler since then being restuffed, repairs to holes or cracks in the panels, rings installed, etc. But it hasn't been replaced. It just has a wider tree than most of my horses need right now. kat Orange County, Calif. ============================================================ If people would just think of the hoof as the foundation for the horse like a house foundation. when your horse plants his foot down in the ground and pushes forward if the foot isn't 100% balanced your chances of injury go up. ~ Paula Blair ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================
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