[RC] Treeless Saddle - resending - Ridecamp GuestPlease Reply to: Sandy Holder sandy.l.holder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ========================================== For some reason my original message will not go through - but it's important to me so I'm resending. Hi Patsy - I've recently purchased two FreeForm saddles from Chris. The first was a direct result of my THIRD saddle (a custom made to fit my high withered horse - will not name mfg.) FAILURE! I have spent more than my mortage for 4 months on saddles prior to buying this one (thank goodness I could resell them) and missed one too many rides. Here's my story - after traveling 6.5 hours to Twenty Mule team, doing a short 10 mile easy pre-ride and my horse (with his custom made saddle) a bit 'touchy' in his back afterward, I decided not to start the ride. Frustrated and disappointed, I asked a trusted friend, Michelle Rouch, DVM, what she was riding in - a FreeForm as it turns out. At 1/3 the price of my custom made saddle, I found that it not only fit my hard keeper (15.3 h, 900 lbs), but also our 'porker' mare (1100 lbs and 15.1 h) and every other horse I tried it on including my 14.2 h short coupled 800 lb arab. The thing that most people who haven't seen it should know is that its not a 'piece of leather' sitting on the horses back but injected (firm) molded foam that sits ABOVE the horses back. I use an equipedic pad that DOES NOT MOVE under the saddle (is connected to nothing), my comfortable sheepskin cover (ok, I spoil myself) and have PERFECT sweat marks (completely dry spine/channel) on every horse. My plan is to do Tevis in it this year and I believe Michelle as well as Jeremy Reynolds will be doing the same. We're all riding in FreeForms. Negatives (sorry Chris) - don't buy the girth, it galled two different horses when going on step downhills. I use my Wintec shaped girth (looks like an hourglass kind of) and everything is great. By the way, my 'break in' of the saddle was to ride it at Cuyama - first time for me, first time for my horse - we both loved it. We finished all three days (155 miles) with same horse and rider team. It was a risk to try this but I didn't have any other options and seriously was positively shocked. I can't imagine these kinds of results with any other saddle out there. Just my 2 cents worth. Good luck, Sandy (AERC #M30961) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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