Try the "chapstick test" on any saddle you test. ?With the horse saddled and girthed with your desired pad, place a nearly new tube of lip balm on the seat and see where it rolls. ?It should end up ideally in the flattest part of the seat--if it rolls towards the pommel, your saddle is sitting downhill, if towards the cantle, uphill--and THAT, my friend, would put you in that "chair seat".
There are other variables of course--?if your horse's natural girth groove is forward (and?depending on the billeting choices along with how defined a shoulder it has), your saddle can scoot forward and then it will tilt the saddle uphill.
We bought a Wintec 2000 A/P last year.? My opinion is that the saddle?is good for all around riding, and is fairly comfortable, but I found that my feet were too far in front of me and that the saddle lacks stability on my horse and stability for the trail.? I'm finding that the "feet too far in front of me" thing is common to most English saddles I've tried, and therefore may be a fault with my own equitation rather than due to the Wintec setup--others may chime in on this and feel differently.
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The saddle is?a beautiful saddle (or, was, until my wife's unbroken horse reared in it and went over backwards--with no rider on), but not my first choice for Endurance.? I'd buy it again for general riding.
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Lesson learned: tell wife to not break a horse with a nice saddle on its back...
