RE: Saddle fit for high withered horse

["Steph Teeter" <step@fsr.com>]

As long as the tree width is ok, you can use shims
to raise the back of your saddle. Skito makes a saddle
pad with foam inserts (velcro openings in the pad cover)
and you can slip extra shims in the pad whereever you
need the lift. I have one horse with a downhill back
(lower behind the whithers, higher at the loins) -
I shim the front to lift the saddle. Another horse with a very
short back, I shim the middle to keep the saddle from
bridging. Another horse that is very narrow behind
the whithers - so I use the front shims to take up
the space and keep the saddle from sliding down and
back. Lots of flexibility - as long as the tree isn't
too narrow, that's really the only thing that shims
don't help with.

Steph


-----Original Message-----
From: tvanhove@uswest.net [mailto:tvanhove@uswest.net]
Sent: Saturday, October 16, 1999 10:26 AM
To: ridecamp@endurance.net
Subject: RC: Saddle fit for high withered horse


Does anybody have advice on a saddle to fit a high  AND wide withered horse
whose back is more flat?  I'm having trouble with saddles pressing on my
guys
loins cuz they all ride uphill (higher at pommel ) on him.

Thanks,
Teresa & Grey (is there a saddle out there that would be truly comfortable
for
me?)

EquesB@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 10/15/99 12:25:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> dawnab@pdx.wantweb.net writes:
>
> > half saddlebred who was much like the one you described as narrow
> >  and high withered.
>
> I use an OF Express Lite, my half arab/half saddlebred is so narrow my
> friends think I'm riding a 4 board fence!  No kidding!  I don't think I
can
> sell him because he fits to the saddle great and I really like the saddle!
> Hell of a freason for keeping a horse,  eh?
>
> Jackie Baker
>
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