*shudder* We just went through five months of hell trying to find a saddle for my mare... Good luck with that. Do you have a saddle fitter in the area to give it a feel?
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Feel free to tell me to bugger off, but I'm curious: what kind of saddle? What's the discipline?
The saddle is a western one, which I'll use mostly as a general sitting-on kind of saddle - for any more dressage I'll probably go back to my treeless but I'm not absolutely confident that has the structure for riding further in future. I would prefer to have something that offers a better weight distribution.
Whether I have a good chance of that with a random saddle off ebay I honestly doubt, but as far as I can tell it's a genuine if battered ranch saddle and if it does fit it can offer a good stopgap while I look for a more long-term proposition...
Decent western saddles are quite hard to find in this country, which is one of the reasons I went for this one- it really is a bargain and if it fits that is a big win as far as I'm concerned...
Oh, reall----Okay, I'll stop there, short of looking like a total idiot... yeah, I'm in the Prairies of Canada, so Western Saddles are... we'll say "commonly found everywhere."
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Saddle fitting... fun...
Date: 30 Apr 2009 18:38 (UTC)...
Feel free to tell me to bugger off, but I'm curious: what kind of saddle? What's the discipline?
Re: Saddle fitting... fun...
Date: 30 Apr 2009 19:08 (UTC)Whether I have a good chance of that with a random saddle off ebay I honestly doubt, but as far as I can tell it's a genuine if battered ranch saddle and if it does fit it can offer a good stopgap while I look for a more long-term proposition...
Re: Saddle fitting... fun...
Date: 1 May 2009 02:12 (UTC)Meh, if the slide-feel doesn't show any gaps on the back, it should work... if it doesn't fit, they'll let you know... good luck!
Re: Saddle fitting... fun...
Date: 1 May 2009 10:11 (UTC)Re: Saddle fitting... fun...
Date: 3 May 2009 05:25 (UTC)Best of luck. =D