Posts by colleenmeyer

Saddles for Thoroughbreds

A few days ago we posted some photos on our Facebook page – http://on.fb.me/u0aDd7 – of a Detente saddle designed for wide-backed horses.  A rider who saw those photos asked about saddle for narrower off-the-track Thoroughbreds.  We posted the following response on Facebook – http://on.fb.me/sZl7BM – and thought we might include it here as well.  As always, we welcome...

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Saddles, Saddle Fitting, and Technology: Can They Play Well Together?

We posted a shorter version of the following here, though that post is not yet up.   In any case, take a look at that post for the context of this one. Thanks for sharing your experience with Novel Pliance and the TeamSattletest systems. What a worthwhile effort! You probably know about the pressure-testing “research” (and I use the term quite loosely) that has been going on in the UK,...

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Saddle Fitting in Concord, MA

April 12, 2011Colleen will be in Concord, MA on Tuesday, April 12, for fittings at several barns.  Please call if you’re interested in saddle...

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Colleen in Merrimack, MA

April 11, 2011Colleen will be in Merrimack, MA and environs on April...

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A Short(ish) Treatise on Saddle Fitting

This article appears in an edited version here.  I wrote it in response to this article on The Chronicle of the Horse website. Anyone who has been around horses long enough is familiar with this fundamental law of the riding universe: For every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert. While other sports have forged ahead with science-based research to improve not only athletic performance...

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