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...
read moreWe 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,...
read moreThis 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...
read moreMarch 23, 2011Colleen will be in Rehoboth, MA and Berlin, MA on Wednesday, Mar...
read moreA short work of incomplete fiction. (Actually not that short.) Preface I just read a review in the March 2011 issue of Dressage Today of what sounds like a very interesting book: Falling for Fallacies; Misleading Commonplace Notions of Dressage Riding. What resonated with me was a description of the book’s author, Jean-Claud Racinet, as “a practitioner of never-ending Cartesian critical...
read moreThis photo has nothing to do with saddles or the saddle biz, but we thought we'd put it here anyway. By the way, Llewie's on the left, Tiger on the right. (c) Advanced Saddle Fit 2000-2010 The way the product is produced also affects the final price, which is how rational markets work, up to a point. But rational is not the first word I would be inclined to use in describing the saddle...
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