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 moreFrankly, it’s not easy to acquire the technical expertise to be able to assess the quality and value of a saddle or bridle. Since we don’t have an industrial base producing these products in the United States, we don’t have a lot of home-grown experts with experience manufacturing them. Moreover, the value someone places on a product is subjective, and nowhere is this more true than in...
read moreThere’s some debate about who first made the observation that a lie can go round the world while the truth is pulling its boots on. Whoever it was, he or she could not possibly have imagined how wide the truth gap can stretch in an age when pretty much anyone with a keyboard can be an authority on anything. Three times over the last two days I have been brought into situations where the...
read moreEach particular tree has its own fit considerations, so wide or medium is entirely relative to the tree in question. It’s kind of like shades of paint; darker and lighter are relative. So are medium and wide, or flat and curvy. Using a single-word designation to describe either a tree or a horse is pointless because they are three-dimensional shapes. So a particular tree, depending...
read moreI know I’ve written on this topic previously, but you’d be amazed (or not) at how often this subject comes up. In the last couple of weeks along, quite a few readers have e-mailed asking about making adjustments to a saddle so that it will fit a different horse. So, although it might be a bit repetitive, I thought I make a few more notes on the subject. Some saddle fitters...
read morePatrick Keane Dressage Saddle from Advanced Saddle Fit It’s simply incredible to us Americans (or at least to me) how truly “cottage” much of the saddle industry is in the UK, where all of our saddles are made. It’s extremely human-intensive in comparison to some of the big French, Italian, and other European saddle makers who turn out extraordinarily consistent saddles...
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