Saddle Trees and Construction

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 follo buy cialis wing response on Facebook – http://on.fb.me/sZl7BM – and thought we might include it here as well. As always, we...

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What makes a saddle worth what it costs? (Part 1)

There’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...

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I was told my horse is a medium, but the saddle that seems to fit best is a medium wide.

Each 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-wor order cheap viagra d designation to describe either a tree or a horse is pointless because they are three-dimensional shapes. So a particular...

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Make my old saddle fit my new horse. Please.

I 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 di buying viagra in mexico fferent horse. So, although it might be a bit repetitive, I thought I make a few more notes on the subject. ...

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Resistant to Research; Impervious to Logic, Part 2

I don’t actually need to be able to see my own liver to grasp how important it is to me.  I’m going to go out on a limb here and venture a guess that healthy livers are pretty similar to one another, and if yours uk viagra online isn’t up to snuff, you won’t have to see it to know it. That is absolutely not the case with the tree inside a saddle.   As saddle fitters, we really do...

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The battle for the soul of the saddle fitter

It is my impression that virtually every saddle fitter I have ever met has a genuine concern for the comfort of the horse.  It is thus fantastically frustrating that we are lacking a science-based, unified theory of correct saddle fitting.  M buy viagra online ost of the time we don’t really know what is optimal for a particular horse and we have to rely on personal experience to...

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