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 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 moreHere is a frequently asked question: My horse has been out of work for three months due to an injury. The saddle was not fitting before the injury and now she is ready to get back into work. Will the weight she gained and loss of muscle impact the wither tracing? A few months out of work probably would not affect the back template much unless the weight gain has been pretty pronounced. ...
read moreI was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know. — Mark Twain High maintenance? Moi? Several times a week, at least, I get inquiries about whether it would be possible to “re-fit” a saddle that was originally purchased for a different horse. I never know how to answer this, except to say that there is nothing black and white about fitting saddles,...
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