Given she is not backed, the last thing i want is for her to be started in a badly fitting saddle, tried Buddy's 17.5 on her it was far too big. also a heavy rider, i reckon she could be 14 stone as she is much much bigger than me at 12 1/2 stone which Buddy and Suze carry easily but I reckoned I could be a bit heavy for Fleur. Have sent pictures to our saddler of Fleur to get her view ie. Suze's saddle just is short enough and as she said it is absolutely great for the sort of work yu would do but you wouldn't want to do endurance with it.
My friend who does training with her mule and is brilliant knows someone who might be interested, I would be very happy for her to go there as she would be trained NH style and barefoot if possible plus if she thinks the home is good then I would trust her judgement totally. I have a feeling the girl who came to look will say no. Fleur had a tiny bit of heat in her fronts on Sunday, not her hinds, she was trimmed on Friday and overnight got into the other field where there is good grass as the fence was a bit weak due to the storm i.e. no power! I kept them on the yard all day saturday so they pigged themselves on hay and let them out overnight when the worst of the storm was over. This morning she was in the big summer field again, as the electric fence was off as we had no power when i did evenign stables. So while i have a perfectly reasonable explanation for her, Aimee and Buddy having slightly warm feet, of course people can draw whatever conclusions they want from it. They have quite good grass where they are so it would be harder to manage her. I had hoped they might have more of a moorland type farm as that is ideal for her.