So, the search for the ideal saddle for both Tobes and I continues!!
Tobes won't be in work immediately, whilst his tendon is mended, after his accident hooking his halter up to his door, we need probably x rays - although he is masses better than he was and after a fairly quick recovery period, he clearly hasn't fractured anything in his neck, he has bruised something, and is not quite right, so will probably need to get x rays and the back person out.
So, saddles we have had to date - Thorogood - ghastly. English leather saddle - fitted by someone who has no idea, and caused him to buck - IMO, too curved a tree. Freeform treeless - lovely saddle, but slipped, so no good and rubbed him out at the back. Heather Moffett Vogue. Ghastly expensive saddle which caused pressure points and I had to get a bean bag numnah which made me sit a 100 miles off his back. Black Country cob saddle, WH. Properly fitted by saddle fitter. I loved it, he preferred it to the Vogue, but bucked a lot in it. Hilton saddle, really wide panels. He likes it very much. Fitted only by me, but he says what he likes. No bucking, but I am not that comfy in it. Obviously we will use it til we can find something we both like, but what else is wide panelled and comfy?
Tobes won't be in work immediately, whilst his tendon is mended, after his accident hooking his halter up to his door, we need probably x rays - although he is masses better than he was and after a fairly quick recovery period, he clearly hasn't fractured anything in his neck, he has bruised something, and is not quite right, so will probably need to get x rays and the back person out.
So, saddles we have had to date - Thorogood - ghastly. English leather saddle - fitted by someone who has no idea, and caused him to buck - IMO, too curved a tree. Freeform treeless - lovely saddle, but slipped, so no good and rubbed him out at the back. Heather Moffett Vogue. Ghastly expensive saddle which caused pressure points and I had to get a bean bag numnah which made me sit a 100 miles off his back. Black Country cob saddle, WH. Properly fitted by saddle fitter. I loved it, he preferred it to the Vogue, but bucked a lot in it. Hilton saddle, really wide panels. He likes it very much. Fitted only by me, but he says what he likes. No bucking, but I am not that comfy in it. Obviously we will use it til we can find something we both like, but what else is wide panelled and comfy?
