Thanks for all the replies, much appreciated.
Re the questions,
I'm not the horsey one so I didn't check the saddle didn't protrude beyond the ribs, but it was fitted to her by the saddler having been specifically made/bought in for her.
His replacement saddle was the same make /model...
We bought a new saddle in September/October last year for a full up 148 five-year-old pony we bought a couple of months previously, due to none of our existing saddles fitting her. The pony is a show-jumper, with high-class eventing parentage, and is liveried in a 20+ horse yard. We got a...