Recent content by mckulley1

I'm on the NH/MA border. I actually bought this saddle from a lady in the UK. I just feel like I can't get my legs around her. While it seems to fit her really rather perfectly, I am having trouble getting broad enough through the pelvic and hips to be comfortable in it. I don't know if there is...

I have an Irish Draught Sport Horse mare who is in an Icelandic Portos by Stubben. It's the perfect fit for her. BUT, not necessarily for me. I really need a narrow twist, I feel like I'm riding a barrel and it makes me perch on my inner thighs. The other issue is that this Icelandic model only...

Yes, it does move backward. Her girth groove is forward, where you want to sit the saddle is always forward. Because that's not where it actually should be, so it travels backward, to where it wants to be, which puts it at conflict with her girth groove location and the girth always has an angle...

She was a little butt high here. But structure is the same. I had her in an Ideal VSD Event but it became too narrow with work. I had pressure points at the wither and over the first lumbar.

Yes, it always has to get pulled forward. It doesn't slip back "badly" but will certainly. Usually at the stirrup cup I have to get off and pull it back forward.

Yeah, it may be, since I wasn't there. But truthfully when you first put a saddle on her where you "think" it will sit and where it DOES sit are two different issues. She's very short backed over all, and because she's flatter after the wither rather than dipped, with a very forward girth...

SBloom did you see the photos I posted with a hoop tree sitting, no girth? Scroll up to view.

This is a Duett with a hoop tree. No pad. NO GIRTH. Just sitting. They didn't take a photo from the side, sorry!

Love all this information. Unfortunately I am not in a position to buy custom or brand new. The only saddle fitter in the area is going to be using USA brands on my obviously UK style Irish mare. And I would hope after 25 years of ownership and riding, I could at least figure out a place to...

Pinkyboots, My concern with a hoop tree is that it would conflict with her withers? She does have them. They aren't "high" but she's by no means mutton withered. She's sort of like two horses put together LOL. In the shoulders she's very average. Her wither tracing puts her at needing a 5 inch...

It's not the flat SEAT that I"m looking for. But a flat TREE. This mare doesn't have much shape leaving her withers. She has withers, average ones. But she goes very straight towards the hips. Not much curve. SO the curved or semi curved trees cause pressure points. I like a deep seat myself...

Does anyone know of a Dressage saddle manufacturer that produces a FLAT tree saddle with EXTERNAL knee blacks? I don't need a native/cob or hoop tree, but I do need a wide tree. I was looking heavily at the Ideal Suzannah's for their flat tree and wide models but they only have internal knee...

I'm in the USA, so no. I "think" if I had to resell I could, maybe not the fastest thing but there are many ladies in the area who ride those wide haflingers so it might be of interest? I'd prefer it worked for me though, LOL!

That's my fear as well. I'm trying to fit an Irish Sport Horse who is more like a warmblood/tb through the withers and shoulders. She has an average wither, MW or so and she's not enormously broad through the shoulders, average or above average. BUT, she broadens through the back like a...