Anyone think of a dressage saddle for these withers?

[Rebels]

Hi, I'm desperately looking for a dressage saddle for my warmblood eventer. This is the best pic i have of him, normally he only has pics with his clothes on so please excuse it!

Hopefully you can see the very high withers that he has making it very hard to get a saddle to sit properly. Any help very much appreciated!

 

[Holly Hocks]

Can't see any photo.....

 

[Rebels]

What about now?

 

[Holly Hocks]

Yep, can see it now. What budget are you thinking?

 

[nedzy]

My horse is a similar shape and has been very difficult to fit. I find that a Thorowgood T4 Hi wither fits, and the Bates Caprilli, but am interested to see what others suggest.

 

[charlie13]

kent and masters made by throwogood full English leather i have the jump version 695 brand new. or kentaur dressage saddle seam to fit well .the kent and masters have the adjustable gullet.

 

[jhoward]

ive used a kieffer gp on a high withered before and love the saddles!

the tree are also fully adjustable.. they do have to be sent away though, not sure of price for the dressage saddles but the gps were around 1k.

http://www.kieffer.net/dressage/

look at the ones that have the cut back pommels

 

[Maddie2412]

albions are great! cut back withers... x

 

[Rebels]

Budget of around £300 second hand. Poss £600 for a new but would have to sell something else first. The pic doesnt show his withers that well, he's 17.3 on his withers but about 16.3 on his back! nedzy - i have heard good and bad about the bates caprilli, has it worked for you?

 

[Holly Hocks]

OP have Pm'd you.

 

[Rebels]

Just had to get off the kieffer website, nearly drooled on the keyboard!

 

[Crazy Friesian]

I have one EXACTLY like that. He is now retired. I had a WOW saddle for him. It really worked for him. But guess they are like Marmite.

I have managed to get WOWS second hand for about £600 FWIW

 

[jhoward]

Just had to get off the kieffer website, nearly drooled on the keyboard!

LOL I love mine! but have to sell it shame its a gp!

have a look on ebay/saddles direct etc you can often find them for around 500 ..

 

[Rebels]

Have been keeping tabs on every wow to go through ebay but even the second hand ones make £900 easily! If i could ride the others in it then possibly but he is very unique, i pretty much made my saddler cry the first time she saw him (he was a hatrack as well which didnt help!)

 

[nedzy]

The Bates fits him really well, just not sure I am truly happy with it, but had an Albion for years until I go current high withered one and really loved that, just wish it would fit him!

 

[Rebels]

Well, now got an extensive ebay watch list! Nedzy, i've heard such mixed reviews about the bates, some people love them, others arent so convinced. I need something to really let him shift his shoulders as his tendency is to hold tension thro his shoulders. What about it doesnt convince you? Pm me if you prefer, I'm very interested to know

 

[Witchy]

My friend is selling her dressage saddle that fitted her very high withered warmblood..... Just a thought: http://www.preloved.co.uk/fuseaction-adverts.showadvert/index-1032156826/079ee95d.html

It's a beautiful comfy saddly and I used to ride in it when I shared her skewbald

 

[jhoward]

the below horse was an 18.2 that not only had bad mucsel wastage from being neglected he had a daft amount of wither! if not a kieffer, id really suggest something with a cutback pommel, they can give you a good few inches of clearence compare to a normal shape.

i think.. and please no one think it is a personal attack as it is not.

but with saddles such as bates, its far to easy to make the gullet to narrow to narrow to get it off the withers, not really taking into account how level the saddle is and the fit at the back (this comes from experiance and being the worlds biggest hater of changable gullets!)

 

[bmw]

My horse has quite high withers and I use Thorowgood High wither for both my GP and Dressage, they are a really nice fit

 

[Rebels]

Here another pic of him shortly after i got him looking very gangly and unmuscled doing yet another trot up.

 

[Rebels]

Thanks for all the help, i have a nice long list of makes to research further. Lost out on a thorowgood t6 high wither tonight on ebay so needed more help on other makes!