Best adjustable saddle for a TB?

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Firewell

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I'm need to find a new jumping saddle for Jae. We don't have many fitters here where I am so Ineed a saddle I can fit myself.
Does anyone have any suggestions for adjustable saddles?! Jae has filled out so much his kieffers no longer fit.
They sell the pessoa's here with XCH adjustable trees and they also come with different panels Alto is the one for horses with high withers.
They also have the bates jumping saddle with cair, adjustable gullet and you can adjust the panels apparently as well.
Any thoughts on these two?
Thank you
 
I had the old wintec close contact on Teak and it was a really good fit- she took a wide gullet! So I would go for the bates? Ive ridden in the Bates as well and I do like them, the shim system is great for fine tuning. Best to try the Pessoa and the Bates and see which one suits him better? I took a wider saddle and padded it up, it seems that over there a cc saddle that is wide enough to pad as necessary is the done thing to do?
 
That's interesting! I tried a MW butet on him yesterday and it was awful. Totally the wrong saddle for him.
He's changed shape so much. He's so chunky and muscled now but still with the TB long, high withers. I think the bates like the wintec have quite deep panels? I think that's the key with Jae having it wide enough but with deep enough panels to keep the saddle off of his withers...
 
My ex-racer wears a GFS XCH Thoroughbred with a wide gullet. He has high withers and big shoulders and this saddle suits us both really well. The gullet takes about 1 minute to change too so really easy!
 
Bates are built for TBs; if he had a typical TB profile I would go for this first. However I am not keen on cair. If possible I would get it replaced with flocking but then you have the problem of getting it overflocked. Does anyone on your yard have a bates you can try?
 
I've got a gfs genesis APX for my finer boy, and its a lovely fit. I don't jump but its quite forward cut so don't think it'd be an issue - they're deffo worth a look.
 
I've been told that my pony, rather bizarrely, has a TB-shaped back, and the Wintec/Bates tree shape seems to suit him well. Wintecs are pretty common, so maybe someone near you has one that you can borrow just to see how that tree would suit him?
 
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