Connemara owners ... what saddle do you use?

[windand rain]

Farringdon working hunter only thing I dont like about it is it is black the only one I could get to fit but it does fit just about anything as it has a flexible carbon fibre tree Not many around I think it was experimental at the time

 

[Stroppy Mare]

My conny x tb has barnsby omega GP/kanter dressage ... In XW!

 

[Bobbly]

Native Pony WH 'Glen', love it!

 

[CBAnglo]

My very true to type connie is in a saddle company saddle. However, the tree is a 16.5" cob tree (very flat) which should be on a close contact jump/WH saddle but I have altered it so it is in a dressage saddle with dressage flaps etc.

I dont need a truely deep seated dressage saddle so I do not mind that the seat is flat and 16.5" is the very bare minimum I can sit in without my knees coming over the knee rolls so I couldnt get anything deeper anyway. He is too short backed for a 17".

He has changed shape massively in the year I have had him, so I have adjusted this saddle a lot (he has just turned 5).

All of mine are in SC saddles as I was a fitter (dont do anyone else's now, no time with 3 horses and a FT job) however this was the third SC saddle I tried on him (I still have a few ex-demos) and none of them fit so I had to make this one especially for him.

One thing in particular is to note the girthing arrangements. My boy is a truly roly poly sort, so I had the front strap moved forwards and the back strap moved a little further back. He also has a forward girth groove so he is in a shaped girth (albion legend).