emmaln
Well-Known Member
Helloo lovely HHOers
I posted a while ago about my new dream team treeless saddle, i was very excited because it had just arrived!!!
I am still a little bit scared of putting into writing how brilliant it actually is i am typing now with trepidation not wanting to jinx anything and i am manically touching wood and whistling!
My tb mare Toffs has been off work for nearly a year with "back problems" and we started her again about 4 months ago very gently she still wqsn't happy and i was at the point of saying she would have to become a very expensive but precious field ornament. Then decidedly fluffy friend offered me the use of her treeless saddle to try i was dubious as i was convinced that problems were not due to saddle as it was newly bought and fitted, and i am not really into parelli and all the gubbins that goes with it (unlike fluffy friend!)
Anyways decided it was worth a try, and there was a marked improvement in Toffs behaviour a long way off perfect but she started to relax slowly but surely so when i saw the advert for the new dream team treeless saddle which had english cut flaps and was only £350 launch price i knew i had to try it!
It came last month and...
Toffs is a changed horse, (touch wood and whistle touch wood and whistle) we are still taking it steady but she is starting to work long and low and we have started doing some lateral work which is amazing because you hardly have to move and she can feel the shift in your weight!
The first time i rode her in it it was peeing it down and really windy the rain was coming through the gap between the school roof and the walls and she was not a happy girly when we first got in there she couldn't stand still and was generally being her usual neurotic self when i finally manged to get on she jogged off to begin with, then she just totally relaxed it was almost like i could hear her thinking "wow that feels different, thats really comfortable"
Since then she has gone from strength to strength and i am so pleased and excited to have the ole if not improved Toffs back!!!
A month on and we have jumped... an activity that even before her back trouble started would send Toffs into a mad panic, she was so so calm and loved every minute of it!
Her canter work is coming on great guns and we have started adding in some flying changes.
I have even booked a lesson on her with my dressage trainer for next week that is how well she is doing, i'm so so proud of her!
sorry to go on for so long but some of you asked how it was! I will endeavour to get some pics of it in action as she improves!
I have also posted this in SY hope thats ok!
I posted a while ago about my new dream team treeless saddle, i was very excited because it had just arrived!!!
I am still a little bit scared of putting into writing how brilliant it actually is i am typing now with trepidation not wanting to jinx anything and i am manically touching wood and whistling!
My tb mare Toffs has been off work for nearly a year with "back problems" and we started her again about 4 months ago very gently she still wqsn't happy and i was at the point of saying she would have to become a very expensive but precious field ornament. Then decidedly fluffy friend offered me the use of her treeless saddle to try i was dubious as i was convinced that problems were not due to saddle as it was newly bought and fitted, and i am not really into parelli and all the gubbins that goes with it (unlike fluffy friend!)
Anyways decided it was worth a try, and there was a marked improvement in Toffs behaviour a long way off perfect but she started to relax slowly but surely so when i saw the advert for the new dream team treeless saddle which had english cut flaps and was only £350 launch price i knew i had to try it!
It came last month and...
Toffs is a changed horse, (touch wood and whistle touch wood and whistle) we are still taking it steady but she is starting to work long and low and we have started doing some lateral work which is amazing because you hardly have to move and she can feel the shift in your weight!
The first time i rode her in it it was peeing it down and really windy the rain was coming through the gap between the school roof and the walls and she was not a happy girly when we first got in there she couldn't stand still and was generally being her usual neurotic self when i finally manged to get on she jogged off to begin with, then she just totally relaxed it was almost like i could hear her thinking "wow that feels different, thats really comfortable"
Since then she has gone from strength to strength and i am so pleased and excited to have the ole if not improved Toffs back!!!
A month on and we have jumped... an activity that even before her back trouble started would send Toffs into a mad panic, she was so so calm and loved every minute of it!
Her canter work is coming on great guns and we have started adding in some flying changes.
I have even booked a lesson on her with my dressage trainer for next week that is how well she is doing, i'm so so proud of her!
sorry to go on for so long but some of you asked how it was! I will endeavour to get some pics of it in action as she improves!
I have also posted this in SY hope thats ok!
