Is there a best saddle for kissing spine horses?

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The horse needs to be able to lift his back. If you do a belly lift where is the biggest change in shape in the back? Not at the front under the points (hence I'm not a huge fan of fitting overly wide and padding up, unless the individual horse prefers it) but I do like a tree to be flat through the middle to allow for that change in shape - flat from front to back (tree) and flat from side to side (rails of tree and panel shape). I would probably fit with a really good sheepskin like a Mattes pad too.

He can't do padding, have had a pad under his saddle when we first got him and he hated it. Changed saddlers and his saddle is fitted to him with nothing underneath it and he went so much better. All we use is a thing cotton saddle cloth. He works nicely over his back and will do a nice belly lift according to my physio.

We only found the kissing spines because he was lame on a hind leg.

 

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Reading your posts, it seems you are going to struggle to know if the saddle is really helping or you need a change as your boy seems to be very stoic. Is there any forum or page you can get help from? o

I'm on a kissing spines face book page. Have asked a few questions on there.

This is my problem as our first saddler fitted him with a saddle.That's too long and too narrow, black.plate in a bates, and he was rearing up.because it hurt. Since that was sorted with new saddler he has been completely fine.