Manor saddle

[Detoxlover]

Hello I have a manor saddle second hand for my boy it’s fits him perfect at 1st but as he got fiter it’s starting to get tight at the wither I was wondering if you could get it widened? I want to find saddlers around my area but there no point if you can’t widen them.

 

[sbloom]

First I'll not that tight either side at the top of the panel, ie right beside the wither, actually usually means it's too wide, too narrow gives tightness further down in most tree shapes on most horses

Manor saddles are a fairly standard small workshop English saddle and I'd be very surprised if it's on anything other than a wooden tree. They can be adjusted a little, but over 5 years old and personally I won't narrow them, over 10 years old and I'd be very unlikely to widen, and that all depends on how much it's been adjusted already too, so you may be taking a risk having it altered. You could see if you can find a contact for the workshop, if there's an ID number on the saddle, and see how old it is, but I doubt they'd have a history for it to see how much it's already been adjusted.