blitznbobs
Well-Known Member
How do people manage this situation?
I’ve bought a youngster that was being hacked out but little else - he’s a lovely genuine horse tbh... so when he arrived I booked a saddler for 8 weeks time and had a mooch round my tack room to see what saddles I had in the mean time - one of my saddles fitted fairly well - just a bit low at the front so I stuck a front riser in it and got on - since then I’ve been schooling and doing some hill work and he’s changed shape beyond all recognition - he started playing up a bit on a schooling session yesterday (very out of character) and the saddle that was too wide for him is now too narrow... now I have a wider saddle and I stuck this on him today and it still seems a bit too wide but at least it doesn’t pinch but if I’d bought a saddle day 1 I’d be seriously p’d off because it would be outgrown- now the second saddle is fully adjustable for width so I’m hoping the saddler when he arrives will tweak this (dressage)one and I’m planning on buying an event saddle as I don’t own any sort of jumping saddle (not left the floor for 15 years) but how do people without a tack room full of saddles cope in this beginning period of work... ??? Do people really buy saddles in that close succession?
I’ve bought a youngster that was being hacked out but little else - he’s a lovely genuine horse tbh... so when he arrived I booked a saddler for 8 weeks time and had a mooch round my tack room to see what saddles I had in the mean time - one of my saddles fitted fairly well - just a bit low at the front so I stuck a front riser in it and got on - since then I’ve been schooling and doing some hill work and he’s changed shape beyond all recognition - he started playing up a bit on a schooling session yesterday (very out of character) and the saddle that was too wide for him is now too narrow... now I have a wider saddle and I stuck this on him today and it still seems a bit too wide but at least it doesn’t pinch but if I’d bought a saddle day 1 I’d be seriously p’d off because it would be outgrown- now the second saddle is fully adjustable for width so I’m hoping the saddler when he arrives will tweak this (dressage)one and I’m planning on buying an event saddle as I don’t own any sort of jumping saddle (not left the floor for 15 years) but how do people without a tack room full of saddles cope in this beginning period of work... ??? Do people really buy saddles in that close succession?