Numnah advise needed please

[minimoo]

Hi,

I wonder if anyone can give me any advise on which numnah to use please.

My horse currently has a wintec changeable gullet sadle with the black gullet. He has lost only a small amount of weight recently which is just causing the back of his saddle to slightly move around. The front is correctly fitted with current gullet.

He already has a bartl sheepskin numnah for the padding but the back lady told me to also put a poly pad underneath that to help pad out the back until he fills out abit.

Im just wondering if this would help due to the back padding or am i best to use a poly pad? I would have thought a poly pad has more chance of slipping off.

http://www.robinsonsequestrian.com/...ec-raised-back-comfort-pad-grey-one-size.html

Any advise would be much aprechiated.

Thanks

 

[dianchi]

Personally i would go with a poly pad, have never found those polystryne pad things useful or confortable for the horse.

 

[sbloom]

If the gullet is the right width but the saddle is wiggling then the tree/bars is the wrong shape for your horse and causing instability. I'd not risk going on what your back lady says to be honest, the sheepskin will already cushion him from movement, another pad will do NOTHING to correct the fit and may make it worse - using too much padding under the middle of the saddle can leave you perched and the saddle even more unstable. A rear riser will not stabilise the back of the saddle but will unbalance it, putting too much weight down the front of the saddle, if it is currently in correct balance. You need to think about how you stop a rocking horse from rocking but keep it level, that is the closest analogy, If you simply jack up the back (with quite a thick part of the pad still under the middle of the saddle where you want very little padding) it's not going to be anywhere near level.

Padding for a too curvy seat needs shim pockets front and back and very careful shimming but you might need a new saddle and so I'd recommend you have a saddle fitter out. Failing that have a look on Youtube for Mattes shimming videos, they're the pads I use and recommend and there are some examples of shimming for a too curvy tree shown on one of them.