TarrSteps
Well-Known Member
This is more a "life in the UK" query than an actual question.
Where I come from the older style Passier gp/ap/whatever you want to call it type saddle is the saddle of choice (or at least of desire) for starting youngsters etc. There are a fair number about (because of lots of older German immigrants perhaps?) and while they have kept their value if you're willing to pay you can find them.
Are they simply not available here? Is it just a case that no one in the UK brought in Passiers 10 or 20 years ago? (But there are lots of Stubben's about . . .) Or is it that people hang on to the ones they've got? (But I've not even seen many here - in Canada every school and breaking yard would have at least one, some schools use them almost exclusively.)
I could just shoot myself for selling my old one. I brought my newer Passier jumping saddle but if I'd known the other would be so hard to replace I would have considered it worth it to bring that one, too. I'm seriously considering buying one in North America and having it shipped!
Eek, this is starting to sound like an agony aunt letter! Anyway, if anyone has any thoughts about where I might look (have perused the internet pretty thoroughly and have better people than me on the job) I'd love to know.
Where I come from the older style Passier gp/ap/whatever you want to call it type saddle is the saddle of choice (or at least of desire) for starting youngsters etc. There are a fair number about (because of lots of older German immigrants perhaps?) and while they have kept their value if you're willing to pay you can find them.
Are they simply not available here? Is it just a case that no one in the UK brought in Passiers 10 or 20 years ago? (But there are lots of Stubben's about . . .) Or is it that people hang on to the ones they've got? (But I've not even seen many here - in Canada every school and breaking yard would have at least one, some schools use them almost exclusively.)
I could just shoot myself for selling my old one. I brought my newer Passier jumping saddle but if I'd known the other would be so hard to replace I would have considered it worth it to bring that one, too. I'm seriously considering buying one in North America and having it shipped!
Eek, this is starting to sound like an agony aunt letter! Anyway, if anyone has any thoughts about where I might look (have perused the internet pretty thoroughly and have better people than me on the job) I'd love to know.
