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Kenzo

Kenzo

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Its time to celebrate, why?

Because I've actually found a saddle to fit sh*tbag, *three cheers*....hip hip hurrrrrrray!

Yes my cut & shut horse as I like to call him (shoulders like a bull, short straight back) basically front end like an elelphant and the rest of him is like a mule *grins* has a saddle that fits him, that I'm (baring in mind I'm a fuss pot) really happy with.

Thanks to my OH (I damanded a £1000 out of him this morning) I was able trail to over a very good saddler who has more saddles than you can shake a stick at, armed with my template, past saddle fitting info etc, bored the poor saddler to death with my abnoral shaped horse, describing what I want, what I don't want, what doesnt fit, what the tree has to be like, yada yada by this time I was getting some puzzled looks, a lot ''hmmm arrr yeah, right, hmmmmm, I see,'' then he had a good old rummage around pulled out three saddles and told me to give them a try.

And the scary thing is, all three fitted pretty much very well, but settled one that gave me a bit knee support, so I'm now the proud owner of a nice brown (yuk) yeah brown! IDEAL saddle.

Brown doesnt suit him but who cares what colour it is if it fits...well for the time being.

Only problem now is, I need brown girth oh and a bridle to match!

Sorry rather a boring post but its such a relief to actually find something that fits him correctly.

I shall be celebrating with a bottle of wine this evening when I get home, thats the good news, that bad news is I'll owing the OH sexual favours for the next couple of months until I've paid him back, well half of it!
 
Yes its a lovely saddle, its only second hand mind you, as I know he'll change shape when he starts working properly, but at least its something I'm finally happy with and I can now bring him back to work, because I was not prepaired to ride him with something that wasnt 100%, even if other saddle fitters said something was ok, ok is not good enough, they either fit or they dont.

May only put me on for a month or so, but he's not been ridden for 9 months (although he's done long reining and some lunge work this year) so last week was the first time I was back on him (when I tried another out) so I was really pleased with him, stood like a rock at the mounting block, remember his manners etc, no looning about, very settled, you can't ask for more than that.

Shod last week, again not a peep out of him with the farrier (had his shoes removed over 9 months ago too) so I was pleased with that too, so hopefully slowly onwards and upwards now he's had some chill out time.

Next thing, back person and dentist and see how his hormones go this summer, hopefully we'll at least get a dressage W&T test out him at some point this summer, which will more than suit me down to the gound.
 
Edited to say - I tried a Farrington saddle too and the other was a Ideal also but a WH saddle, just thought I'd mention which other makes they were, just in case anyone has had similar problems with horses a similar shape to him. Saddler said Ideal saddles have a straighter tree, similar to the Frank Baines Balance saddles, which also fit him well.
 
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