Sadder before and after video!

Totally different. Before he was like riding through treacle - i was actually thinking of taking him to the vet i was starting to think there was something doing on. I could barely trot him in a 20m circle.

Now, im hardly using my legs at all and hes lovely, forward and free. Hes still a little naughty at times ( i edited out the 10 mins we spend going rather fast in reverse) but when hes going hes really, really lovely to ride.

I wanted to put this up because this is why i think having a saddler is so important!!!!!
 
Lovely horse, nicely coupled, my daughter's eventer looked very similar but yours moves better even with the first saddle.

Does your instructor tell you to have your outside spur on together with the inside leg? If so - a bit different to my dressage lessons though they were many moons ago.
 
I remember your previous post where I mentioned your saddle flapping off his back probably wasn't helping his schooling. Glad to see the change has helped :)
 
I'm glad you put this vid up and that you mentioned the dee to dee measurement.
Measuring dee ring (fall down staples) to dee ring really has no
bearing on the width.
The shape and style of the tree's head and the gullet plate as well
as the style, amount of wear, the depth and amount of flocking in
the panel can be so different from saddle to saddle, even of the same make and what might measure at 10 inches in one style and be classed as wide might be totally different in another style. Each saddler also has different
ideas of where the staples or dees should be. So even 2 saddles of
the same make and model can be different if made by different people.


Oz
 
1stclassalan said:
Lovely horse, nicely coupled, my daughter's eventer looked very similar but yours moves better even with the first saddle.

Does your instructor tell you to have your outside spur on together with the inside leg? If so - a bit different to my dressage lessons though they were many moons ago.
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Thanks for the compliment on my horse - hes very special to me as he is a brother of the grey in my sig! I only got him in november, then he was injured, then i moved house and then i had all the saddle issues. So its only my 4th or 5th time on him post-injury, and the only time buck and rear-free!

Hes green, so im using my outside leg to balance him at the moment.
 
digitalangel said:
Thanks for the compliment on my horse - hes very special to me as he is a brother of the grey in my sig! I only got him in november, then he was injured, then i moved house and then i had all the saddle issues. So its only my 4th or 5th time on him post-injury, and the only time buck and rear-free!

Hes green, so im using my outside leg to balance him at the moment.
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Ah well, early days yet! And no wonder he put a bucks into you really - if he's been living the life of Raleigh, waited on hand and foot without doing any work.

My daughter's mare was... well marish all the time and once took me for a canter - backwards up a bank in the lane and for years after you could see a set of horse pawprints at a crazy angle in the mud a full six feet above the roadway - I was of course horizontal to it at the time! Good fun eh?
 
It's interesting that before the saddle change his tail carriage was lower & he tucked his tail down now & then. After the saddle change his tail is much higher & he doesn't seem to tuck his tail down at all. I wonder if this is an indicator we could all use for back discomfort, anyone know if this always shows up ?
 
Yes theres been no tail twishing and he is definitely carrying himself behind a lot differently - before the back end was going up, not behind him, so he was riding croup high... now hes starting to use his hind end and the difference is phenomenal!
 
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