Chottsy
Well-Known Member
Hopefully you don't all think I'm a complete fool but I wanted your opinion.
My horse has a patch on his back (where the back of the saddle sits) where the hair looks like it has been rubbed, so is short hair. It's only on one side and he doesn't seem to be particularly sensitive. He's not clipped so it's noticeably shorter.
I had the saddler out yesterday who said it fits fine. So in the last 2 months 2 different saddlers have said it fits well. He is also having the "back lady" on Thursday (she's qualified vet, massage etc etc). Hopefully she can check he's not sore anywhere. Again he had a different "back lady" in December and they said all fine so will be good to get second opinion. (I recently moved yards so that's why I've had different opinions in such a short space of time).
He's a coloured with white and brown hair in this area so I find it hard to compare to other side muscle wise.
He is a fairly one sided horse so I know this could contribute. He likes to lean on the left rein to balance himself and finds right canter difficult to balance. This is improving slowly through long and low work combined with lunging. His walk and trot particularly have really improved and his canter is slowly improving too.
Interestingly I have recently bought a thicker numnah and he goes beautifully in it. So maybe that's contributing but I just don't know.
Any ideas of something to help? Or anything that could be causing it.
Thank you for any ideas (or critique of what I'm doing wrong) he's an 11 year old WBXTB who had been doing very little until I bought him last year April.
My horse has a patch on his back (where the back of the saddle sits) where the hair looks like it has been rubbed, so is short hair. It's only on one side and he doesn't seem to be particularly sensitive. He's not clipped so it's noticeably shorter.
I had the saddler out yesterday who said it fits fine. So in the last 2 months 2 different saddlers have said it fits well. He is also having the "back lady" on Thursday (she's qualified vet, massage etc etc). Hopefully she can check he's not sore anywhere. Again he had a different "back lady" in December and they said all fine so will be good to get second opinion. (I recently moved yards so that's why I've had different opinions in such a short space of time).
He's a coloured with white and brown hair in this area so I find it hard to compare to other side muscle wise.
He is a fairly one sided horse so I know this could contribute. He likes to lean on the left rein to balance himself and finds right canter difficult to balance. This is improving slowly through long and low work combined with lunging. His walk and trot particularly have really improved and his canter is slowly improving too.
Interestingly I have recently bought a thicker numnah and he goes beautifully in it. So maybe that's contributing but I just don't know.
Any ideas of something to help? Or anything that could be causing it.
Thank you for any ideas (or critique of what I'm doing wrong) he's an 11 year old WBXTB who had been doing very little until I bought him last year April.