So glad the saddle fitter came out!

[Sol]

Just to say that I am so glad the saddle fitter came out today!
She started off by looking at my 2 saddles, and after a bit of fiddling we decided that the jumping saddle looked good, just I'd been putting it on slightly too far forward as I'm not used to his silly giraffe neck and withers

Then looked at the dressage saddle, again not bad, but really too wide... (even though supposedly, they had the same plate in

)

So, she was going to change the gullet in the Dressage to see what it looked like (bates saddles) ... only she unscrewed it to find that the tree point was BROKEN

Also, the supposed 'medium' plate was rusted through and now the equivalent of extra wide or wider...

Gullet was last checked/changed in about Oct/November, so it obviously broke between then, probably due to the pressure of the gullet stretching as the saddle isn't marked at all... but it's been doing the poor pony no favours!

Anyway, all off to be checked & fixed now. We're pretty certain that it IS NOT a Wintec gullet, as it did come with the saddle (was definitely the same width as Wintec Medium gullet then though as I checked!) but we'll see....

But a lot happier now it's done, and I guess it's cheaper to have a saddle fixed than buy new!

Milkshake (any flavour!

) if you read through that

 

[Paint it Lucky]

That's a bit worrying! Glad it is being sorted now though. Hope horsey's back isn't too sore after wearing that? Was it a new saddle when you got it?

 

[ester]

do we think said horsey might like dressage now then..........

I think that might be quite telling that it was the dr saddle.

 

[Sol]

Isn't it just...! She didn't think he seemed too worse for wear, had a feel of his back and although he tensed up a little bit at some points, she said that this would probably be ok soon again now the problems are gone and there was nothing major

But will be keeping a close eye on him!
No, second-hand :/

 

[Sol]

haha, I can keep wishing

Somehow, I don't think it's going to work like that

Gay he might be, but 'dancing' just isn't his thing right now!

Maybe when he's grown up a little! (I'm not going to give up!)