C1airey
Well-Known Member
Quick question: on a horse who has had an ill-fitting saddle which has marked the coat, would you expect the white patches to sweat as normal under a well-fitting saddle? I came across something online the other day to suggest that the dry patches might persist for as long as the hair remains white but I can't find it again now.
We started having issues with saddle fit towards the end of last summer and when his winter coat came in, it showed a faint mark behind the withers. He ended up off games for other reasons and when he came back into work, I rode him bareback. As his summer coat has come in, I'm horrified to see that the white patches have gotten more pronounced. He's now under a new saddle which we've had for a month. At first, all was well but having upped his work so that he's getting sweaty I'm noticing a void in the sweat patch where the white bits are - not exactly bone dry, but certainly not as soggy as the rest of him. Is this the ghost of the old saddle back to haunt us? Or does this saddle also not fit? Needless to say, we're back to bareback until the saddle-fitter cometh.
Horse hasn't complained at all and has just cracked on with whatever I've asked of him. I could weep with guilt and frustration
We started having issues with saddle fit towards the end of last summer and when his winter coat came in, it showed a faint mark behind the withers. He ended up off games for other reasons and when he came back into work, I rode him bareback. As his summer coat has come in, I'm horrified to see that the white patches have gotten more pronounced. He's now under a new saddle which we've had for a month. At first, all was well but having upped his work so that he's getting sweaty I'm noticing a void in the sweat patch where the white bits are - not exactly bone dry, but certainly not as soggy as the rest of him. Is this the ghost of the old saddle back to haunt us? Or does this saddle also not fit? Needless to say, we're back to bareback until the saddle-fitter cometh.
Horse hasn't complained at all and has just cracked on with whatever I've asked of him. I could weep with guilt and frustration