Chelseakerr
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Okay so my pony has a 17 inch saddle and its 8 inches D to D.
So I was wondering - would this be small, medium or wide?
Thank you
So I was wondering - would this be small, medium or wide?
Thank you
What size of saddle??
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cobgoblin
Bugrit! Millennium hand and shrimp.
The fit of a saddle varies from make to make. A medium in one make may well be a med/ wide in another. You cannot tell from measuring from D to D.
Your own saddle should have the width fitting stamped next to the length.
Your own saddle should have the width fitting stamped next to the length.
Chelseakerr
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sbloom
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Small medium and wide is not a saddle fitting scale. And not all saddles are stamped, especially as wooden trees can be widened or narrowed a little by a saddle fitter. Read up about d to d measurements, they're really not that helpful as where the dees are placed varies, the pommel shape affects the measurement, you need the ANGLE of the tree points to know the width. If you are selling them take a photo of the front of the saddle possibly with a tape measure across for those that insist on still using d to d, and the scale of widths is narrow, narrow-medium (neither of which are really suitable widths to be healthy for a horse), medium, medium-wide, wide, then extra wide and upwards (XXW, XXXW etc). Wide can also be a 4 fit, with numbers going up and down one for every change in fit eg XXW is a 6 fit. European brands often use cm which is the measurement between the points, not possible to measure inside a saddle, and depends on the lnegth of the points to be able to tell you what width angle the saddle really is, a 30cm saddle with long points is narrower than a 30cm tree with short points.