Why was I still surprised?

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When the saddles were fitted the horse looked like this:
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Now he looks like this:
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So why did I still say 'are you sure?' when the saddler told me today that neither of my saddles fit and both are too narrow. I knew about the dressage one, but thought the jump one was 'ok'. Apparently not. Clearly horse knew that the credit cards had literally just this week been paid off...
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Hmm isn't it?! Only 18 months separate those two pics, amazing what curing ulcers and correct work can achieve isn't it....

I got two of my saddler's own brand ones, which roughly conform to an Ideal like lec has and an ideal dressage saddle - I think he uses their trees and does his own panels. They are beautiful, though they flipping should be!
 
Stilton I used Nat.

Kerilli - thanks, but I still wouldn't use that one to sell him - he's doing something most odd with his near hind, it's slightly angled towards us and it makes him look a little bit strange I think!

I am still a bit shell shocked (not as much as I will be when the statement arrives though!) - the 'old' saddles were brand new 18 months ago *weeps quietly*
 
Fingers crossed your new saddles do the trick, I get scared each time I have the saddler out but agree it has to be done, Well done on all the correct schooling its amazing what happens
 
He looks fab SC
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i feel sick everytime my saddler comes for this very reason
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all my friends have horses that have off the peg saddles which they pick up second hand cheaply...me, i have to have them made to measure
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He might stop trying to bite me when I tack up or appear with the saddles too....though he does that when I have nothing with me so perhaps not hey?!

I too will be waiting with baited breath to see how he goes in them - have to do arena eventing tomorrow in just the jump one as I don't have a full wool-lined saddlecloth which the dressage one needs to pad it out a bit until he finishes muscling up in the right places.

It does explain why he was a bit hollow and rushed SJing last night - I have a feeling the session on Monday made him sore and so last night he wasn't keen on playing nicely. Hopefully we can rectify that tomorrow.
 
He was amazingly good Stilton, I was really impressed. Though a bit peeved as all the things I mentioned when I bought the dressage saddle were things which were wrong with it and I did not have the courage of my convictions at the time and thought the saddler was the professional. Grrr. My bad, next time I will know I am right - N said to me I was spot on with everything I said about every saddle we tried, and that fitting is not rocket science, it is knowing what is right for each horse AND rider and making the tweaks for them both so they are perfect which is the art!
 
How much too narrow are these saddles, I have Ideal saddles and my saddler can widen or narrow my trees when my horse changes shape, when I brought a new Event saddle it felt funny to ride in when my saddler came to look at it the tree was twisted, so she untwisted it and it has been fine every since. If your saddler makes saddles can you ask him if he can widen the trees to make them fit.
 
We had that conversation eoe - the answer was no, he was not happy to widen them to make them fit - he felt they weren't balanced on the horse to start with so widening them would mean I had wider unbalanced saddles and would not solve the problem entirely. I am happy to trust his judgment on that one - he makes his own saddles on the ideal tree so knows them very well. The first thing I asked was whether or not he could alter them in any way to make them ok, he wasn't happy to do it.
 
Blimey, what beefcake!!

He looks so much more filled out and much, much stronger.
Your poor wallet though- 2 new sadles has gotta hurt
 
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