i've finally found a saddle that puts my lower leg where it belongs! (a stubben rex, as it happens, same saddle that fixed my lower leg when i was a kid ( Read more... )

I went through the saddle fitting tags quite a ways back and found a lot about fixing problems for high withers, but none for swaybacks so my apologies if this has been touched on and I missed it!

It's been a long, long time since I posted here so here is my problem. I volunteer for a rescue and am leasing (potentially looking into buying) a 3 1/2 ( Read more... )

We're in the process of moving across country and as such I've been going through my things to get rid of anything I can.  I have three white saddle pads I'd like to get rid of.


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 As I've been riding Andie more regularly, I've been noticing that I've been really uncomfortable in my current saddle. It's beautiful, and I love it, except I've come to the conclusion that it doesn't fit me right, and it's causing a lot of my problems with my lower leg and my position in general. So today, I towed a friend along with me to a ( Read more... )

The horse I lease has pretty high withers, and I think my saddle is causing him some discomfort. I've been riding him in a bareback pad alot lately and he seems much happier and more willing to move out. But, one can not show hunters in a bareback pad ( Read more... )

Back with a whole bunch of discussion topics that I would like to hear opinions on ( Read more... )

Those of you in the Mid-Atlantic, what happened to Fall? There was no fall this year. We went from Spring, to wet and warm spring, to winter. WTF ( Read more... )

We have an adorable Halflinger mare at the therapy barn that we like to sometimes use a western saddle on.  The problem is that she is pretty short backed, and many western pads are too long ( Read more... )

So, a few months ago I tried to find a way to embroider or patch a green ribbon onto a saddle pad, to show support for the victims of the genocide in Darfur. It's a cause that I have been active in politically and wanted to bring my support to the barn, also. I never got around to doing it because I have no hand-sewing skills and no access to a ( Read more... )

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