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So Regg has decided he doesn't like his saddle anymore.
People who were JUST gchatting with me about the Prestige D1 will think that this is a rather convenient conclusion to suddenly reach, but I swear this has been brewing for over a month.
Over a month ago (just so we're clear), I started to feel that there was really too much pressue on the shoulder points, and Regg was starting to get a little weird about certain things, and Regg was also starting to get little dry spots after a longer ride.
Not to worry! I told myself. This is why we have an adjustable gullet!
So I emailed the saddle fitter (who I have been trying to get out since like, June, by the way, to further reiterate that this is not just me going, "OMG, someone posted new saddle technology on FB!", except she is seven hours away and other customers cancel thus making the trip not worthwhile or other customers don't cancel but then her transmission blows, le sigh le sigh, what the everloving why must I live on the edge of the known world) for a new gullet and in the meanwhile started borrowing someone else's saddle to tide us over.
Eventually I emailed the saddle fitter again like, "This gullet...it will be arriving...when?" And then she was like, OH RIGHT, and three days later it arrived.
So I put it in the saddle and rode Regg around for the first time in a month not in the borrowed saddle, and he was basically like, OH HAYULL NO, AND LET ME STROMPLE ABOUT WHEN YOU ASK FOR CANTER LEGYIELD RIGHT FOR EMPHASIS.
So, le sigh le sigh.
With Alph gone I have that saddle to trade in, and I'm guessing the hunt saddle for Regg is also no bueno anymore, considering that the horse has exploded size-wise and that saddle is not adjustable and was made for the horse he was too years ago, and it is ALSO leaving major dry patches, so theoretically I could just hand her all my saddles with a heavy sigh and say, "Just fix it, please, preferably not with just one $4,000 saddle but do what you have to do."
I said I was perfectly happy to drive to meet her somewhere on the weekend, to avoid the transaction cost of trying to get her to come all the way out here, so hopefully I can just borrow the borrowed saddle for one more week until I go away for two weeks, and then when I get back something can be done.
People who were JUST gchatting with me about the Prestige D1 will think that this is a rather convenient conclusion to suddenly reach, but I swear this has been brewing for over a month.
Over a month ago (just so we're clear), I started to feel that there was really too much pressue on the shoulder points, and Regg was starting to get a little weird about certain things, and Regg was also starting to get little dry spots after a longer ride.
Not to worry! I told myself. This is why we have an adjustable gullet!
So I emailed the saddle fitter (who I have been trying to get out since like, June, by the way, to further reiterate that this is not just me going, "OMG, someone posted new saddle technology on FB!", except she is seven hours away and other customers cancel thus making the trip not worthwhile or other customers don't cancel but then her transmission blows, le sigh le sigh, what the everloving why must I live on the edge of the known world) for a new gullet and in the meanwhile started borrowing someone else's saddle to tide us over.
Eventually I emailed the saddle fitter again like, "This gullet...it will be arriving...when?" And then she was like, OH RIGHT, and three days later it arrived.
So I put it in the saddle and rode Regg around for the first time in a month not in the borrowed saddle, and he was basically like, OH HAYULL NO, AND LET ME STROMPLE ABOUT WHEN YOU ASK FOR CANTER LEGYIELD RIGHT FOR EMPHASIS.
So, le sigh le sigh.
With Alph gone I have that saddle to trade in, and I'm guessing the hunt saddle for Regg is also no bueno anymore, considering that the horse has exploded size-wise and that saddle is not adjustable and was made for the horse he was too years ago, and it is ALSO leaving major dry patches, so theoretically I could just hand her all my saddles with a heavy sigh and say, "Just fix it, please, preferably not with just one $4,000 saddle but do what you have to do."
I said I was perfectly happy to drive to meet her somewhere on the weekend, to avoid the transaction cost of trying to get her to come all the way out here, so hopefully I can just borrow the borrowed saddle for one more week until I go away for two weeks, and then when I get back something can be done.