Now lets talk about saddle straightness. Put the saddle onto the horse’s shoulder and slide it back into position. Then step carefully behind your horse and make sure he doesn’t bow out to the left or right. What you should see is the horse’s spine aligning with the center of the saddle. So the saddle […]
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Step 8: Saddle Tree Angle
Now I am going to talk about how you can check your saddle’s tree angle, and whether or not it fits the horse’s shoulder angle. We as saddle fitters use a device that measures the shoulder angle. You put the device behind the shoulder and what we want to see is that the upper arm […]
Step 9: Saddle Tree Width
Now we checked our saddles for balance, straightness and tree angle (which is making sure that the saddle has the matching angle to the horse’s shoulder), so now we are going to talk about tree width. Saddles come in different widths and it’s important for the horse’s shoulder to go through. As riders, we want […]