These photographs show one huge reason to have a truly adjustable saddle. This is a Schleese saddle belonging to a wonderful client in Mexico City who had the unfortunate experience of her horse flipping over on top of the saddle (no rider). She had the saddle x-rayed and there was no damage to 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 […]