Wednesday, September 29, 2010

I made a little change to our bareback rig by adding a pad with spine relief. It made a big difference for my seat bones, and I assume Tonka felt a difference too.

Not a very pretty color scheme, and it slipped back. I thought the pad might cause slippage issues. But I also didn't cinch up very tight so that may be the problem. (The cinch is a wide roper cinch for stability. It's my sister's but I might have to get myself one.)
This shows the bottom of the pad, to show the thickness of the foam inside. It didn't take much to make a big difference in comfort.

The saddle I'm considering trying out is called an EZ fit saddle. There are a lot of things I like about it. And it's not terribly funny looking, compared to some of the other treeless saddles out there.
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4 comments:

  1. T.L. Merrybard9:21 PM

    Just one thing... that horse on the left of their webpage is well under weight and looks wormy too. I just wonder if people who can't see that can read horses well enough to make a good treeless saddle? Doesn't matter if the horse is theirs or not, if it was my product I wouldn't be showing it on a thin horse.

    How about a Tucker trail saddle? They seem to have lots of trees to suit different shaped horses, and the tree is flexible. I had thought to get one of those and ship it to Oz for my draft cross if I ever wanted a western style saddle. They have a mustang owner/rider they are sponsoring on their blog so their saddles do fit one mustang at least. :)

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  2. Andrea -Mustang Saga9:34 PM

    Yeah, I spent a lot of time looking at that horse and wondering why the heck someone was breeding her (there's a foal in the photo too). She's probably a sweetheart, but she's not very pretty.

    I don't like what I see in Tucker saddles - forward hung stirrups with a seat that puts you way back on the horse's loin. But I'll look at them again, maybe I'm remembering them wrong.

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  3. Linda8:47 AM

    Thanks for the pictures of the bareback pad and comments. So, you don't recommend the blanket underneath?

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  4. T.L. Merrybard7:11 PM

    Actually you are right, Andrea, I ended up going off Tuckers (and it is not them that have the flexible tree either!) but now I can't for the life of me remember which ones I did like. Lucky I like my all purpose english saddle so much. :P

    That mare looks sweet and like she badly needs an upgrade of owner!

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