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You have discovered one of the most frustrating parts of finding a 
saddle that fits!  Have you thought of doing an Equimeasure mold of your 
horse's back?  Lots of custom saddlemakers ask clients to make them 
now.  I think that one could be used to try saddles in a saddle shop but 
you'd have to be pretty careful because the molds aren't too strong.  A 
saddle fit client of mine talked a tack store located about 50 miles 
away to let her take 3 saddles home (she did have to put them on her 
credit card).  One of them fit just fine.  It was a Crates, but another 
Crates, billed as "wide" was narrower, just like you discovered.
   Good luck finding a good fitting saddle!
Laney

Deblyons54@xxxxxxx wrote:

> I have a wide withered, hard to fit Morgan mare. I've had several 
> different saddles for her and tried lots more. I've found the tree 
> sizes are not standard and I can't go by size. I bought a Tucker 
> saddle for "wide" withers, it wasn't as wide as my Crates with semi 
> Quarter bars, then bought a Crates with a flex tree and full quarter 
> bars, it also isn't as wide as the old Crates with semi Quarter bars. 
> My Abetta saddle with an Arab tree fits her perfect but it is exactly 
> like my friends barrel racing saddle with full quarter bars (which 
> fits nothing like my Crates with full quarter bars, or the "wide" 
> Tucker). I don't think there is a lot of standardization in saddle fit. 




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