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Re: [RC] Hi ! & a What Saddle to use in Mtns Question - Margaret Dinan

You forgot to include Synergist in this list.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laney" <laneyh@xxxxxxxx>
To: "DRG1" <copper111@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Ride Camp" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 12:51 AM
Subject: Re: [RC] Hi ! & a What Saddle to use in Mtns Question


There are 4 saddlemakers that specialize in custom saddles for endurance
and long distance (& 3 of them are women who actually compete!): Anne
George, Katee Owens (Advantage Saddles), Marilyn Horstmyer (DeSoto
Saddles), and Steve Ray (SR saddles). They can all work with you to
design a saddle that will fit you and your horse and they are
competitively priced.
Laney
They all have websites accessible from the "saddles" link on
endurance.net.

DRG1 wrote:

Hi,

I’m new here <waving Hi!!!>, just getting started in CTR (maybe
endurance in the future).

I’d like to introduce myself, plus ask a question, so heres a little
background…

I used to ride English 3 day eventing (did so for 18 yrs), & rode in a
Stubben Siegfried

(the one they USED to make – 1975 vintage), still have it, beautiful
saddle, but English

(to me) is too hard to ride in the mountains (7000 ft & UGHHH Rocky..)
where I live, work & play.

Got married, hubby only wanted to ride Western so I switched. He ropes,
so

I started too. I have been doing rodeo events since 1992 (competitive
roping).

Have had some fairly severe orthopedic problems (back, hip) this past
yr, (me, not the horse),

so I am no longer able to really ride the Quarter horses anymore
(loping is very difficult on them for me).

Bought a Missouri foxtrotter for the easy gaits & I can canter again!
:^D (VBG)!

So, now I am looking for a saddle. I don’t want to ride English for
the aforementioned reasons,

don’t like western saddles anymore as the “twist” is generally too
wide for my hip,

so I figured a hybrid endurance saddle.

I am thinking the Tucker Equitation Endurance would be a good one, but
I tried the medium tree – didn’t

fit my MFT (too high, 4 fingers under the pommel), & felt the stirrups
were too far forward –

so I was not in a balanced seat, but riding on the cantle. I am
thinking this is cuz the saddle

was too high in front. I am waiting for the wide tree Tucker
Equitation Endurance to come in to try.

But, in the meantime, I am asking, what other endurance type saddles
have a cushy seat (for my back) & a “relatively” narrow twist, & keep
one in a “Balanced” seat to try? Anyone with a gaited horse that’s
used one would be a plus too! J

Thanks all, in advance for your reply, & nice to meet you!




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[RC] Hi ! & a What Saddle to use in Mtns Question, DRG1
Re: [RC] Hi ! & a What Saddle to use in Mtns Question, Laney