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Re: [RC] [RC] fear and trust - Laurie Durgin

I have an Aussie endurance saddle from Downunder saddlery and I have had some spin and bolt type spooks, and some sideways ones. Has saved me a few times! Only once did it slip a bit sideways, and I dove off after being unable to right it. And that was because I was trying a new pad and girthed too loose, and no crupper on my fat mare... (enter the "fear thread after getting hurt ..".)
I post in it easily, after I took off the stiffer leathers and used wintec webbers instead. Has a flatter bowl type seat too. Has a cutback so works well on my short back gelding.Also not the typical stuffing , but foam type flatter panels to fit his wither tracing. I like english, but wanted more security like western, w/out the horn hooking me . This did the trick. Has english girthing, I did have to cut some of the billet straps off and I subsituted a gel dressage girth(like a 22-24). But it only has one flap, and it is not as long a flap as alot of aussie saddles.
And it only weighs about 15 lbs without sitrrups and leathers.I also like the english stirrup curved bars, as the stirrups will come off in a fall.....I have had to modify some pads to fit it ...


From: "Barbara McCrary" <bigcreekranch@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "larry Miller" <jcmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, "ridecamp" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [RC] fear and trust
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 07:32:26 -0700

Does anyone have either proof or an opinion as to whether an Australian saddle helps keep a rider on a spooky horse better than a regular English saddle? I've never ridden nor even sat on an Australian saddle. They look interesting.

Barbara
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: larry Miller
  To: ridecamp
  Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 2:42 PM
  Subject: [RC] fear and trust


I don't think any horse, no matter how long one rides it or how much trust there is between rider and horse, will ever stop spooking. The spooks may not be as bad, they might not be as often, but if something scares the horse moreinlikely it is going to spook. Even my hubby's calm quarter horse could throw some great spooks. So I suggest one keep one's eyes open, sit deep in the saddle and try to be prepared for that one incident that can happen. We cannot control what happens on trail, along side a road, or whatever. But we can try to ride defensively. A horse is a horse is a horse. Jeanie

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