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If you sit on a horse with your fingers under the tree of a regular while they do that you'll feel a pinch if it's digging in. The thing is, I don't believe you *can* get a saddle to stay far enough back to avoid that full shoulder rotation. With my OF the shoulder seems to be able to go under the tree without digging and reach farther. I haven't heard anyone admit they look for that but it's about the only way I can see for a shoulder to really have full movement without digging.  Don't get me wrong, I try to keep my saddle back. I added a billet and use a crupper, but that shoulder is able to get back to the area under the tree in a huge trot.

Angie

-- April <endurancerider@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I found another good website with pictures. One thing that caught my attention was that the saddle fitter picked up the horse's front leg and marked how far back the scapula rotated to find where the saddle should sit.

http://www.tackcollection.com/html/fitting.html

April
Nashville, TN

On 11/2/05, Diane Trefethen <tref@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

While it is certainly possible that you need a wider saddle, another possibility is
that over time, your daughter has been placing her saddle ever so slightly more
forward so it is no longer sitting correctly on her horse.  We have a subconscious