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Re: [RC] boz saddle - Tiffany D'Virgilio

If you want a western saddle that rides more like a dressage saddle, I'd recommend a Synergist. You can get very traditional looking saddles and the stirrups hang under your hips. They are pricey too, but not 5300 like his top of the line saddle. I feel pretty lucky to have a Synergist and now a Freeform. The Synergist is supremely comfortable, I could sit on it all day!
Tiffany
On Apr 1, 2006, at 8:06 PM, Laney Humphrey wrote:


I had a Boz saddle years ago. Boz will certainly tell you that his is the best saddle around. The saddles don't ride at all like english saddles because the stirrups are set very far forward. I haven't looked at his website in years but there used to be pix of him riding and in them you could see where his feet and legs were. He was a student of Monte Foreman who developed that style of riding. If you think you want to show, I would advise you to check with someone affiliated with the shows you plan to enter to make sure his saddles would be appropriate. Some do have horns, but they aren't "traditional" western saddles. Speaking personally, I don't think the flex in his tree is anything wonderful. There are quite a few good western saddles available now; Dave Genaduk of About the Horse, http://aboutthehorse.com/ being the guru of western saddle fitting. Some of his saddle would ride like english (dressage) saddles!
Laney
LAWRENCEC BENNASCONI wrote:
Anyone using boz saddles? I love my dressage saddle but I may be buying a horse that was trained to show western, and I would like to be able to show her. Most western saddles kill my knees, I looked at a flex panel saddle, and the corrector pad, but none of these including the boz are available for a trial, you want to try it, you buy it first. From looking at the boz, it looks like it should ride more like an english saddle, also wondering how the flex tree works. Ask any flex tree manufacturer and they are the greatest thing out, and flex panel saddles are junk. They all think their design is the only one that works. Orthoflex guys hate the reactor panel, but I have owned both, and I love my RP. All of them can tell what is wrong with the other guy's idea, and their own design is flawless.


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