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Oh  my goodness  Jonni..

this sounds sooo true to me... I have  had Sharon Saare come and fit Del 
Passo and she used her bare trees to fit him and i could   SEE that it fit 
him great. I rode him for a little less then a year...he then started 
"TALKING " to me... Wouldn't stand still for mounting and just gave me the 
"look"  things like that... I then bought a Impression pad... rode him with 
the Saare saddle ...no pressure points whatsoever ??? what the heck i 
thought ??

Then i bought another Bob Marshall endurance saddle ..... I could NOT 
believe the difference in my horse...no head tossing and stands nicely still 
for mounting... I can even get a flying lead change...it's unbelievable ... 
. and i am no lightweight....
But Passo loves the BM saddle ....we shall see how he does at the Bluebonnet 
ride. :-)

Diana :-)
TX


> From: Tx Trigger <txtrigger@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Ridecamp" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [RC]   Another Freeform story!-Just the facts 'maam! Date: Sat, 10 
> Mar 2007 16:46:48 -0600
>
> Lynn G. posted: >>>No doubt, you know how "any change" will often make a
> horse happy. The key is whether or not it still works for them 6 months 
> from
> now.<<<
>
> I was recently reminded of that. I think I told Lynn my story at convention
> as I was sitting in saddles at the Reactor Panel booth.
>
> I've been using a Bighorn on Hank for almost 3 years. Never has had a sore
> back, finished Tevis if that makes the saddle any more worthy, and has
> competed a bunch of NATRC rides where they check the back extra careful,
> just waiting to ding a point of your horse shows any pain. But with the
> winter coat, he popped some white hairs, so I knew that it was time to
> retire the Bighorn, as it was no longer fitting, even though I thought we
> were still doing fine. But, here is where Lynn's statement rings so true.
> Hank is goofy at times, and when I'd go to saddle him at times, he would
> look at me like he had never seen a saddle in his life, snort at me, swing
> away, and I had to do the "chase the horse and fling the saddle on his back
> dance". Thought nothing of it more than he was being himself.  But, one day
> I was messing with one of our other saddles, doing some rides with the
> impression pad, putting saddle on, off, on, ride, off, on , ride, off. 
> Spent
> about 1:30 out there. Had a HORRIBLE fit. Huge pressure points on each side
> of his withers after only 20 min. rides with the pad. This saddle fit worst
> then the Bighorn, so I decided to toss it back on him again. He had been
> standing all AM, never moving away as I saddled him, until that Bighorn 
> came
> out, and was heading to his back. He swung away, snorted, and looked  at me
> like I was the devil trying to climb aboard. ding-ding-ding.  He was
> talking, I was not listening. Got the other saddle back out, and he stood
> like a rock, no reaction as I put it on him, even though I KNOW it has a
> horrible fit. But, it is a different fit than the Bighorn, and he has not
> learned to avoid it yet because it hurts.
>
> Indeed, any change can make them stop previous reactions. I have heard so
> many people say they tried a >>>enter name of saddle here<<< for a ride, 
> and
> they KNOW that the horse loved it. Maybe they just had not figured out yet
> that they didn't like it, because they were just happy the regular saddle
> that hurt was not on them.I see many of these same people selling said
> "perfect" saddle months down the road, as it was not as perfect as they
> thought.
>
> And of course, there is no one perfect saddle that will work for every
> horse, every rider. if that was true, we would not have so many shopping
> options in saddlery, eh? LOL
>
> Jonni in TX
>
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