I got into saddle fitting because my Polish arab mare has
broad (not just wide) shoulders with a pretty big shoulder rotation. I
spent 3 years trying different saddles and getting a couple custom fit to her,
but she got more and more cranky for saddling, to the point of biting me when I
saddled her. She wouldn’t canter on her left lead or let me post on
her left diagonal. And she pinned her ears any time I asked her to transition
up.
It took about 5 minutes with the Free’n’Easy
saddle to know we’d found the right one for her. She relaxed for
saddling even during the fitting process. In a half mile ride, she let me
post on the left diagonal and took a left canter lead – and most
amazingly for her, she lowered her head, rounded her back and was just
instantly a different horse. I’ll never put any other saddle on
this horse – or really any of my horses.
When I got professionally involved with saddle fitting and
selling tack, I saw many amazing transformations with the Free’n’Easy
saddle. I don’t have the business anymore since I’m running a
boarding facility, but I’ve got 5 FnE’s and won’t part with
any of them! And I just got a new Polish arab gelding that is very broad,
but does not have a particularly wide shoulder angle. There aren’t
many off the shelf saddles that would have worked with him!
