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Here I disagree because not all ladies are built the same! All the
ladies in my circle of riding friends, about 8 of us, all ride Sport
Saddles. As some of you know, the "twist" of the saddle becomes the
shape of the horses back. If you have a narrow-backed horse, you
will have a narrow twist. If you ride a draft, your legs will be
spread out quite far and it will feel like riding the old oil drum!
Some of us have no problems with this! I have also talked to some
older ladies (I include myself here, being over 40), that have minor
arthritis in their hips, and cannot tolerate having their legs
spread this much. My friends and I seem to have adapted to this;
having pain in the hips is not an area I ever get sore.
Keep in mind, that the tree of a saddle has to fit the configuration
of the horses back, and if it is a wide-backed horse, the only way
to achieve a saddle with a narrow twist is to raise the seat higher
and higher. One of my objections to the Wintec Sport Endurance I
tried prior to the Sport Saddle (it has a very narrow twist), is
that the end result was that the seat of the saddle ended up being
6 to 8 inches higher than the horses back! The saddle was very
unstable and given to shifting sideways (sound familiar, Truman?),
and the rider was perched up too high.
If you start looking at how saddles sit on horses, you will be able
to see this-
Of course, one of the reasons I may be comfortable in the Sport
Saddle is that I rode bareback for years.
Karen
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