Re: Wintecs vs. Thorowgoods

[Niccolai Murphy <niccolai_m@yahoo.com>]

Okay, I'll throw in my two cents on this one. I don't particularly
like to post negative stuff.

Have two Thorowgoods (all purpose synthetic) and on Wintec (all
purpose synthetic). The Wintec never worked on any of our horses and
started to fall apart in the time it took us to find an alternative.

The Thorowgood worked for a while in the early days on our TB, until
he muscled up. We needed to use a very thin pad for it to work. A
thicker pad made it pinch his withers. The saddles seem to work fine
on some of the smaller - slightly sway backed ponies in this
neighbourhood.

The Thorowgoods got a lot more use and held up much better than the
Wintec.

All our horses are fairly beefy, even our little gal has a pretty wide
spine and they all need saddles with a wide deep gullet.

The Wintec hasn't been used in over a year and I only pull out one of
the Thorowgoods when one of the other saddles is being worked on and
we have all three horses out at the same time.






---heidi sowards <ribbitttreefrog@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 
> Hi, as a side note to the Wintec thread. (I am considering a Wintec
> endurance model) I am curious about the Thorowgood. (They seem to be
> well liked, lightweight, come in brown as an alternative, and have a
> good reputation.) What if any is the difference in them as far as fit,
> construction, etc? They also seem to be economical as well as the
> Wintec. They are featured on the page next to the Wintecs in the State
> Line Catolog. I read good things about both in an old issue of Horse
> Illustrated. I'm sorry you had bad luck with your Wintec Joe, but so
> far, you have the only bad report. Does anyone know if the Thorowgood
> has an endurance model? I noticed in the State Line Catalog that the
> tree comes in reg. and wide. I would think with an arab that reg. is
> what I would need. Any input here folks? This is my biggest problem,
> saddle fit. We have even resorted to just riding with a bareback pad,
> but I have to admit, I want a saddle sometimes! 
> 
> Thanks, 
> Heidi, Donte and Classy Bey (who is currently on the confirmation
> board of AI - check him out!)
> 
> 
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