Re: fitting a saddle to a young horse

[Laney Humphrey <laneyh@mbay.net>]

Hi Heidi -
	I agree that some back shapes are really hard to fit but why do you think
that a badly conformed back will change more than a well built back?  And
why wouldn't the change still be fairly predictable from the original shape
of the back, good or bad?
Laney
At 12:32 AM 1/6/99 EST, you wrote:
>Depends on the horse.  A horse with a really well conformed back will not be
>difficult to fit in the first place, and will be able to carry a variety of
>saddles.  This likely will not change, even as the horse becomes fit.
>However, a horse with a poorly conformed back may be very difficult to fit,
>and may change shape so drastically that the horse may well need multiple
>saddles over the course of its conditioning.
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>Heidi
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