Saddle Fitting A – Z

Articles on saddle-fitting are somewhat frequently published in horse magazines, both in print, or online.  The articles are usually combined with a bulleted checklist (9-points, 11-points, and so on) to see if your saddle fits.  However, the most important ingredient to a successful riding recipe is that the rider understands WHY the saddle should fit […]

One of the questions I am often asked by my female clients especially is ‘can wide horses cause my hips to hurt?’ The answer is yes – but there is an easy solution. Too many times the concept of twist of the saddle is misunderstood – it is defined in saddler terms as being that

It’s no secret that redheads have sensitive skin. But the interesting thing is that chestnuts also have the most sensitive skin in the horse world. As everyone knows, the skin is the largest organ of the body. (Somehow this never seemed to make sense intuitively, because to me an organ is an organ, and skin

I often come across clients who complain that their saddle has caused muscle atrophy. I think there is some misunderstanding of what exactly muscle atrophy is and how is it different from good muscle definition. When a muscle has been trained for more than it would have normally developed naturally, and then not used for