>>> Warning, this picture also contains a dropped noseband. (and a fairly unattractive picture of myself).
You look fine, and at least you don't have tension in the reins as you're standing there! That's one of my pet peeves with dropped nosebands - when the horses don't get much chance to relax and breath. The horse is beautiful! (I love bay.) >>>> The tree doesn't start until a few inches back so although the saddle overlaps his shoulder it doesn't interfere. Obviously, I can't tell if the saddle fits from one picture, but one thing I've noticed with western saddles that I'd like to point out to others. Many times we worry about where the back edge of the skirt of a western saddle ends, but we really should look at what part of the horse's back that the rider's weight is on. The angle makes it hard to say, but it doesn't look like your weight is too far back to me...so if the skirt isn't too stiff and doesn't rub, and your weight isn't on the cantle, I could see that this saddle might work. On the other hand, I had a round-skirted cordura saddle for a while. It was shorter than this saddle, but the darned skirt sort of cupped down and rubbed even though the length looked ok. One question for you - does the girth get too close to his elbows? Again, I can't tell, just curious. I'm not an expert on western saddles BY ANY MEANS, but I've been using a packer cinch when I use my Bob Marshall Endurance saddle. It didn't come with rear billets, so I simply bought a couple of spare off-billets, added them to the rear and that works well with the packer cinch. By anchoring the saddle front and rear, it seems to help keep the cinch out of his elbows. An extra bonus with my BMSS is that I don't have to cinch up quite as tightly with the packer cinch, I guess since it's anchored front and rear. Yours may be fine, but seeing the picture just made me think of this. He's a really pretty horse and he looks handsome in his western saddle. Karen Thomas, NC -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.441 / Virus Database: 268.17.39/685 - Release Date: 2/13/2007 10:01 PM "The greatest enemy of the truth very often is not the lie- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic." "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer [] The video every Icelandic Horse owner should have: http://IceHorses.net/video.html [] Lee Ziegler http://leeziegler.com [] Liz Graves http://lizgraves.com [] Lee's Book Easy Gaited Horses http://tinyurl.com/7vyjo [] IceHorses Map http://www.frappr.com/IceHorses [] IceHorses ToolBar http://iceryder.ourtoolbar.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IceHorses/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IceHorses/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
