Hi Judy, This is another good article by Dr Ridgway. While most horses tend to have diagonal lowness (low shoulder and diagonally low hip) and that makes the saddle slightly easier to fit, it is a bigger challenge when the horse is laterally low - low shoulder and hip same side. In these cases the rider will constantly feel the saddle going over to one side. That is made even worse if the riders collapsed side is the same as the horse's low side. You can tell which side collapsed (or is contracted through the ribs) because that on that side the rider may have a tendency to lose her stirrup or have it feel a different length than the other side.
Robyn Icelandic Horse Farm Robyn Hood & Phil Pretty Vernon BC Canada www.icefarm.com
