>>>>there is not one traditional Western > saddle with skirts, horn and fenders. Our friends with the Icelandic > therapy horse do use Western tack on all three of their horses, but that's > the only Western tack I can think of at the barn where I board. > > The majority of the horses are ridden in what is usually referred to as > English tack: dressage saddles, all purpose saddles, one saddle seat > rider, > some hunter jumper types. The endurance horses are ridden in a saddle I > think if as a hybred - no horn, usually English type stirrup leathers, no > fenders, and girth with billets. Most are in snaffle bits, kimberwicks > or > bitless.
But the tack doesn't make the discipline... if you know what I mean. Judy http://icehorses.net http://clickryder.com
