I have a saddle such as the one described, and I bought it in Arizona for my husband. That was before they moved to Wyoming. He is such a pest to salespeople, that the Sears appliance guy kicked him out and told him to go buy a commercial stove. Ha ha. So we went to Arizona on business, and he pestered the saddler for several hours, and she had that saddle measured to fit his butt, and he is happy. But he rides a few hours a year. He pestered me so much about my "bad saddles", that I forked out my Visa card and bought him the $2,300 wonder as a gift. Then I thought I would use it on the trail to get some money's worth out of it. Well, I don't really like it for my purposes. I find that when I ride more than 3 hours (that is the magic number for finding out if tack works, I think) I get really sore seat bones, and killer knees. I cant move the stirrups forward when I am climbing really steep stuff, and find out that the horse kicks my foot, like my legs are in the
way of the horse. I am not complaining that I want to get rid of the saddle, cause it's my husband's saddle and he likes it for his pleasure rides. It fit my mare okay, she has kind of a long back. It's pretty balanced on the flats. But I went back to old faithful, "El Stubben", which I am very happy on, and cost me way way less. Maybe it's because I have a lot of formal training in English riding . (Although I have formal training in Western riding too,so that can't be it) Anyway, I am happier with the English saddle, and would buy another one of those, even though it wasn't custom made and cost almost a third. I have a friend who lives close by to the place they made those in Arizona, and she is kicking herself for not getting one when it was made by the woman in Arizona. I don't even know if that woman is still making saddles, but she was pretty darn talented, so maybe my saddle is better, because it is one of the older models.
Beth
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