Dhorse has had just over a year living the life of riley in a beautiful field. He’d been turned away after a nightmare year of multiple medical problems (field accident, asthma, hock arthritis precipitated by box rest for the accident and a niggling chronic soft tissue injury).
He’s now completely healthy and sound, he’s moving beautifully and our vet is very happy for us to crack on with him and bring him back into work.
I’ve been doing lots of in hand work with him - long lining, poles, in hand walks - and he’s started to get some muscle back and lose his couch potato flab. We now need to start him back under saddle but … he doesn’t currently have one!
When he was competing he had lovely (and expensive 😬) dressage and jump saddles but they’re being used by dd’s new horse and he really doesn’t need something like that now as he’ll just be hacking with the occasional bit of schooling. I don’t want to spend a fortune as he’s going to change shape more as he gets back into more work.
Any suggestions as to what might work? He’s a chunky ISH and getting an appointment with a decent saddler round here is problematic ..
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Saddle options for bringing back into work?
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Pleasedontdothat · 24/04/2022 07:38
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