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A Horse and a Poorly Fitted Saddle

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Juliegoodnightontheroad

Thursday, August 28, 2008

This week on Horse Master is one of my favorite episodes that we have filmed so far. It?s about an Arab trail/endurance horse that we thought had some training issues. In fact, we thought the episode would be about bucking at the canter?and that he did. But it became clear right away as I watched the horse try to canter around the arena that we were dealing with a physical issue. In fact, a very poorly fitted saddle.

The horse was rushing at all gaits, crow hopping and breaking gait at the canter and throwing his head high and travelling in a very inverted frame. She had owned the horse and ridden him in this saddle with these problems for four years. For that reason, I didn?t expect an immediate cure on this horse. I figured even if we got him in a comfortable saddle, we would see some improvement but his memories and habitual behavior would persist.

I put my Circle Y Flex2 Reiner on him...

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