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Thursday, October 7, 2010

PICKING THE PROPER SADDLE FOR YOUR HORSE

Ten Tips for a seat assembly

1. Clearance wither The throat of a saddle must clear the cross, but not so narrow as to pinch the horses back.

The ideal distance should be 2-3 fingers between the saddle pommel (throat) and the cross horses. Anything less is risky and if there is no office of the chair should not be used.

2.To check you can look down the throat to see the light at the other end, put the saddle on the horse, cinched, but sweatshirts or pads and then see if you have this office.

3. Gullet width - The width of the throat (when viewed from underneath the saddle), should be about three inches wide all the way up the handle of the tile.

4. Balance Saddle - The seat has to sit right, ie not falling over the front or back. To check this, once you have put the saddle on the horse, see if when the rider sits in the chair is sitting flat.

The balance of the chair must be reviewed again by one person on earth with the rider on the horse and the horse standing on level ground.

5. Saddle seat position - seat of the chair should be positioned so that the rider is placed over the horse's center of balance.

The location of the horse's center of balance depends on a combination of speed and collection of the horses. If the horse is standing or walking the center of gravity is just behind the heart girth and below the cross.

If the horse at a trot or gallop, the center of balance moves forward and if at a gallop or jump the center of balance moves further forward. If the horse is very collected the center of balance will be back, regardless of the way, that if the horse is in a broader framework.

6. The length of the chair - A chair should not go beyond the 18th thoracic vertebra, which binds to the horses of the last rib, this is beyond the lumbar spine, which is the weakest part of the horses back . If you feel the ribs on your horse and the work of your hand back until you can feel the last rib, then run your fingers up the rib to get to the spine - which is the point at which the chair should not go further.

7. "These panels should be smooth and even contact along the horses spine to distribute the rider's weight evenly. An irregular shape increases the pressure points and pain.

With saddles used when fitting seat, make sure that the panels are still in good condition and is not necessary to re-flocking etc.

8. The movement of a chair - When driving, the seat should not move backward or forward or rock up and down. To help see if this is happening in the installation of seat, it helps if you have someone standing on the floor, watching to see if you move the seat as walk, trot and gallop with them.

9. The size of the tree - the tree size, which determines the width of the chair and the height of the throat is one of the most important factors when assembling chairs.

A tree that is too narrow, it's a problem that a too wide, and that will push the saddle points of the tree on the horse again, and eventually lead to muscle wasting / atrophy, in the long run will lead to emptying of the horse again on both sides of the backbone of the entire shoulder area.

It can be easily tested by observing the pattern of sweat from the horses back after work. The pattern of sweat even have to sweat over the panels, with the exception of points of points of trees, which will round dry spots in the area of sweat.

10. The placement of a chair - When fitting a saddle chair should be placed two to four fingers behind the blade end of the horse.

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