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| So, I bought my mare a year ago and finally had her fitted to a tree a few months ago after months of shopping around and trying different saddles. Long story short, the saddle the previous owner rode her in didn't fit her... AT ALL. She will not sweat where the old saddle was pinching on her. And I don't just mean when I ride. It was quite hot the other day and she was sweating, except for in those spots where the previous saddle didn't fit. So I'm curious, is this permanent damage? Or will it eventually heal? She doesn't seem to be in any discomfort at all when we ride her now after finding a saddle for her and having her adjusted multiple times |
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 Miss Laundry Misshap
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| Are you 100% sure your saddle really, truly does fit??? Have you rode the mare bareback or anything with hard work (round pen type stuff) to make her sweat to see if she does indeed sweat there? |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | She may have some nerve damage under the skin or she may have trouble getting circulation there.
Have you tried massage on the area to really get some blood flowing through there?
Kudos to giving this horse a better fitting saddle. Glad you found her.  |
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 The One
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Location: South Georgia | My mare had white spots (small) in an area on one side when I bought her and she does not sweat in that area at all, even in the pasture on 110 heat index days when the rest of her body will be wet. My saddle fits well and I have even sweat pattern, but I have to overlook that area from the old spot, becuase like I said, she just doesnt sweat there. Even when she's completely dry, her hair in that area even looks different. In the end of summer like this, the rest of her topline is bleached, and that one little quarter sized spot around the old saddle sore remains soft and darker.
I thought I was alone.
Edited by horsegirl 2017-09-08 1:30 PM
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| If your saddle fits I would not worry about the lack of sweating. |
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Location: North Dakota | We have a cutting reject mare at my barn who does the same thing. The saddle she was rode until she was 6 when she came to our barn did not fit. It can be in the 90s and she will be sweating everywhere but two round spots where she has white spots. She is now 15 and hasn't been rode a whole lot in the past 4-5 years so it is not due to a poor fitting saddle still. Those areas are damaged and will probably never be normal again. |
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Can an ill fitting saddle cause permanent damage?