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Location: Kansas | i saw a post on Facebook of someone saying you want a dry spine after riding? I've never heard this before......any truth to this? |
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| Yep, happened to my horse, but he has high withers and a low back. I think the saddle may have been bridging. Anyway, now that we have a correctly fitting saddle and changed some other things so that he has a good top line again, this hasn't happened anymore. |
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Location: North Dakota | I was always taught dry spine=saddle not sitting on spine=good. You obviously want nice even sweat marks on either side of the spine, but the actual spine should be dry. |
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| I would run my finger down his spine and he was ouchy plus I had scrape marks on the leather part of the pad that ran down the spine of the saddle pad. So in my case it was not a good sign.  |
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Red Bull Agressive
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Location: North Dakota | GLP - 2015-09-04 8:41 AM
I would run my finger down his spine and he was ouchy plus I had scrape marks on the leather part of the pad that ran down the spine of the saddle pad. So in my case it was not a good sign.
Well bridging is entirely different than the acual spine being dry. Bridging will cause dry patches on either side of the spine, but not directly on it. But even so, a dry spine does not automatically mean your saddle fits, it just means that the saddle is not resting on top of the spineous processes which is important, but not the only factor in fitting the saddle. It needs to fit everywhere else too. |
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | cavyrunsbarrels - 2015-09-04 10:10 AM GLP - 2015-09-04 8:41 AM I would run my finger down his spine and he was ouchy plus I had scrape marks on the leather part of the pad that ran down the spine of the saddle pad. So in my case it was not a good sign. Well bridging is entirely different than the acual spine being dry. Bridging will cause dry patches on either side of the spine, but not directly on it. But even so, a dry spine does not automatically mean your saddle fits, it just means that the saddle is not resting on top of the spineous processes which is important, but not the only factor in fitting the saddle. It needs to fit everywhere else too.
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| I don't know what was causing it, but the spine was dry and the rest of his back was sweaty and his spine was very ouchy and according to Meleeta my saddle definitely didn't fit my horse. My choice of words are not always very good when I explain things, lol. |
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Location: Kansas | cavyrunsbarrels - 2015-09-04 9:10 AM GLP - 2015-09-04 8:41 AM I would run my finger down his spine and he was ouchy plus I had scrape marks on the leather part of the pad that ran down the spine of the saddle pad. So in my case it was not a good sign. Well bridging is entirely different than the acual spine being dry. Bridging will cause dry patches on either side of the spine, but not directly on it. But even so, a dry spine does not automatically mean your saddle fits, it just means that the saddle is not resting on top of the spineous processes which is important, but not the only factor in fitting the saddle. It needs to fit everywhere else too.
So I'm assuming it's okay to have a dry spine? I've been using a sensoryflex pad on my gelding and shimming the front. He has an even sweat pattern except for the spine. |
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