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Location: Seward, Nebraska | Need some opinions on saddles for horses with short backs, and forward heart girth. I'm leaning to a round skirt circle y with 3 way rigging, or a Martin, I have a tex tan all around roper but It's rigging is to far back an does not fit my mare, so tex tan is out since from what I can tell all their rigging is 7/8. With all the saddle brands out their need some help weeding out the bad and focusing on the good ones.
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| Have you looked at the Double J Pozzi Speedster? I know they're shorter. Or at a Double J Intimidator? |
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| Ed wright or Shiloh saddles worked well with my short backed mare |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Burn n' Turn - 2014-10-05 12:28 PM Have you looked at the Double J Pozzi Speedster? I know they're shorter. Or at a Double J Intimidator?
These are the ones that I was going to suggest, their skirts are shorter  |
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| Southtxponygirl - 2014-10-05 10:52 AM
Burn n' Turn - 2014-10-05 12:28 PM Have you looked at the Double J Pozzi Speedster? I know they're shorter. Or at a Double J Intimidator?
These are the ones that I was going to suggest, their skirts are shorter
That's why I suggested them, they have shorter skirts. And they also have the Double J rigging in them, so you can adjust it to fit almost any horse! |
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Location: Oklahoma | I would beware of a Crown C. The rigging is nice, but I've been working with mine on a short backed horse (he's also shorter, not just short backed) and it seems like the saddle takes up his entire back.... And not to mention they sit further back anyway.
Once he gets some weight off I definetly plan on having him fitted for something like a Pozzi pro. I'm not sure just how much shorter they are, but it looked like a world of difference when I put one on my long backed horse! |
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Location: Seward, Nebraska | I have looked at double j but it was because they were pretty but now I'll really look! Thank you I've never heard of Shiloh brand I'll check them out |
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Location: Seward, Nebraska | Has anyone tried the just be natural tree free barrel saddle from circle y? |
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Location: Opelousas, LA | Here is an older Double J Scamper that is super short skirted.
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| Barnmom - 2014-10-06 10:34 AM
Here is an older Double J Scamper that is super short skirted.
They still make these, but now they are called The Intidmidator. Also just saw on their website that they are making a Flex Tree now. They look short as well. |
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Location: Seward, Nebraska | Double j is defiantly on my list, I'm also looking at a couple circle y's and still googling some smaller high quality brands thank you all |
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Location: Fort Worth / Springtown | goldy8988 - 2014-10-06 12:06 PM Has anyone tried the just be natural tree free barrel saddle from circle y? I have and after 14 years of switching saddles on this horse, I'm done --- I've kept him running in the JBN longer than any other saddle - tried over 50.
I even thought about an Arabian saddle at one time, but with his high wither decided it wouldn't work anyway.
I've put many bare trees on his back and none of them fit correctly - and they all extended too far back. There are two widths of JBN so if one doesn't work, you might try the other size. I had to "alter" the front to not interfere with his high wither, though.
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Location: Seward, Nebraska | I took a tracing of her withers to the tack store an it fit a 8.5" gullet crown c which was the shortest skirt in the store |
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Location: Seward, Nebraska | Won't let me post pics off my phone but does anyone know how the double j tree/gullet width an seat size differs from the Martin, I know the martin seats bigger cuz I haven't fit a 14.5 inch saddle seat since middle school. |
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Location: Seward, Nebraska | Bump finally got pics
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Location: Lost in the corn of Iowa. | What about a Charmayne James record breaker? That has a tucked up skirt on it and might work. |
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Location: NC | My Tod Slone has a short skirt. it fit in a 24" long box to ship. it also is the B3 tree and they fit wide straighter backed horses like yours looks like. you can see how much pad is infront of and behind. This is my only one I have had so not sure if they all have shorted skirts or just this one....
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Location: Seward, Nebraska | I've thaught about the record breaker but they don't have it on their website any more, I took wither tracings to a tack store an the cactus nbha fit for gullet but skirt was to long. We have a expo next weekend so I plan on trying every saddle their to see if I can find one that works for us both, I've been reading specs on every saddle to compare but it's so hard to tell if they will work online an the more I obsess over saddle fit the more confused an discouraged I'm getting! Why is saddle shopping such a pain? |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | goldy8988 - 2014-11-07 9:53 AM I've thaught about the record breaker but they don't have it on their website any more, I took wither tracings to a tack store an the cactus nbha fit for gullet but skirt was to long. We have a expo next weekend so I plan on trying every saddle their to see if I can find one that works for us both, I've been reading specs on every saddle to compare but it's so hard to tell if they will work online an the more I obsess over saddle fit the more confused an discouraged I'm getting! Why is saddle shopping such a pain?
I get all my saddles from Teskey's. They can ship you a record breaker to try for ten days and you can send it back if you don't like it. THey can literally get you any saddle for a little less off retail. Jeff there has always been good to me about those things. Really nice people with really great connections.  |
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Location: Seward, Nebraska | I get the same treatment at fort western they just don't have tons to try but I'm hoping the expo will have a good selection to give me an idea of what I want. To order thru the fort. |
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