Hi >>>When I first started riding along time ago I just threw a saddle on and went. Who knew that they had to fit. Funny. But it is true. I think that, hopefully, most people could say "if I knew a week, month, year, 10 years ago, what I know now I would do things differently".
I have ridden for well over 50 years and it was only about 15-18 years ago that really started to look at saddle fit and then people it was a real novelty. You just put the saddle on, moved it around a bit to see if it was in the 'right' place and as long as it wasn't sitting on the horse's withers, off you went. There are still so many different opinions about saddle fit, as there always will be, but listening to the horse goes a long way IME (in my experience). Robyn Icelandic Horse Farm Robyn Hood & Phil Pretty Vernon BC Canada www.icefarm.com