Re: [IceHorses] Creating Templates of Horse's Back

2007-02-16 Thread Judy Ryder
CREATING TEMPLATES OF YOUR HORSE'S BACK FOR SADDLE FITTING By Dr. Kerry Ridgway More from Dr. Ridgway: Saddles are for obvious reasons built symmetrically, so when placed on a horse with muscle hypertrophy (enlargement) on one side, the tree rotates diagonally into a position in order to

RE: [IceHorses] Creating Templates of Horse's Back

2007-02-16 Thread Robyn Hood
Hi Judy, This is another good article by Dr Ridgway. While most horses tend to have diagonal lowness (low shoulder and diagonally low hip) and that makes the saddle slightly easier to fit, it is a bigger challenge when the horse is laterally low - low shoulder and hip same side. In these cases