I Try Out My “Old Type” Wellep Lever Cheek Snaffle
Lat Sunday was a good day. The weather was nice, Shannon's ring was dry, my grandson was visiting, and I got to try out my new bit on Cider! This bit, the “old” type Wellep Lever Cheek Snaffle has some differences from the “new” type Wellep Lever Cheek Snaffle that I had used a little bit several years ago. The cable that goes through the…
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I am Riding Mia Again!
When I stopped riding Mia three months ago, she was not pleased with the way that my new saddle and pad combination was working on her back. She “muttered” under her breath that she was too old to put up with such shenanigans, that the shifting saddle was just TOO IRRITATING, and that she would appreciate me not riding her until I figured out how to keep the saddle stable. So I worked on figuring out how to stabilize the saddle on Bingo and Cider, and when I…
ContinueAdded by Jackie Cochran on December 24, 2016 at 11:52am — No Comments
Maybe I Finally Got the Shims Right with Bingo
This week I finally came to the realization that, at least on horses with the croup high &/or sway back conformation, the key to getting my new Pegasus Butterfly saddle working correctly, is to shim my pad correctly. I also established that when I made my stirrup leathers uneven (to reflect that my right leg is shorter than my left leg), my seat stays centered in the saddle without much extra work on my part.
Last Sunday I…
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Is My Right Leg Shorter Than My Left Leg?
Last Sunday, for my ride on Cider using my new Pegasus Butterfly saddle, I added both the ¼” and 3/16” bridging shims to my Contender II BOT/ThinLine pad. This made the pad thicker, which meant Shannon had trouble getting Cider’s string girth to the bottom hole of the billet straps. If we had used any girth but a mohair string girth we would have been in real trouble, but since the string girth has some stretch to it Shannon finally got…
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We Stabilized My Pegasus Butterfly Saddle on Cider’s Back
Last Sunday I got to try my new Pegasus Butterfly saddle on Cider again. I found my only string girth, washed it, and I prayed it would fit Cider. When I got to Shannon’s farm we both put the Pegasus pad on Cider’s back, I explained how we wanted the top part of the pad (the part right under the panels of the saddle) to be sort of flat, and we ended up putting all four shims in the second and third pockets on…
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My New Pegasus Butterfly Saddle Gets Baptized in the Rain
I did not get to ride Cider last Sunday so I did not get to see if putting the shims in the Pegasus pad was the answer to our problems during our last ride.
On Wednesday morning, as we drove out to Debbie’s stable, it started drizzling with some bigger drops of rain. I decided that hey, I’m tough, I ride hunt seat, and foxhunters often ride in the rain. Luckily for me, Debbie agrees that a light rain is really no…
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Bingo Was Not Behaving
Last Sunday, while I was riding Cider at Shannon’s farm, I decided not to use my upper thighs to influence Cider’s spine. Instead I concentrated my attention on keeping my heels down, thus making my seat more secure.
Well, Cider was quite good. My work with my upper thighs the last few weeks certainly pain off! At no time during my ride did Cider scrunch herself up into a pretzel, and while we were not quite as straight she cheerfully accepted contact…
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Further Adventures with My New Saddle
This week I rode three horses using my new saddle. Doing so made me appreciate my Corrector saddle pad even more than before! While my new Crosby looked like it fit the horses’ backs, withers and shoulders much better than my other English saddles, the two horses I used it on without the Corrector shortened their strides at the walk, did not move their backs as much, did “stabbing” trots, and otherwise indicated some…
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