New and/or unusual saddles strive to combine comfort and performance for horse and rider.
by Kim F. Miller
Hunter/jumper trainer Mark Farndale has a frontlines perspective on
the evolution of saddle design. “When I started, everybody had one
saddle and we rode every horse in the same saddle,” says the
60-year-old. “Over the years, it became evident that, ‘Hey, the horse’s
back mattered!’ And there was the recognition that Thoroughbreds and
Warmbloods had such different shapes. Some of the things we took for
naughty horses back then were just horses in pain.”
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