Im 20 years old and live in Wales, UK. I work in a pet supply shop and have recently achieved a HND ...
Im 20 years old and live in Wales, UK. I work in a pet supply shop and have recently achieved a HND in Animal Science. I own 2 dogs, lots of fish and a horse who I compete in shows regularly.
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After buying many cheap-ish leather saddles for my ever shape changing horse I decided to treat him to a Wintec 500 saddle. Being 31, Pegasus has quite high withers but as hes a quite chunky horse, narrow saddles get in the way of his shoulders and sit too high on his back. (A very hard thing to find is a saddle thats built for chunky horses with high withers!) Obviously there arent many horses who are this shape so no one makes saddles to fit them! Unless i scrimped and saved for about 20 years to have him a saddle made which I know i would only ruin in a matter of days, i oped for a wintec as I had ridden in my friends and found them very comfy and simple to alter. When it came it had a medium gullet in which i thought would be too wide for him as he had lost a bit of weight due to an accident a few weeks earlier. I went out and bought a narrow gullet for the saddle (£15 which I thought was quite expensive!) and it fitted him fine. Not being able to ride him for a month or so (due to his accident) he put on quite alot of weight (trust!) so back in went the medium gullet! When I did eventually ride, him the saddle seemed to slip quite alot but I think it was due to being new. So dont worry if your new Wintec does slip as they do mould very well to your horse after a few rides in it! I found the gullets a bit fiddly to change as you have to peel the "equi leather" on the front back to get at the screws but im sure with practice it gets easier! They are nice, simple saddles and I dont think i've ever cleaned it properly as a wipe down with a cloth does the trick! They are cost effective as buying a few gullets means you can alter the saddle when your horse changes shape or if your using in on a number of horses.
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Great review, only rode a horse once on a school camping trip....Darko
claremash 07.09.2006 21:50
Thanx for all the comments ppl they are very helpful, just one thing though..... Why would some one who had no idea about horses be reading a review on a saddle? lol
donovan74 07.09.2006 21:33
last time i went horse riding was in south cerney 10y ago. no horse riding in central london.
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