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[FlightsofFancy]

lupinfarm....Mylie is gorgeous!!! Congrats on the new saddle...I am still looking for mine. Take pictures when you get yours on her.

 

[Chickerdoodle13]

I bought the same saddle and it is very comfortable. It should fit mylie just fine with her wider back. It fits my large, QH mare just fine, but does not fit my high withered, thinner backed gelding. Sometimes I feel like we own a frickin' tack store because we have so many saddles! LOL

Very easy to clean too!

 

[lupinfarm]

LOL I know right. I'm going to the horse/tack auction March 13th. This one in particular always has reasonable prices and often takes tack shop closeouts and ranch closeouts. One year I remember a whole shipment of old, immaculately kept, Circle Y's came in from our west.

I may just pick up another saddle there, I'm in love with Billy Cooks... they're just.. ugh.. beautiful. So I might find something there to bring home as well. I'm stockpiling because we're looking at getting mum a horse, but now shes seen Curlies at a ladies place near us and she wants to buy a little weanling colt.

 

[dianneS]

I have a wintec AP english saddle and I love it. The adjustable gullet system is great too, although the westerns aren't adjustable. I'm considering getting a wintec western some day, but right now I'm considering a wintec dressage saddle! They really are nice and easy to clean, although I miss the smell of leather! I still have real leather stirrup leathers though and my bridle too, so they smell nice!

 

[lupinfarm]

I love the Wintec A/P's, When I took lessons I boarded at a barn that used the Wintec A/P's when they first started getting big for all their schoolies. They still have the same saddles!

I will be getting an A/P for Mylie too since my coach is actually a dressage coach, but I wanted to get our Western now as she will be ridden primarily western over the winter and having that saddle is better for my free-lease stuff, as she'll need to be ridden this winter when I'm at uni.

 

[lupinfarm]

I picked up my new saddle yesterday!

Don't mind the english saddle pad and the halter hanging from it, I have like no storage at all until we do the tack room and build the tack lockers lol.

There is a HUGE difference between the 16" and the 17" seriously, the 17" is nice and roomy.

 

[dianneS]

Wow! Its really nice. I really like the wintec black. That's another reason I went with a wintec, black seems to be the color of choice and my mare is bay and she looks really good in black tack!

 

[lupinfarm]

I know! I love black tack, since Mylie is a Palomino she looks great in black. I like dark oil western equipment though, so I ended up with the chocolate (I have a chocolate headstall as well.. with pink rope reins!!)

I'm definitely getting my Wintec A/P in black though, and my english bridle will be black. The pad under the saddle is my english pad for her, and im trying to find a western pad in the same colours.

 

[Chickerdoodle13]

That saddle looks exactly the same as mine! I got the 17" seat as well. I can't believe I used to ride in a 14.5" barrel saddle! I have to say that that saddle was so comfy though...Never felt like I was going to fall out! I'm not a small person either, but I loved my 14.5"! LOL