[Endurance.Net: Consider this...] Endurance Saddles of the future being developed in the Foothills

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TryonDailyBulletin.com - Full Article

By Catherine Hunter

Published 8:00 am Wednesday, July 25, 2018

New riding technology being researched in Tryon

TRYON — Ron Friedson, of Pegasus Saddles, was in town this week talking about Pegasus’ new Featherweight saddle designed for endurance riders.

Friedson has been working with Mike Schatzberg, owner of Cherokee Hill Farm in Tryon, to develop the ideal lightweight saddle for endurance riders.

“The Pegasus Saddles are made with a Unicorn Duel Action spring hinge embedded on either side in the front of the saddletree,” Friedson said. “This lets the saddle automatically open and close to fit wide or narrow backed horses, or even a horse that is uneven.”

Pegasus saddles are designed and built by a former Kieffer saddle maker. Friedson himself is a world-renowned saddle designer, and has studied with both German and English saddle makers...

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https://www.tryondailybulletin.com/2018/07/25/saddles-of-the-future-being-developed-in-the-foothills/

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[Karen Sullivan]

I am not sure this is "new riding technology", as other brands of
endurance saddles in previous decades have used the "hinged bar"
technology, from Skyhorse to the current Stonewalls. i am not sure
how these designs accommodate the problem with "rock" in saddle trees
that you will have fitting very flat backed horses to very dippy
backed horses. and breakaway stirrup leathers or stirrups? Bad
idea.. I might be on a very dicey situation on a squirelly horse on a
narrow trail with a dropoff and the LAST thing I would want is any
kind of stirrup leather or stirrup release. I will adress that issue
by using CAGED stirrups and running shoes loosely tied so I can't get
hung up in anything
Karen

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[Barbara Bates Peck]

After fitting saddles  for 25 years + . The anatomy of the horse AND rider tell me what the best direction a person should go in and what saddle they should be looking for. No manufacturer, no one brand, Treed, Flex, Panel, Treeless or English  is going to meet the needs of every horse and rider. No human's body is perfectly balanced, and no horse is perfectly symmetrical. And I agree with Karen Sullivan regarding rock.  I use the Dennis Lane Cards to measure that, and have found that lots of gaited horses are mostly 3's ( pretty straight where the rib cage meets the spine - which is where rock is measured) and there's a percentage of every breed like that .... most horses are around a 6 (and many off the rack saddles are 6) .. but then there's 9's and 12's ( I have a 12). -  Even if you love a saddle right off the bat, and the horse does too - it takes some miles to really know.  Time always tells whether something new stands the test of time, because sometimes it takes time for problems to show up.

[greymare56]

Another point is that while many saddles can be fit very accurately to a horse that is standing still they won't always accommodate the shape of a horse that is moving, changing gaits, turning, we're going up or down steep slopes

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