Landsaw Farm

01/30/2025

01/29/2025

This image has been making the rounds.
Ensure you see the original and get the RIGHT advice. Saddle position affects performance and comfort for your horse as well as yourself. Significantly.
Your horse’s shoulder muscles must remain free enough to bulge under the front of your saddle while you ride. Squeezing/pressing anywhere along the wither area creates a miserable experience for your horse and less comfort for you.
These simple key tips will enable you to set up your saddle in the right place on your horse’s body to offer maximum positive results with the equipment you own.

WESTERN trees have long, broad parallel “bars” generally shaped to flare at the front over the horse’s shoulders. Therefore, the front edge of a Western saddle’s tree will sit farther forward than an English saddle’s forward-most tree points.

STEP 1 – FEEL
Locate the back edge of your horse’s shoulder blade (scapula) by ‘feeling’ for it with your fingertips while the horse is standing still. You should be able to feel (gently but firmly) the muscle-covered edge of this big bone as it drops off toward the rear. Curl your fingers over it and make note of the position.

STEP 2 – CHECK
Place your saddle and shimmed pad on top of your horse keeping in mind that a WESTERN SADDLE’S FRONT CONCHO should be located right on top of/in line with the area where you curled your fingertips over the scapula’s back edge.

STEP 3 – DOUBLE-CHECK that your saddle is placed correctly by noting where the cinch lies as you tighten it. You should be able to see about a hand’s breadth of open space from your horse’s elbow to the front edge of the cinch.

ICING ON THE CAKE – If you can reach back under your saddle pad when all cinched up and feel there’s room for your horse’s shoulder to bulge/swing under the front of the saddle, you can be confident your saddle setup will serve you both best. Note: of course it’s important to make sure the saddle isn’t tilted up TOO high. Feel underneath the back of it when you’re mounted as your horse walks off. Fingers should not be pinched.

Contour SaddleryNatural Horseman Saddles
Versafit Saddle Pads

01/16/2025

Maple has come a long way from being a “wild” Montana filly. No lead rope needed to go into the barn. ❤️❤️🫶

01/13/2025

Snow day fun!

01/08/2025

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01/01/2025

Maple has been a real great little filly so far. We both are patiently waiting on the round pen to dry up. 🐎

12/25/2024

Landsaw Farm is now home for…..

12/07/2024

Black Friday shopping was a little different this year! Welcome home Scarlet ❤️🤍 What can I say? Mr Landsaw sure does spoil me 🎄🐴

11/26/2024

Slick your time here is coming to an end! What a treat it’s been!! I know your family is patenting waiting on you!!!!❤️🖤🫶

11/14/2024

Excellent lesson and excellent boy today!! Looking forward to his future!

11/08/2024

This gentle giant was afraid of his own shadow, sometimes… the goats, turkeys, bunnies and kittens helped expose him to new sights, sounds and smells.

11/08/2024

This guy is the sweetest. He’s so hard not to love. He’s never out of energy or tires of wanting to show you where his stall is.

11/08/2024

They don’t get any better than this. Watching Jack with her was such a great experience. The hardest part about her training was letting her go home.

11/03/2024

They’re hard at it again today!

10/24/2024

There is nothing better than to see these beauties go to an amazing home!!

07/24/2024

When Ally & I take a ride on the trail each day, I know soon the day will come when I have to hook that trailer up:( Took a break for a few days and today we went down onto the trail. And never missed a beat. What a great time this has been for the both of us! What an adventure! 🤠 Shannon Landsaw

05/19/2024

Goats 👀 for a 🏡 Kiko, kiko/pygmy, Alpine, alpine/kiko cross. Some 💙👀 💙