01/26/2020
If I had the time and inclination, this would be a beautifully presented, professionally photographed high-tech presentation.
But it’s not. It’s some badly-drawn notes on the back of an old invoice pad, scribbled between dressage rides, from the Tiny House, which is a 6ft square slice of heaven on a horse farm in Florida. Because this is where I am when I have 5 minutes to breathe and take stock.
I talked to a good friend and client this week about a saddle she’d bought, and quite likes, but she thought it was ‘too narrow’, and in the course of chatting about it with pictures, we discovered that a lot of us probably aren’t really sure what ‘narrow’, ‘wide’ etc actually mean in a saddle.
Don’t feel like this should be obvious. It’s as obvious as algebra or geometry... obvious, once you know, but absolutely unfathomable otherwise!
So here we go. Hold onto your hats and stick with me, we’re going to slice up some ponies. Like bread....
Here’s a cross-section of a wide horse and a narrow horse:
