Firstly a fellow livery also had another saddler out and was being advised about the balance of her saddle. Her saddler demonstrated how her horse had been bracing himself and built up muscles in his lower neck and had dropped his back by constantly hollowing. Both boys were tied up together and I looked across at Charlie and thought 'ooh Charlie's back looks so much flatter than it used to'.
As this thought entered my head my friend said 'look how nice and flat Charlie's back is'.
Next my saddler turned up and I discussed the fact that we had lost weight and the saddle was tipping forward. 'You know why that is' he says. 'Charlie now has withers'. Whoop whoop and more Zipidee Dooh Dah. Then he says with our rate of shape change I may need checking every three months. Pah a saddler with pretensions of my paying for a Ferrari in quarterly instalments.
It was interesting to see that when he got his bendy template out and put it across the withers what we have built between us is a nice wither shaped V. Last year the same bendy template came out almost dead flat.
Unfortunately as he is so careful with our saddle he wouldn't top up the flocking in situ and has taken it away to make it perfect. So I am grounded for a few days. I don't really want to give him time off so I may well be doing some major walking.
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