‘New’ saddle

Maintaining the horses feet takes time, and involves a lot of reading and learning. Very happy with how much we have learnt!

Here we are trying out the ‘pre-loved’ western saddle we recently got - it needs a bigger saddle pad than we have, but apart from that was great!

Bit fuzzy! This is up through our woods above the house.

At the top of the land

The new saddle took a bit of working out what some bits are for, and even how to attach it as the tack is different to the english saddles we are used to.

I discovered this is for holding the end of the cinch when you are not using the saddle or if the cinch is longer than needed depending how you tied it. 

You can see similar here on the other side to hold the other side of the cinch when not in use.

The cinch is the girth on an English saddle ;) confusing!

You can see it is well work, but lovely leatherwork.