When I started writing this blog, I was asked to share some true anecdotal experiences in the field. I have managed to do this a couple of times, but I find it extremely difficult without this becoming a blatant testimonial for how great a difference a well-fitting saddle makes (ours in this instance again). So please forgive me if that’s what you read out of this; it is not my intent. This is actually the story one of our regional managers, Connie Frantzke, experienced, so I will tell it by paraphrasing her words to give you the sequence of events.
I just wish I could share the feelings etc. that you get when you see a messed-up horse change before your eyes.
This client contacted Schleese about six weeks ago insisting we send her a saddle. We said OK, but that we needed the information from our long distance fit kit. She sent in the information from another saddle fitter, listing the horse’s Sprenger measurement at 3.0 (it was actually a 7.0, which is a huge difference!)
Connie told her I would be in the area in a couple of weeks – but then she didn’t register and didn’t show up. Two weeks after my clinic, she started again with the “just send me a saddle” requests.
She opted to pay the trainer fee for two days to our organizer in the area, paid to have the horse trailered, paid for a stall, but couldn’t come herself – so everything was resolved by email and phone.
End result – excellent. Helping horses like Tuscany is what feeds our souls. She is a very interesting, sensitive and stoic Redhead! The advice to her was that since the mare had been sore and off work for a while, and now she would be using new muscles, to take it easy and ride her long and low for a few weeks. Read the full article here.
~ Jochen Schleese CMS, CSFT, CSE, courtesy of Saddlefit 4 Life
