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I AM SO HAPPY THE SADDLE FITTER CAME OUT TODAY!!! I was thinking I had to buy a new saddle, and that mine would never fit. It was really stressful. This saddle doctor was amazing! She was from Great Britain, well her history was even more amazing - she was born in the U.S, moved to South Africa and then moved to Great Britain. She used to be a diplomat and her husband was some head of the CIA. Like can your life get any cooler? She studied horses and saddle fitting in all of the places she traveled, and it gave her an amazing view and knowledge. She most recently has worked for Lauren, on the American eventing team. She was fitting someone else's saddle, but I asked her some brief questions about my saddle. She looked at Duncan and explained how we define a high withered in the saddle fitting world as negative space. It means his ribcage is lower than the wither, and the space between the top of his rib cage and the top of the wither is just tissue, and you have to have padding to fill it. She gave me this pad called pro light and it is the best bounce pad I have ever seen. It feels so amazing, and has inserts you can take in and out. It has been extensively tested in GB and all of their event team riders used this in the Olympics! Fingers crossed Duncan likes it! Pretty awesome! She left hers with me to try out too :)