Saddle Fit?
I bought a new saddle for my horse a couple of months ago because the one I had was too narrow and pinching his withers. The new saddle was slightly too wide and I purhcased a pad (this is the pad: http://www.doversaddlery.com/comfort-pad-with-raised-front/p/X1-19164/cn/108/) to fix this issue. When I tack up with this pad (I just use a square pad under it) it looks like a great fit – it gives him wither clearance, follows his shoulder angle nicely, sits level, everything just looks great. I get off and he has dry spots behind his shoulder blade but isn’t sore. Just the other day when I un-tacked he had NO dry spots and wasn’t sore at all. Today it was back to how it used to be, he had dry spots, but he was also sore (normally he isn’t). I don’t get why everything was great just yesterday and today he didn’t just have dry spots, but was sore. I didn’t do anything differently when tacking up or under saddle.
Any ideas on why this is happening?
Is he gaining/losing weight? Is he a young horse? Maybie he could be changing shape?
Or else it mightn’t have anything to do with saddle. Is it very wet/dry weather? Rain could cause rain rot or the sun could burn him? Is he wearing a rug that could cause it?
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