Welcome to the 9-Points of Saddle Fit Masterclass
As an equine professional, you know how frustrating it is when horses struggle with recurring issues:
- Soreness, tension, back pain
- Behavioural issues during grooming, tacking up, mounting or riding
- Resistance under saddle, poor performance
- Recurring body lameness
You treat the symptoms, give the rider exercises and recommendations to manage them long-term and you make some progress, but in the long term, something still feels off.
It’s frustrating, isn’t it? You’ve done the work and followed best practices, but the same problems keep appearing.
Poor saddle fit is one of the most common causes of recurring physical and behavioural symptoms in ridden horses. Horses are incredibly resilient, capable of compensating for a long time, but if the saddle is the problem, no amount of bodywork or training is going to alleviate the symptoms long term.
Perhaps you already know that the saddle is contributing to the symptoms but you’re lacking the knowledge and training to identify specifically where the problem areas are. So what’s the next step? Do you send the client to a saddle fitter? Hope for the best? Wait and see?
Here’s what many professionals don’t realize, saddle fit evaluation is within your reach.
By learning the right tools and techniques, you can quickly assess key areas of fit, flag potential problems, and provide guidance that improves comfort, performance, and overall wellbeing for your horses.
That’s why we created the 9 Points of Saddle Fit.
This guide gives you a structured, practical approach to assess saddle fit statically. You’ll learn to check balance, wither clearance, saddle length, spinal clearance, billet alignment, panel contact, and more.
While it doesn’t yet introduce dynamic saddle fit evaluation or provide you with a full certification in saddle fitting, it’s an incredibly valuable starting point, one that equips you to identify problem areas right away and take confident action in your practice.
Throughout this course, you’ll discover how each point affects the horse’s comfort, movement, and performance, to enable you to add an additional skill to your professional toolkit and offer proactive care to your clients as soon as you complete this course.
So welcome. you’re about to add a skill to your toolkit that will improve the lives of the horses you work with, deepen trust with your clients, and elevate your impact as a professional. The 9 Points of Saddle Fit is a pathway to healthier, happier, better-performing horses.
Let’s get started!