[AnAmericanMother]

Yep, English saddles are made with the narrow-backed, high-withered Thoroughbred type in mind. When you get a nice muscled-up QH with shoulders like a fullback, sometimes that saddle looks like a pimple on a piecrust. . . .

You can hardly see my mare when she's facing you, she's so narrow.

[FrogInABlender]

...looks like a pimple on a piecrust...

ROTFLOL!!! Now that's a colorful analogy if I've ever heard one! LOL!

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

I don't know if you've been following the thread, but he's not soreing up at his withers with the English saddle, he is getting sore where the back of the saddle rests on his back. Did you see this picture I posted the other day:

I would straighten the saddle, get it centered, and then in just a few steps it was cocked like this at the back but when I looked down at the front it looked straight. I asked the girl with me if it looked like I leaned she said no and I concentrated on making sure I wasn't bearing down on that side, but after a few steps the back would slide over like this.

The man at the saddle shop I went to yesterday, is purely western, didn't even want to see him with the English on. I told hiim about what it was doing and he said, he'd guess it was still too narrow, which was causing it to be pulled crooked. That's what he said. But it is at the back where Harely is getting sore in the English.

Becky