Who looks a smart boy?This is William our well behaved Welsh Cob trying his new saddle for size. Its a western saddle I bought for Tracey's birthday from a very nice lady on ebay with a strange name, fluffyfelix, probably not her real name.
Anyway the nice DHL man delivered it today, funnily enough his name was Steve, and tonight when we got back from work we tried it out for size. Now William is a very placid lad, we have dressed him up in his bit and bridle and a roller, a large body belt type thing, and he has taken this all in his stride. Having us faff around with a saddle was a new one for him, and us as it is a bit different to the English general purpose seat but he was very patient with us and let us push and pull him around as we tested the fit.
He wore it well and its now in the tack room awaiting a good going over with oil to soften it a bit. We cant actually ride him yet, he has a bit more growing to do and it will be around this time next year before we can take him out for a hack.
Meantime he will be trained to do some work on the smallholding, log work, that type of thing and we will have to be very patient while we wait to ride him on the common.
We really cant wait.
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