Cardboard template of your horse's back

The ideal way to make a saddle that is well suited to your horse is to provide a cardboard template for your horse's back.

You can make a metal template yourself with flexible metal wires (total length about 50cm, with a wire every 5cm), or with a single metal wire, which you will move on the horse's back every 5cm, drawing chalk marks on the back of your horse.

Or you can find ready-made metal template in the trade.

Place the template on the back of your horse by placing the first lateral rods 5cm behind the point of the scapula.

Gently mold the center bar onto your horse's spine, then mold the side rods onto your horse's rib cage.

We can make our Pedro Lopes or Marjoman saddles to the measurements of your horse thanks to the measurements supplied taken with this tool.

How to proceed:

This template is flexible, we advise against sending us the molded template on the back of your horse, which could be distorted during the trip and therefore the measures would be altered.

We therefore strongly advise you to draw the template of the back of your horse on cardboard sheets large enough so that the entire width of the rods can be reported, indicating on each measure the right / left side, and numbering each measure from 1 to 10: 1 for the first measurements at the wither, 10 for the last measurement to the kidneys.

Do not forget to also provide the back line.

Please also attach pictures of your horse, naked, on flat ground, visible until the hooves: profile, 3/4 front and back, front, back, and also a view of the back over the crup.

Please also provide a photo of your horse with the template molded on the back, as laid when taking measurements, to see where measurements have been taken.