23/10/2023
**THURSDAY RESEARCH MEME**
Todays meme relates to back templates pre and post exercise.
Back templates are an essential part of saddle fit, and if done correctly can provide information on how the horse’s back shape “may” have altered.
Whilst useful, it is important to consider the horses posture, the time of day that measurements are taken, the horse’s standing posture (square), pre/post exercise and head/neck position etc.
Image A (Top) with the pre and post exercise templates superimposed on each other, appears that the horse has “come up” or it’s back muscles “have got smaller”.
Image B is the same templates (as A) but corrected for a change in horse height.
Whilst useful, these complexities highlight the need for the ridden element of saddle fit, impossible to fit a saddle statically (in the stable and not ridden) or through the post!
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