Ask the Saddle Fitter - Are custom saddles worth it?

[@summerengland7179]

Thanks for covering my question! I greatly appreciate it 😁

[@megancav11]

Thank you , so much!

[@daniellewentzel5102]

First, yay! Thank you Smartpak for this video, helped me know a bit more, as my hore's current saddle doesn't fit him

[@itsbevinallison]

But who has the money to Taylor the saddle every time the horse changes shape? As one works the muscle changes or if the diet changes the horses weight changes. Ud have to be independently wealthy to be measuring every few months for those changes and then fixing the saddle again and agian and again to be right for the horse or the saddle would start to be no different fit wise to them than an off the peg saddle. Let alone if the horse has to be off work, another saddle refit cause the muscle is gone and shape has changed, which only take a couple weeks. I know it's ideal to fit it exact, but for real ppl, that is never going to be attainable. An in the middle option would have been nice. I've also heard the argument that fitting a saddle never let's the horse correct bad muscle, because the saddle fit is always reaffirming it through unchanging shape and being artificially selected for. Idk how accurate that is, but info on that would have been cool too.