I’m looking at LeMieux half pad and some are saying it’s for dressage and some do not include a specifics. I plan to use the half pad for the dressage saddle and my close contact saddle. Does it matter that if I get the dressage half pad and it’ll be fine for my close contact saddle?
Here’s the link:
https://www.dressageperformance.shop/collections/lemieux/products/lemieux-pro-lambskin-dressage-half-pad-white
I plan to get a large since both of my saddles are 17.5 inches.
Ok after I wrote this, I googled the Le Mieux website. They have so many corrective pads and saddle pads and fkeecies its impossible to identify which one you might mean. Can you provide a link?
Not familiar with that pad. But always look at the cut of the pad. A jump pad will have a more forward cut and a dressage pad will be more straight up and down.
I am using a nice mattes jump sheepskin with a dressage saddle currently but the pad definitely sticks out ahead of the saddle in a way that’s really “strictly for schooling” :).
On the other hand if you paired a jump saddle with a dressage pad the saddle might run over the edge of the pad.
But if its a thinline type corrective pad that just sits under the panels of the saddle it would be multiuse I think.
Jump or AP cut half pads angle forward in front to accommodate that flap style. Dressage half pads will go straighter down in front to accommodate that flap style.
If you buy it large enough, and don’t care about it following the contours of the saddle flap, you can make either work under any style saddle. You just don’t want the pad to end underneath the saddle. Extra bits sticking out won’t bother the horse.
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