It looks a bit pommel-low w/o the pad, but not bad with it (if you use that pad all the time, you might not need to mess w/the flocking, but if you normally use a thinner pad, a flocking adjustment might help). Does this have a point billet and swing rear billet?
Yay! not bad is good, lol. It has regular short billets
But where are the billets located? Are they center hung, or otherwise? You can find photos of center hung, point front, swing rear, etc. billets here: http://saddlefitter.blogspot.com/2012/01/billets.html.
I haven’t had experience with the anatomical girths, but I have a horse with a really short girth spot. The point front and swing rear billet configuration has been the answer for us. Saddle does_not_move! And the girth sits in the correct place finally! I actually came to this conclusion (and solution) by reading Kitt’s blog posted above (a few months ago). Thanks Kitt!
My boy has a round barrel, forward girth groove… he’s been muscling and plumping up since I got him, and I was about to pull my hair out when his saddle suddenly started sliding forward and I couldn’t seem to fix it.
A friend recommended widening the gullet for him (I have a wintec pro jump). For us, it’s worked really well. He has plenty of clearance still, and it no longer slides forward.
I’m no good at saddle fitting, but it saved us from an expensive saddle search/anatomical girth search!
slp2, thanks for the kind words - glad the info is useful to you.
Finding Serenity, a saddle that’s too narrow can scoot forward, too - glad switching the gullet plate out fixed the issue for you.
Thanks Kitt 
I’m glad too!
I’ve read your blog (love it) and was ready to go searching for a saddle, but thankfully (to my budget) all he needed was a gullet adjustment.
It just has the standard short, center billets. Is it expensive to have them changed?
It usually costs around $200 (or less) to have a point front and swing rear installed. Not cheap, but less than the cost of a new saddle, and usually does the trick.
