Stabilizing the back end of a western saddle

[beau159]

I would suggest you take pictures of your horse with no saddle, then with the saddle sitting on the back (no pad, not cinched) and then with the saddled cinched up with pad.

Make sure to place the saddle correctly on the back (not too far forward) and take pictures straight from the side, and then at an angle from the front and back.

And then probably make a NEW thread for yourself for feedback.

If the rear of the saddle sits up in the air when it’s cinched up, chances are it is NOT a good fit.

[KIloBright]

[QUOTE=pAin’t_Misbehavin’;7715451]
I don’t know how much movement we’re talking about, but my western saddle moves a little bit under the cantle. Not nearly as much as it moves when I add a bucking strap, though. Those things are well-named!:lol: If I leave off the rear cinch, horse goes fine in the saddle.

So if you decide to add a rear cinch, my advice is to see what the horse thinks of it at all gaits before you sit in the saddle.:)[/QUOTE]

A rear cinch is not a flank strap!. Look at aback cinch, and then look at a bucking strap, far as where they are placed on the horse.
I agree with Beau that if a western saddle fits, it does not lift like that.
My show saddle is a Billy Cook, and does not have a back cinch. It does not lift
My trail and every day saddle, a Balance Ride, does have a back cinch, and when I trail ride in the mountains, that back cinch is done up
What that back cinch does, climbing steep hills and going down them, is stabilize the back of the saddle and prevent that slight back and forth motion over the loins, which can sore a horse.
I agree in having a horse get used to a back cinch, but all mine do, as it’s part of the program
Outfitters that spend months in the mountains, will tell you that if your ride with a loose cinch, make it your front one, and do up that back cinch!