Saddle fitter out to measure Yellow horse for a saddle. But when she got to the question about colour options…I froze and chose boring basics. Now I am rethinking. The saddle is for me - a (slightly past) middle aged rider - to specifically fit my saddlebred goofball gelding. He is a mid tone palomino with a blaze and crazy eyes. I don’t think he is a hunter, although maybe.
The saddle has a few options - main colour, colour for flap & seat, the trim/cording? around the seat, the wider strip between pannels and seat, and the back of the cantle.
The saddle fitter does lovely tooling, so I had thought of getting the piece behind the cantle and the stirrup leather keeper thing tooled.
What colours leather would you see on a palomino? Would you have fun with colour cording? Patend leather trims? I guess I have only seen it for dressage. The saddle i tried was black with silver/grey piping…I admit i loved it (the flap and tree was wrong for me and horse), but I struggle to pay $$ on something unfashionable…but that seems silly…I am anything but fashionable!
Ideas/thoughts/examples?
This will be my last jumping horse, and I assume the saddle with sell with him, so not really worried about resale, or about it looking good on another horse.
See username, lol).
). But you’re lucky that both dark brown and black make an excellent base for palomino, so choose your poison (or whatever matches your girth and bridle if you’re fond of them, lol). I’ve never personally had a saddle where fancy was an option, so I’m not speaking from experience on durability, resale, etc… but as you said, this is just for you and him. I say, if you see an option listed that makes your heart sing, go for it! If you’re on the fence about whether you actually like it, then don’t. (If I were in your boots, I’d go chocolate brown, tooled cantle, with a splash of steel blue somewhere. But that’s just me!)
