Hi all, I'm new here and this is my 1st post. So excited to find this thread...I recently bought an old Simco barrel saddle (round skirt) that I love EXCEPT the skirts are digging down into my horse's back, as described in one of these posts. As far as I can tell the bottom skirts are not laced, and the jockeys have a patch (is that what a frog is?) holding them together. That patch thing is making the skirts angle downward.
So, my question is, what if I just take that thing (please excuse my completely un-technical terminology) off? Could it be that simple? If not, is this fixable? Or would it be simpler sell this one and find a different saddle (which sounds like a huge pain and not very simple at all to me)?
Thanks so much, nice to meet you all:)
Diana
