Sydney was yet again a busy week! All we can say is that the weather was beautiful the people were smiling and enjoying the sunshine all weekend! I had quite a lot of saddle fittings, some new clients and some of my regular clients, remember if you have a ph new saddle, or second hand, any brand of saddle for that matter! fittings are always open a month or two before my trip, so please call us, keep an eye out on our calender and facebook to see when we are coming up your way!
Another day out on location and i would like to thank Sustainable Horse Keeping for writing an informative and unbiased article about my saddlefitting and what they thought of the consultation! It was great! Read their article on their blog and watch their video on youtube! Thanks again Sue and all of the team at Sustainable Horse Keeping and Gold Coast Horse for taking the time to write this article.
A sincere thankyou to Dr Joanna Robson From Inspiritus Equine for coming out to Australia once again for Equitana to be a guest speaker, and to promote her practice.
After many dinners talking about equine back health and planning our lecture, we had truly the best crowd we have had in a long time! Everyone was so receptive, interested, and agreeable to what we were showing them! I am so thrilled to show our clients the missing link of what was upset, chaos and confusion over which saddle you should use, who to listen to, and what to look for in a saddle that DOESN’T FIT!
For a sneak peek, see the three images below! Yes it is a real horse’s scapula, which unfortunately I had to throw out, as after a year in the freezer, I had tried to vacuum pack it, but it wasnt enough to keep out the smell from 39 degree Sydney heat! A very humorous joke between the family & Joanna found it extremely funny, I was just sad, as I could no longer use it in my lectures due to the horrible stench! However I did take photos!
Below you can see from left to right
1. Saddle tree which if not fitting correctly can DIG into the horse’s scapula, and cause irreversible damage
2. The Adaptree(r) which is a patent design, allowing COMPLETE shoulder freedom movement, curved away from the scapula, and extremely flexible, moving with the horse as he bends and flexes.
3. The difference between a standard tree and the Adaptree(r)
I won’t explain much more as i think you should see the video for yourself! Scroll to the bottom of this post for the link to watch the seminar in HD courtesy of EQ Life Magazine.
Testimonials from the Lecture! THANKYOU!
Missed out on the Seminar? Watch it in HD below!!
Peter Horobin and Dr Joanna Robinson Saddle Fit 4 Life Demonstration from Equestrian Life Australia on Vimeo.
Time is going so fast! My Travel Diary is so full leading up until and after xmas. This is the current timetable
We appreciate all of our customers from QLD waiting patiently for me to come up, the time has finally come and both Julie and I are looking forward to seeing our regular clients and also any new clients are always welcome! Throughout Australia we are extremely lucky to have such wonderful people open their properties and their homes to us and our clients, as we truly appreciate it so much! So thankyou!
With the little amount of time, and the need for my son Rhys and Myself to be in the workshop we now doing our saddlefittings in certain locations, as we just don’t have the time or (I) the stamina anymore (I’m getting old! to travel around the country side like in the old days.
When we first started saddlefitting i used to work for 6am in the morning until 10pm doing saddle fittings, take the saddles back to my hotel room and stuff them there until 2am, wake up and do it all again!
It’s this hard work however that has led to the constant amazing customers we have continuing to see us to this day!
The two locations and dates for QLD are
SATURDAY 14th JANUARY
South Port Pony Club – Queen Street, South Port
MONDAY 16th JANUARY
Elite Warmbloods Stud – 300 Dixson Lane, Ramsay QLD (near Toowoomba)
These will be the only two days in QLD so if you are interested in a saddlefitting or a NEW saddle please contact us (03) 59751055 as once those spaces are gone then that’s it!
First of all apologies i have not been very active on the blog lately, we have been so busy making saddles i have had very little time to do not much else but MAKE saddles!
Wow! What a fantastic Equitana! For the 3rd year now our dear friend and colleague Dr Joanna Robson from California came out to assist on the stand, and also to promote her practices through her great saddle fitting lectures!
I have lectured at Equitana for the last 10 years now and i love seeing all of the new faces astonished with the footage, images and explanations we provide about recognising your horse in pain and what you can do about it!
We had customers who came specifically to purchase a saddle whilst they were there, and after our seminars, they came over and were so thankful they were provided with the vital information they needed to consider before laying their hard-earned cash on the table! I had one beautiful customer who actually started getting upset because she so wanted to do the right thing for her horse and was absolutely blown away by the scientific evidence we put forth to show how important it was to have a correctly fitting saddle.
We were so happy that we could make a difference! If you missed the lectures we have last years lectures below for you to have a look at, EQ Life Magazine will also be releasing their footage from Equitana 2011 so will keep you posted.
We are starting to organise all of our saddle fittings next week, (22nd Nov) for NSW these are the following areas where Rhys and myself will be visiting at the end of November
If you didn’t get the chance to get in contact with us during or before Equitana please contact us immediately as we will be leaving at the end of the month and will be saddle fitting until the first week of December, and would love to fit you in!
SA and QLD we havent forgotten about and we will be contacting you as well for a trip and will have the dates all ready to go!
Have a look at Dr Joanna Robson’s website she has some great references to offer!
Win a PH SADDLE Join our Facebook Page or see our competition tab on the website for details!
This is a great competition! We really wanted to reward our customers and get them involved in this one!
Join our Facebook Page for details, see the competition tab, like our page and then you will be sent to the website page where you will find all of the details to WIN this great prize! how fantastic! so excited!
Good luck! I am looking forward to seeing all of the entries.
Also click here for details
Equitana 2011 is creeping up very quickly, and we are all very excited about the first EVER Sydney Exhibition. The Equestrian Industry is a multi billion dollar industry, and it is growing rapidly every year.
Brett Parbery and Peter Horobin
For many years now we have had a very stable clientel base in NSW and the Sydney Exhibition is definitely exciting as we can broaden our services to more parts of the country!
We were the first company to buy a stand at Equitana, back in 2000 when the industry was very careful about wanting to pay a large amount for a stand in which they had no results of success or attendance. It feels great when I bump into Fraser Bayne who was a part of the committee, who now works for the Melbourne Racing Club, he always reminds me with a cheerful greeting.
‘Mate, I will never forget! you were my first Equitana Sale! When no one else wanted to jump the gun, you always did! and then all of a sudden the whole place was fully booked!’
Equitana 2008
Since 2002 i have been lecturing as an educational speaker about saddle fittings and equine back health. Since 2008, i introduced Dr Joanna Robson to the Equitana Circuit and have learnt so much from her. Dr Robson is incredibly intelligent, well spoken, informative and experienced in the field and has lectured all over the world including Equitana in Germany, The World Cup, Vegas/Kentucky & many more.
I look forward to joining forces again this year to present our NEW & updated Saddle Fitting Lectures.
Please click here for details
As well as being a Saddle Maker, as a Saddle Fitter it is extremely important to be up to date with your knowledge of what is going on around you!
Michael & Lara Tweedie ride in Peter Horobin Saddles and are always coming into the shop for a chat, attending our social evenings or we are always crossing paths consulting the same clients. We have to all work together to help you and your horse live a happy healthy lifestyle. Not only do people have to earn their qualifications in both the Saddle fitting & Vetinarary field, on the job experience is vital & can differentiate between a professional who is qualified & a professional who is experienced AND qualified.
Both organisations have had over 30 years out in the field, always learning and never giving up in what we believe in. equine back health.
Tweedie & Associates Equine Veterinary Services are a well established, professional, caring and supportive veterinary practice who provide a large spectrum of services including
Michaelwith a M.A.,VetMB, MRCVS at the University of Cambridge, England & Lara with BVSc (Hons) at Sydney University (also in the process of manufacturing & selling a fantastic NEW line of racehorse supplements) are taking the country by storm with their honest, hard-working dealings. As saddlefitting and the issues that can come of it are more than common in a Vet’s field Michael has kindly written an article about Saddle Fitting performance from a Vets perspective!
Lara Tweedie with Mark Todd's Horse Gandalf at Shatin 2008 Olympics
