Superb comfort and security with added knee roll and pommel. Center fire rigging is great with Gaited horses. Frees shoulder movement. Only 10 lbs. Wonderful for Trail, Endurance, Gaited Riders.

April Battles of Holistic HorseWorks shares her findings over the years on why saddles don't fit and what you can do about it.

After many years of battling EPM, finally all of my beloved horse are fine! I hope you can learn something from my experience. There have been times I’ve sat and cried, watching what was happening to them — heart breaking. My first EPM battle came with a Quarter Horse mare CiCi. She kept falling down with me.

Endurance rider Bobbie Jo Lieberman (former Editor-in-Chief of Trail Blazer magazine and Senior Editor of EQUUS) discusses her journey going treeless and what worked for her and her horse Jazz.

I could tell by how her top line was developing, that the saddle wasn’t doing her any favors.  I think I tried 10 different saddles: hunt seat, dressage, western, trail, you name it, before an endurance friend recommended the Freeform.

Flame is a QH/App now 9-year old mare that is old school QH — round and stocky and thick. Fitting her has been a nightmare…however, as you will read, the nightmare is over and the dream of seeing my horse and me riding happily in a saddle that feels as if it were custom made for us both has come true!

Just wanted to give you a little Svenna update- she has changed SO MUCH since I bought the Freeform. Her back looks incredible. Really, her whole body has muscled up properly because she can get over the back and really work. See the before and after pix below.

Shortly after purchasing my Fjord mare, I set about finding a saddle. I was an English rider, but had also learned to love trail riding, We found Paulita and Freefrom after much trial and error. Hello centerline & balance! My bottom doesn’t hurt, not even a little bit. My saddle fits two mares and they're happy. Please give a treeless saddle a try. I had no idea what I was missing.