I went to different websites and found that they made almost identical saddles.
#Ortho flex saddle serial number how to
I looked online on how to get in touch with Eli and Henry Miller. I had heard online that Miller saddles featured a very comfortable suspended ground seat that still allowed for close contact with the horse. I starting looking for a saddle with a suspended seat, either elevated like the trooper saddles or lower down like Aussie and some English saddles. The ground seat in it was just not comfortable for me, and I knew I wouldn’t be able to do the whole trip in it.
A month previous in southern Pennsylvania I had started looking for a new saddle to replace the first one. After deciding this saddle would work, I made sufficient tie out points to attach my saddle bags. I then rode it one day with my new friend Amy Wallace Whelan and her endurance friend. This was after noticing that the ground seat under the sheepskin had foam glued to it. So my first task was to remove all of it. It featured the original flex panel system, known as System I.Īs I tried it on my horse on our days off at the 1000 mile mark of our 5000 mile trip I noticed it fit, but the old built in sheepskin covering was old, ratty and smelly. The Orthoflex I modified was #313, originally made for endurance rider Julie. I had to do a few things to this old barn stored saddle before making it workable for me. I was humbly gifted a 1st Gen Orthoflex to use as a replacement for the Big Horn Endurance 120 saddle I used on the 1st 1000 miles of my solo horse ride from Canada to Guatemala. This is the story of the modifications done for my solo horse ride.
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