Saddle Fitting: Are most horses lefties? Saddle fitting – the perils of putting symmetrical saddles on asymmetrical horses We were not surprised to learn 60% of the horses in our 490 horse retrospective study had larger measurements on the left side of their withers,” says Dr. Katrina Merkies, researcher and associate professor at the University of Guelph. Undergraduate students, Julia Alebrand, Bethany Harwood, Katharine Labarge and Laura Scott digitized and compared years of measurement data gathered from a saddle fitting company, which used a flexible wither tracing tool. The empirical … Continue reading Saddle Fitting: Are most horses lefties?