horseback riding
A cutback saddle has an opening cut into the pommel that will allow extra room for a horses withers. Depending on the shape and angle of the pommel, a cutback saddle can be called a straight-head saddle or sloped-head saddle. Further down this page is a link to an article on cutback saddles, written by saddlery expert Lois Gilbert, which first appeared in the magazine Practical Horseman.A cutback saddle is a type of saddle often used in "saddleseat" or gaited horse riding.
A cutback saddle can be made for any discipline. It is designed so the pommel is cut farther back to accommodate high withered horses.
For the level 8 test, the answer is saddleseat.
The only discipline that uses a cutback saddle is saddleseat. Saddlebreds, Arabians, Morgans, National Show Horses, and Tennessee Walkers are the most common Saddleseat breeds. Saddleseat pleasure horses pick up their feet really high and have very long tails. Saddlebreds were the original breed that saddleseat riding was performed on. But a cutback saddle is longer than a huntseat saddle, and it doesn't have knee rolls.
The only discipline that uses a cutback saddle is saddleseat. Saddlebreds, Arabians, Morgans, National Show Horses, and Tennessee Walkers are the most common Saddleseat breeds. Saddleseat pleasure horses pick up their feet really high and have very long tails. Saddlebreds were the original breed that saddleseat riding was performed on. But a cutback saddle is longer than a huntseat saddle, and it doesn't have knee rolls.
saddleseat
Cut back saddles are usually used with gaited horses, but am not aware of a particular discipline.
The cutback saddle is so designed to allow space for the high withers of some breeds -- Tennessee Walking Horses, American Saddlebreds, some Thoroughbreds, etc. The cutback is most often a saddleseat saddle, with a flat seat, and is popular with the most formal riding style and these high-headed, convex-back horses. Roping and trail horses are most often Quarter Horses with wide backs and low withers, more suited to Western saddles (although many trail horses are TWH or Missouri Foxtrotters, they areused in Western or endurance saddles). Dressage horses, though often Thoroughbreds, are ridden in specially designed dressage saddles with long skirts and non-cutback trees. Side saddles are constructed on special trees with a specially long point on the near side to balance the weight and are rarely cut back. In short, the cutback is most often used in a Lane Fox-type saddle, for saddle seat riding.
If you ride a horse with a saddle, you're more secure, and its less likely you'll fall off. Also, with a saddle, your feet are in stirrups. Some beginners hold onto the front of the saddle when trotting. Riding without a saddle requires skill and balance. Riding without a saddle is called riding bareback.
Yes, of course. A saddle gives you grip when riding and has stirrups- an essential piece of tack, which support your feet when riding. sometimes you ride without a saddle(bareback riding), but it is not good to ride bareback very often, so yes, you will need a saddle!
Bareback bronc riding and saddle bronc riding. But it used to be 10 seconds for saddle bronc riding