Hazel Lord - Saddle Fitter

Hope everyone and their horses are keeping cool in this may heatwave! 🥵☀️🐴

Huge thank you to everyone who has still persevered with their saddle fittings lately despite the temperatures. We’ve been making sure to keep things as low effort and horse-friendly as possible — plenty of shade, water, and taking things steady ❤️

And thank you as well for all the cold drinks keeping a very bedraggled saddle fitter going in this weather 😂

Here's Storm taking a brief moment of shade in his stable … although once breakfast is finished, he much prefers being back out on the hillside with his friends.. or he stresses 🙄

What's your horses preffered routine in this heat? 🌞🥵

✨ SADDLE FITTING WALES ZONE DAY – THURSDAY 11TH June!🐴✨

Newport • Caerphilly • Cwmbran • Chepstow

*Fitting checks
*2nd hand + new stock for a range of budgets
*Flock top ups/full reflocks
*Gullet bar changes/purchase

Whether your horse needs a routine fit check, adjustments to improve comfort and balance, or you're on the hunt for a new saddle, I’ll be covering the South Wales area with appointments available along this route.
I stock a range of second hand and new saddles, along with girths and accessories, and aim to work with a wide variety of budgets where possible.
Check out my page to find out more about me and read some of my reviews ⭐
Limited spaces available — message to book or enquire 📩

Me nagging Flynn about one pair of shoes left in the hallway because they’re “cluttering the place”…
Meanwhile our hallway most days: 🐴🤣

In my defence this is only whilst I load and unload the car. They are usually all kept neatly in our saddle room. (flynn might say different🤣)


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Great start to the week with a busy day jam packed with fitting checks, fuelled by snacks and helpful(ish) cats 🐱😅
I love helping get horses and their riders ready and comfortable for all their summer activities, from Pony Club camps to fun rides… and even some heading off to Harlow camp! Lucky things! ❤️ 🐴

✨Saddle fitting appointments now fully booked up for May!!! 🐴✨
If you’d like to be added to my cancellations list, feel free to message.
I am now taking bookings for June appointments across Bristol, Bath, Gloucestershire, Somerset, South Wales and parts of Wiltshire/Worcestershire.

Spring into summer is a great time of year to have your saddle checked, with workload increases, grass changes and horses often changing shape quite quickly this time of year.🌞

If you’ve been considering getting your horse’s saddle looked at, now is a great time to get booked in and secure a spot for June. 😎

I offer:
• Saddle fit checks
• New & second-hand saddle fitting appointments to suit a variety of budgets
• Flocking top ups and adjustments
• Gullet bar changes
• Help with balance & saddle slip issues
• Full reflocks
• Girth straps and minor repairs

Head to my page to find out more about me, and check out some of my reviews.

Message to book or enquire 🐴

A few of the saddles out on trial this week!.
Been a busy week out fitting in the southwest, met some lovely people and gorgeous horses!
Loving these longer evenings and nice weather ❤️🌞

Adjustable gullet saddle? Have you checked you have the correct bar width lately?

I stock a wide range of gullet bars for:
• Kent & Masters
• Thorowgood
• Fairfax
• GFS
• Cavaletti
• Loxley
• Wintec
• Bates
• Arena
• Hastilow
• Ideal T&T

With the spring grass arriving and changes in turnout, fitness and workload, this time of year can bring shape changes surprisingly quickly 🌱🐴
If your horse is feeling different under saddle, becoming tight through the shoulder, changing muscle shape, or the saddle balance no longer feels quite right, it may simply be time for a width adjustment and fit check and a bar change!

And for those in non-adjustable saddles — this is a great time of year to have your saddle checked too 👌