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The spongy grips, stock saddle, and wide puncture-resistant tires of Cowboy design did a fine job of gobbling up road vibrations, even on the bumpy bricked roads common in Amsterdam.

On one particularly long stretch of brick road, that rigid frame sent every vibration straight through the stock saddle and into my sit-bones.

Howard began slipping out to the barn in the morning with Pollard, and one day when the urge was too strong they got out a stock saddle and cinched it on Seabiscuit.

For a moment he glanced back over his shoulder, then moved onward in her direction, followed, after a while, by some twenty riders, each with a carbine poised across the horn of his stock saddle.

The stock saddle, with its high horn and deep seat, was not so different from what I’d been used to—except as to weight.