The Cinch.
its part of the saddle, and theres also the saying "it'll be a cinch" meaning it will be easy.
The main difference is that a Western saddle has a horn, while an English saddle does not.
A roping saddle , which is a Western type of saddle , has a 'slick fork' which facilitates the dismount of the rider ~ see related link below .
the western equivalent to a girth is a cinch.
If your horse has the saddle on and you go to your horses left look at the saddle. if u go from the seat and towards the back where the tail is (the right) the part closes to the tail. (Go on google.com and type in saddle diagrams and youll find what your looking for.)
Its called the "waist"
Saddle can be a noun or a verb.
the back of the saddle is the cantle
The curved part of a saddle is called the "seat."
frame The hard part of a saddle is called a saddle tree.
A saddle bow is the front part of a saddle, arched up like a bow.
depending on what the "back" means, it could refer to a skirt or a cantle or a roll.
The saddle has two chinches (chincha). Everything, stirrups, rope, and even the leather part of the saddle is attached to and covered by the main chinch. The main chinch goes over the leather part of the saddle and all other structural parts. Unlike American saddles, there is no wood or "tree" in the seat of the saddle... just really stiff leather. The leather part has some raised areas in the front and back which would correspond to the pommel (front) and cantle (rear) of the western saddle.... but these were much smaller and made from rocks, covered in rawhide then stitched to the leather. So its leather tubes ;-) I got this from yahoo.answers.com. It is overall a much better site. I am soxroxyursox on Howrse