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Saddle Options
A custom made saddle, without the custom price!
It's your saddle - It's your choice!
MIX AND MATCH TO GET THE SADDLE YOU WANT!
We want you to have a saddle that fits you and your horse well, so all our saddles are custom made to your requirements. You can choose any combination of the following:
- Cantle height:
- Knee Pads: Western Drafter or Southern Drafter;
- Leather: Any combination of rough and smooth leather and the option of lighter weight leather;
- Rigging: Equaliser saddles available with cable rigging or in-skirt rigging. (In-skirt rigging $80 extra (incl GST in Aust) (Int:$72.72AUD ex GST).)
- Skirt: Flank dee with double skirt or one piece skirt and no flank dee (slimline);
- Fender Options: Fender saddles available with spring bars or over tree;
- Polocrosse and Pony Club - All our saddles can be fitted with a webbing surcingle for attaching a second girth for pony club or polocrosse competitions;
- Wool or felt lining - Wool $30AUD extra (incl GST in Aust) (Int:$27.27AUD ex GST). We recommend felt lining in preference to wool especially in hot climates and stock work conditions. Felt lining has a much longer life, is less likely to attract burrs and is much easier to maintain (just a matter of hosing it).
Rigging Styles
Cable Rigging
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In-skirt Rigging |
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Station Special Rigging
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Saddle Top View showing cut away
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Patented “Double H Ranch” Cable Rigging
Features:
- Revolutionary stainless steel cable rigging;
- Continuous cable runs through the pommel and joins behind cantle;
- Cable rigging designed to give the best girthing position for individual horses;
- 19 strand stainless steel cable;
- Cinch lace fits directly to cable - less bulk;
- Tree with cable tested to a strength of 2.2 tonne.
- Heavy PVC coating protects the cable from wear.
Advantages of cable rigging:
• Closer leg contact;
• Allows rider to slide cinch laces to the best girthing position;
• Saddle finds its own balance;
• Greater stability.
• Less likely to need a flank girth.
"Customers purchasing a personal saddle overwhelmingly choose saddles with cable rigging."
Spring Bar
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Over Tree |
The Spring Bars on our fender saddles are similar to those on a flap saddle with the fenders under the flap instead of over. Spring Bar fenders give more freedom of movement, especially forward, so someone who has been riding in a flap saddle would adjust to them easily. The Spring Bar fender has the added safety advantage that if the rider gets thrown and hung up, chances are that the fender will slip off the spring bar.
Fenders over the tree are designed for a person who likes to ride fairly straight up and down, dressage or western style. Our saddles have a rock bar where the fender strap goes over the tree which has a pivoting effect as the fender moves back and forth with the leg.
We have found that whichever style people choose they soon adapt to it.
Western Drafter Knee Pads
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Southern Drafter Knee Pads |
Flank Dee with double skirt
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Slimline - one piece skirt and no flank dee |
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