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Similarly, there are saddles designed for keeping a rider comfortable on long trail rides. Many commercial trail riding businesses just use older, used western saddles because they are inexpensive and safe.
Old western saddles are the safest and most cost-efficient saddles for these companies to use. In this article, I will be reviewing some of these saddles.
Cashel Trail Saddles creates their saddles with the comfort of both the horse and the rider in mind. Cashel makes their trees out of carefully dried and handmade wood, with a fiberglass finish. This allows for necessary movability without allowing the possibility of warping and disfigurations in the wood. Cashel trail saddles are made with soft, high-quality leather, and they include appropriately proportioned foam padding for additional comfort.
These saddles typically weigh between 25 and 27 pounds, so they are relatively heavy, but comparable to other western and trail saddles. Cashel Trail saddles are a custom fit to the horse and they are a comfortable fit for the rider. This is a very reasonable price for any type of custom saddle and is comparable to other western and trail saddles on the market today. Their saddles can be viewed and the company can be contacted at this link. The Allegany Mountain Trail Saddles takes a different, but still effective approach to optimizing the comfort of their saddles.
Allegany uses Steele trees made out of pine, and also coated in fiberglass, as well as resin. This method was developed by Steele Saddles and is ideal for creating a custom fit for each and every horse. While Allegany Mountain uses very high-quality leather, there is no mention of any foam padding in their saddles.
While saddles can certainly be comfortable without foam padding, it allows for additional support and comfort in saddles that do have it. These trail saddles offer many customizable features such as strings, tie rings, and different rigging options for different pieces of tack, including breastplates, cinches, and more. With their innovative fitting technique and other desirable features, Saddles by Steele creates an All-American custom saddle that trail riders love.
Like Allegany Mountain Trail Saddles and Cashel Trail Saddles, their saddles are made with wooden trees, typically out of yellow pine or western cedar. But, Saddles by Steele has a method of custom fitting that is unique to their company.
They send out a molding kit to each prospective buyer. You are going to find the English riders and the Western riders are in similar positions. You should be able to define a vertical straight line from their ear, shoulder, middle of the hip, back of the heel to the ground.
This vertical alignment that we must maintain while riding the horse in his three gaits is so similar. For example, the western rider can ride with two hands just like the English rider. This is a similar balanced position. Remember, the horse does not care about the saddle as long as it fits properly. Communication through the natural aids: Whether you are riding in a Dressage or Western saddle, the universal aids to communicate with seat, legs, and hands are all the same. It should not matter what saddle you are in, as long as you are consistently using your aids correctly.
My Western Dressage saddle is just as much close contact to my horse as my dressage saddle. I just love it! If you are interested to see my two custom made Western Dressage saddle that I use, click here! Also, take a peak at our English Dressage saddle; handmade in France that has a tree we developed specifically for the Stock Horse breeds or other horses with broad shoulders and broad backs. It is something special and surely gives you a correct balance when you ride in it.
If you would like to see this, just click here. If you would like to try one of our saddles, please contact my husband, Cyril at cyrilalliancesaddlery msn. The pages on HHT are so wide-ranging and interrelated that we strongly recommend you look at the site plan to find other subjects that may interest you, however here are some pages directly related to Dressage Saddles: Help or Hindrance?
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