French saddles

[Mickie Newnam <akela@peoplepc.com>]

Linda,
Are the saddles you mentioned from France the Slesse saddles?  If so, I'd
heartily endorse the concept.  Haven't ridden in one but at the recent Equine
Affaire in columbus OH I was helping my cousin saddle shop and we looked at
them (her instructor is a rep).  Talked at length to the creator, Jochen
Slesse, and he knows his stuff.  My cousin even told him that for someone who'd
never ridden distance he knew all the issues we had with saddles (he did event,
I believe, so there was some of the same concept).  And he could show and
explain how he dealt with them.  My cousin didn't order one, simply because of
the price -- just out of her budget at this point.  But for someone wanting an
English-style saddle that can really be custom-fit and adapted as the horse
changes, they'd be the place to go! Don't have a URL but if they have a site
looking up "Slesse Saddles" should bring it up.
Mickie

"Linda B. Merims" wrote:

> The thing I find particularly exciting, unmined territory is
> the wide variety of European endurance saddles.  Teddy Lancaster
> posted the URL of a French saddle company several months ago
> whose products looked extremely interesting.  (I'd repost the
> URL but the Ridecamp archive seems truncated and I can't find
> it.)