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Cashel makes a good product and I use a lot of their wares. But my Littlejoe bareback saddle is actually more secure on a horse than a "real" saddle as far as rolling or slipping and is just like riding in an English saddle, well, an English saddle made like a pillow!

 

chris

Ridecamp Guest <guest-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Please Reply to: Ron Shaffer ron.shaffer@xxxxxxx or ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> I bought a couple of them to use when we took our horses camping
> at Montona de Oro, CA (beach riding). I didn?t want to get salt 
> water on our good saddles and they worked very well. I used 
> neoprene breast collars with ours just as a precaution since 
> none of our horses had been in the ocean before and didn?t know 
> how they would take to it at first
>  but to my surprise after 
> getting over the noise from the surf they seemed to enjoy 
> playing in the water. After riding in the surf we just hosed 
> them off like advertised. The longest ride we took was about 2 
> and half hours. The saddles are not as secure as a traditional 
> saddle but they are more secure than just a bareback pad. 
>
> My daughter liked the saddles so much she used one during some 
> group lessons she was taking. Her instructor saw it and asked 
> if she could try it on one of her horses that was having wither 
> rubbing problems with the saddles she has. She actually liked 
> it so much she asked to keep the one I loaned her and bought me 
> a new one to replace it. At first I thought it might have 
> broken down and she didn?t want to tell me but I see her riding 
> in it all the time so it looks like they hold up pretty well.
>
> One last note, about 2 months after receiving the soft saddles 
> we got a package from Cashel with two
>  small files (for the two 
> saddles we bought) and an explanation that some of the D rings 
> used in the saddles had burrs that could cut into the webbing 
> used for both the stirrups and cinch. The instructions showed 
> were the burrs might be and the files were for removing them. 
> Of the two saddles we bought one had burrs and one didn?t. The 
> new saddle that I got from the instructor to replace the one I 
> loaned her has different D rings altogether so this should not 
> be an issue now but if anyone has bought these saddles say about 
> 4 to 6 months ago or longer you might want to make sure you 
> don?t have this problem.
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