Montague Saddles - Julie Knaggs

21/08/2024

SMART Benefits 👌 for the Rider

You’ve often heard me rave about how fabulous SMART Saddles are for horses, but what about the rider? 🤔

SMART Saddle rider benefits include:
💚 Optimal Rider Balance: The stirrup bars are positioned for balance, not restricted by tree points. This enhances comfort and security, allowing for a correct position and easier self-correction.
💚 Zero Concussion: No push from a rigid frame means it’s excellent for riders’ backs.
💚 Subtle Aids: Horses respond more easily to subtle cues because they can clearly feel the rider’s slightest position changes. This also means the rider can feel the horse’s back, improving aid precision.
💚 Comfortable Seat: The flexible seat allows extended periods in the saddle without seat bone discomfort.
💚 Lightweight: Easy to carry and lift, even onto large horses.
💚 Economical: A major advantage is the ability to monitor and adjust the fit and balance as needed throughout the year. This offers an economical solution – simply replace or adjust low-cost shims instead of the entire saddle! SMART’s high-tech, maintenance-free panels eliminate the need for flocking adjustments.
💚 Versatile: SMART Saddles are initially sized for the rider, then fitted and balanced to the horse, allowing you to use the same saddle on multiple horses.

With a wide range of knee and thigh block options, rider support can be tailored by selecting the size, shape, and placement of each block. For example, a taller rider might prefer a slimline knee block to increase space for a long hip-to-knee length, while a shorter rider may benefit from a larger block that supports the knee further back. The Velcro system makes it easy for multiple riders to use the same saddle, simply by moving or changing blocks and shims as needed.

📷 Nim Hollingshead riding in her SMART Dressage saddle

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12/08/2024

I need your 🫵 help!

I am good at many things … photography is not one of those things! 🙃😂

In fact, I am absolutely USELESS at taking photos during appointments to share on social media. I just get all caught up and lost in the moment during SMART Saddle Test Rides and forget to take any at all! 🤭

Do any of my lovely clients please 🙏 have any photos 📸 of themselves riding in their SMART Saddles that EquiEdge Marketing could use in future posts, here on my Montague Saddles page?

You can send them direct to Tori at EquiEdge, pop them on this post or message my business page with them.

ANY photos would be very gratefully received. Thank you.

In the meantime, here for the ‘Facebook algorithms tax’ is a photo I did actually take 📸 recently of my Highlandssoaking their rock solid feet in an attempt to soften them, pre hoof trim!! 🤷🏻‍♀️😂

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05/08/2024

SMART Saddles: What's in it for the horse?

In my humble opinion 💁🏻‍♀️ as an experienced holistic saddle fitter working with a wide array of treed, part-treed and tree-less saddles, SMART Saddles offer unparalleled ✋ freedom of movement. Without exception, every horse and pony I work with in these saddles, has improved.

We all know they’re THE most comfortable saddles on the market to park your backside 🍑 in, but what’s in it for the horse 🤔 :

💚 Fully flexible lateral base panels - engage with the horse’s long back muscle either side of the spine. Fitted with a close contact, the panels flex independently with the movement of the horse to enable freedom of the shoulder, back and trunk, whilst supporting the rider in the saddle.
💚 Responsive gullet - lifts and flexes with the horses' back action, both laterally and longitudinally, to avoid pinching
💚 Self-tensioning girthing system - provides freedom of movement and stability throughout the stride cycle of the horse.
💚 Lightweight - reduces the overall load for the horse to carry (see webinar for research on rider: horse weight ratios.
💚 Changes in back shape, posture and muscle dimension can be accommodated dynamically, promoting long-term good back health without the restrictions of a rigid saddle tree.

Positive improvements commonly seen when using the SMART™ saddle include:
💚 Without restriction, the forehand frees up and horses can more readily find their natural balance, moving more uphill and straighter.
💚 Young horses improve confidence and older horse become happier.
💚 A change and improvement in ridden work with a more forward approach; more forward thinking, confident, calm, willing, able to concentrate, and less spooky, resistant, defensive, evasive, naughty etc.
💚 Physical changes as a result of this: improved musculature and more power, elasticity and expression.

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SMART Saddles

29/07/2024

What can you do in a SMART Saddle? 🤔 Find me something you CAN’T do in a SMART Saddle! 💁🏻‍♀️

📸 Here’s Caroline Benham doing Working Equitation in hers.

The advanced SMART™ saddle design has been developed to meet the requirements of the modern equestrian. Extensive scientific testing throughout development ensures SMART FLEXTech™ Technology allows for the highest level of performance and horse:saddle:rider synchrony.

All SMART Saddles feature:
💚 Flexible base panels and gullet - for a healthy, mobile back
💚 Self-tensioning Y-girthing – provides freedom of movement and saddle stability
💚 SMART™ Elite seat – superior balance; close-contact with a narrow twist for comfortable and effective riding
💚 Customisable knee & thigh blocks- for tailored, adjustable support
💚 Premium materials - classical meets contemporary; customise to your taste, including patent leather keepers and SMART™ Cantle design.
💚 Easy-fit system – adjust the fit with external balance pads, eliminating the need to buy a new saddle each time your horse changes shape.
💚 Unique deformable design – unrivalled safety for horse and rider in the event of a fall

👉 Do you fancy a ‘Test Ride’ in a SMART Saddle a to see what difference it could make to you and your horse? 🤔

Drop me a message 📥 and let’s book you in to try one for yourself!

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26/07/2024

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22/07/2024

“Julie Knaggs, the wicked witch 🧙 of good saddling” - said Jo Szegota, HerdLeader Riding Coach + Simulator.

Well, I’ve been called worse I suppose! 🤷🏻‍♀️ 😂

It’s always such a pleasure to catch up with Jo and her horses. She was kind enough to write me this lovely review after our recent appointment that I just had to share!

“Julie blows my tiny mind every time we have a ‘play date’. She has just popped round for a quick quarterly saddle check and all done in under 5 hours….!!!

That’s because Julie offers so much more to horse and rider. I just love our collaborative sessions looking at rider balance, saddle interaction and the movement of the horses. Loads learnt, and loads more to experiment before our next session.“

Appointments are so much more than just saddle fitting. I love to get my geek on 🤓 and visits to Jo are the perfect opportunity for this! During our most recent session, I also gave Jo - who normally rides in a SMART Saddles PRO Dressage - the opportunity to try out the new SMART Saddles Elite Hunter Jump which personally I am loving at the moment!

I find this model lends itself so well to a variety of rider conformations as an alternative to the standard GP. It offers a different alignment which just seems to work so well for all those I have tried it on so far, most of whom have zero intention of ‘hunting’ or ‘jumping’! 🤭

See what Jo felt in the video below. 👇

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If your horse’s tack needs a tune up, then please get in touch! Based in South East England, I am an independent holistic saddle fitter, SMART saddles technical advisor, trained bridle fitter and equine performance analyst.

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SMART Saddles

12/07/2024

Look at this beauty! 😍

This is the Native Show Saddle from SMART Saddles. A traditional look, low-profile saddle that will flex and fit throughout the seasons!☀️ 🍂 ❄️ 🌱

If you fancy a sit in one, then pop along to the Malvern Highland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Pony Show this weekend! Look out for the SMART Saddles banner 🏳️ where you’ll find me along with some gorgeous Native friendly saddles (including this one 👇 ) for you to see and try!

Pop in for a chat 💬 or to have a sit on a SMART Saddle to feel for yourself how unbelievably comfortable they are. 😍

📍Three Counties Showground, Malvern, WR13 6NW
📆 13th & 14th July

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07/07/2024

Who’s visiting the Malvern Highland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Pony Show next weekend? 🙋🏻‍♀️

📍Three Counties Showground, Malvern, WR13 6NW
📆 13th & 14th July

Look out for the SMART Saddles banner 🏳️ where you’ll find me along with some gorgeous Native friendly saddles for you to see and try! Pop in for a chat 💬 or a sit on a SMART Saddle to feel for yourself how unbelievably comfortable they are. 😍

It would be lovely to catch up with lots of fellow Highland pony fans!

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03/07/2024

How much do I love it when SMART Saddles publish pics and the story of one of my clients journey!
Totally love this gorgeous Connemara and Catherine Heilbron ###
Looking forwards to your onwards and upwards travels!

30/06/2024

What actually are SMART Saddles? 🧐

If you’re an existing client or have been following me for awhile, then you will undoubtedly have heard me banging on about SMART Saddles before! 🤭

But what actually are they? 🤷🏻‍♀️

We’ll only an award-winning 🏆 range of fully flexible saddles like no other!!

SMART Saddles have been carefully developed over years of R&D to eliminate the issues we see created by a rigid saddle tree; improving horse and rider comfort, welfare and performance, both short and long-term. 👌

They’re made using SMART’s FlexTech technology - a very sophisticated, patented, fully flexible, impact absorbing system that ensures changes in horse back shape, posture and muscle dimension can be accommodated dynamically without the restrictions of a rigid saddle tree. 👌They are without a doubt, the most intelligent saddle on the market!

And crucially 👉 the design enables the horse to adopt a healthy posture encouraging functional biomechanics and correct back muscle development for long-term results. 🙌

How? Because it flexes with the horses’ movement

The base panels flex and lift to allow the shoulder to slide underneath it, without affecting the position of the saddle, which makes it a very stable saddle. Where a treed saddle might be pushed out of the way and rock from side to side, lift at the back or sit unevenly to one side with the movement of the horse, a SMART™ saddle will flex around the trunk of the horse and move with the back.

In short: 𝙛𝙡𝙚𝙭𝙞𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 = 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮!

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📆 If you would be interested in booking a consultation, then please WhatsApp 📞 me by clicking the button at the top of my page 👆 or comment below. 💬

🚙 I cover Hampshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Surrey, as well as further afield on request.


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23/06/2024

As those of you who have worked with me in the past will know, I am a HUGE advocate for women’s health 💪 and I’m not afraid to talk about the important issues affecting female riders.

Things like .. B**B BOUNCE! 🍈🍈

So I was really pleased to meet the lovely Mari from MAAREE sports bras when I was at the National Equine show with SMART saddles in March.

MAAREE offer 50+ different sizes 📏 up to an H cup and are committed to:
“Providing support for women so that we are empowered to achieve our potential!”

Definitely check them out!

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Julie Knaggs, SMART Saddles Technical Advisor, independent holistic saddle fitter, equine performance analyst and all round professional horse and rider biomechanics geek based in South East England. 🇬🇧

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16/06/2024

Try-Before-You-Buy 🏇

Did you know❓Following your SMART Test Ride, you can keep any saddle you like INCLUDING all necessary accessories, on trial?

Whether you want to test the SMART saddle hacking out over different terrain 🏔️, have a lesson with your instructor 🗣️ or go out competing 🥇 , there’s no rush to make a decision when trying a SMART saddle!

You can also rent any SMART Saddle for a specific purpose too. Perhaps you’re going away to camp and need a different style of saddle like another of my clients did recently? No problem!

Ride in the saddle as many times as you like for a set weekly rental fee of £75, plus a small security deposit. There’s no maximum hire period either. But if you’re testing own out with a view to buy and you decide to keep any saddle you trial within the first two weeks, then those 2 weeks’ hire are 🆓 when you proceed to purchase a saddle. 🥳

All the more reason to book an appointment to try one with me 𝗧𝗢𝗗𝗔𝗬!

📸 “The best most comfortable saddle ever!!” ~ Lesley Cooper, pictured below enjoying a splash 💦 in hers

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13/06/2024

"Thank God you're not skinny!" - Not for the first time, this is how I was greeted by a new client recently!!! 😂

Whilst some might have been offended by this comment, I knew it was actually intended as a compliment. I also know how hard it is when you feel judged by others, particularly as an *ahem* ‘larger lady’. (By today’s ideals, anyway. 🙄)

But know that whether you are blessed with a slim and athletic 🏃 physique, were built more for cuddles 🥰 than sport, or are somewhere in between - I'm here 🙋🏻‍♀️ to help without judgement during your appointment.

And for those of you who are a bit broken, that’s okay - because I’m a bit broken too and I get it! I have had a knee replacement, shoulder surgery, back surgery, and torn various ligaments, as well as having weight issues. I have also managed childbirth, menopause 𝗔𝗡𝗗 lived to tell the tale. 😉

I am a huge advocate for women’s health. Whatever your physical challenges, I am here to help with a sympathetic approach to support you in finding a solution. 🩷 Wherever there’s a will, there 𝗜𝗦 a way!

Book a no pressure, non-judgemental assessment with me and I will help you to find it.

Drop me a WhatsApp 📞 07879 644211 or a PM to the page for a chat. 💌

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EquiEdge Marketing🐴

03/06/2024

How do you bring your Dales pony back into work after time off being a broodmare? In a SMART Saddle of course! 💁🏻‍♀️⁣
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Here’s my client, riding and leading her Dales ponies. Both fitted in SMART Saddles by me. 🙋🏻‍♀️ ⁣
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And that’s the beauty of these saddles - they’re one saddle for all seasons; of the year ☀️ 🌧️ ❄️ and of your horse’s life. SMART Saddles flex-to-fit and are a saddle fit for life! ♥️⁣
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29/05/2024

Did you know I am also a Quantum bridle fitter! You can try a bridle during your saddle fitting, no obligation as you then order direct.
All for £25 with your saddle refit!

Just ask when booking so I can add extra time!

The Quantum Bridle is the only bridle on the market which has been scientifically proven to be the most comfortable option for your horse.

If you would like to read more about the research behind the bridle the click here -https://quantumbridle.com/pages/research

26/05/2024

More glorious Highland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ponies in SMART Saddles, fitted by meee! 🙋🏻‍♀️

I have known Christine, online, for many years through being involved with the Highland Pony Enthusiasts in the South East group but we didn’t actually meet in person until fairly recently.
She has two handsome Highland boys - ‘Ximen’ (right) who is around 15hhs and is ridden by her tall husband and her son. And ‘Rocky’ (left) who is much smaller at around 13.3hh.

I had the pleasure of fitting both ponies and whilst Christine got on well with the saddles, she felt during her two week trial that she would prefer a lower 🤏 cantle to help make mounting easier as it is something she can struggle with. SMART Saddles being the lovely accommodating people that they are, this was of course no problem and Christine kept the Test Ride saddle whilst she waited. Except in the meantime, they all fell in love with the original saddle so now, these lucky Highland ponies have a brand new SMART Saddle each!! 😍

What was so lovely for me to see during my second visit, was how much confidence the security of the SMART Saddle has given Christine on Xiamen. SO much so that she also felt able to have her first ever sit on Rocky, which was lovely to be a part of. Christine’s riding has really improved since the change of saddle too and she’s now doing things she never thought she’d do again 😲 which is absolutely brilliant!

Now with two saddles but only one with a specially adapted cantle for her, I spent the time to give Christine a dismounting technique lesson on our next appointment. We practiced it together over and over again to really help drill it into Christine’s muscle memory, and I felt like I could see her confidence growing bigger every time. 💓

Watch this space – there will be no stopping her now!! 😉

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20/05/2024

Client spotlight 🔦

Meet 10 year old AES gelding, San Moritz or ‘Mo’ to his friends. 🐴 Owned by BHS Accredited Professional Coach Louise Dyett, Mo was bred for dressage and is by sire San Riant (San Amour) out of Davina, a Donnerblitz mare. Louise has owned Mo for two and a half years and says she seems to 'find' horses who need help! ❤️

“My daughter introduced me to SMART Saddles and I brought the dressage to use on my previous horse who was being rehabbed following a stifle fracture and surgery.

Mo was very backward in his training and thinking and very weak with a lack of topline. He had a very definite NO!
It's been a long road with alot of work to improve the horse physically and get him comfortable. He was very tight in the shoulders and had a very restricted movement behind.”

With the help of their SMART Saddle, Louise has been able to rehabilitate Mo through
a combination of hacking, groundwork and poles under saddle. Now comfortable under saddle, the pair are starting to take part in some riding club shows and clinics.

The is the beauty of using a SMART saddle especially for rehab or ‘problem’ horses - the saddle flexes-to-fit and adapts with the ever changing shape of the improving horse and you can train with confidence, that whatever his or her issue, saddling isn’t one of them!

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14/05/2024

To all my followers who are also small business owners 👇

I can highly recommend Tori at EquiEdge who has completely rebuilt my marketing strategies and increased my reach. Really pleased with her work. Not everyone can talk horse and know the equestrian market like Tori!

Plus she also works with non horsey businesses too! Check out her page EquiEdge Marketing

~ Julie x

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28/04/2024

Anyone who knows me, should know by now that I am absolutely DOTTY about Highland ponies! 😍

I have owned Highlands for nearly 30 years. As well as owning 9 myself, I used to run a Highland pony livery yard, not to mention the Highland pony enthusiast group for the South East of England! So I speak from experience when I say that historically they all seem to wear the same old saddles, that they've always done 🫣 … why is that?

Whilst I work with horse and ponies of all types, working across all disciplines, I seem to have built myself a bit of a reputation as a native pony saddling expert 💁🏻‍♀️, which I must say that I love because I’m so passionate about our Native breeds. But sadly with that, I see a lot of horses and ponies with big, beautiful shoulders and handsome great big flat backs, shuffling along in restrictive saddles. So I’m here to shout 🗣️ from the rooftops to all owners of hairy horses – YOU’RE MISSING A TRICK!

Specialising in native breeds means I also come across a lot of adults riding ponies, just like I do. Quite often, that’s adults squished into saddles that don’t even fit the rider, never mind their ponies! 😮‍💨 They’re squashed in small seats that tip their pelvis, have nowhere for their knee and are just perched on top like a pea balanced on a drum. 😳

But it doesn’t have to be like that and there is another way! 👇

SMART saddles work so, so brilliantly on Highland ponies. The accommodate their broad frames like no other and allow them to freely move in a way that's completely different under saddle. 🤩 The rigid-free design of the SMART Saddle allows the horse’s shoulder to freely slide beneath it which opens up a whole new world of saddle fitting options, allowing riders to choose the style that best works for THEIR conformation, on top of the Native base that works for their pony. 🥳 They are not longer limited to VSD and show saddle cuts! I can’t tell you how liberating (not to mention comfortable!) it is for me as a rider of hairy ponies to be able to park my bottom in a forward cut jump saddle that allows my pelvis to sit in the position that it needs. ☺️

Help me spread the word 📣
⭐️ tag a Native pony owner below who needs to know! ⭐️

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22/04/2024

This is a video you really need to watch with the SOUND ON! 🔊

Jo is a lovely endurance rider who was referred to me by Joanne Archer, a fab chiro I work with regularly. She felt Jo would benefit from a different saddle as issues were not being resolved as well as she would expect following bodywork.

Initially, I refitted their existing saddle to allow for some muscle development and we booked a SMART Saddle Test Ride to coincide with an endurance ride a few weeks later. Jo’s joy from the first minute of riding in the new saddle I felt should be captured and shared, which she very kindly agreed to! 🎥

Fran the horse, started moving so very differently from the very begining but you can see as the video progresses, how much more she starts stretching and lifting into the back.

But don’t just take my word for it - watch Fran for yourself and listen to what Jo has to say! 🗣️

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14/04/2024

The sun 🌞 is shining, winter coats are shedding, and dare I say it, the ground 🌱 even looks like it might be starting to firm up - I think it's about time I started this Highland pony youngster of mine! 🏇

For anyone who hasn’t already met my gorgeous ball of fluff, this is Molly. 💗 She was a little bit of a lockdown impulse-buy 🤭 when I bought her unseen as a 2 year old from a fabulous breeder in Scotland!
Having enjoyed a very relaxed introduction to groundwork whilst she matured, at rising 6, I feel she's now ready to start.

So earlier this week, I decided to pop a saddle on Molly. With gorgeous big shoulders like those and a flat back almost as wide as Scotland itself - it had to be a SMART Saddle! Did she care? Of course she didn’t! 😇

📸 Here’s Molly sporting a forward cut Native SMART saddle.

In my experience, young horses always take exceptionally well to the SMART Saddle from the very beginning. With no tree points to tighten back into the baby horse, we just don’t see the adverse freezing or bucking reactions that you often have in a treed saddle, no matter how well fitting. Instead the SMART Saddle, gently wraps around the barrel, more like a supportive hug. 🥰

The other huge bonus of having a SMART Saddle on a youngster, aside from the fact that it will flex-to-fit as they continue to grow, and develop throughout the seasons of their career, is that the owner can try it on another ridden horse first! This is always a huge bonus with clients who are buying their first SMART Saddle for an unbacked horse - we can pop it on a ridden horse for the rider to try if their young horse isn’t at that stage yet.

Are you starting a young horse of your own this Spring? Get them off to the best start in a SMART Saddle!

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07/04/2024

Did you know, you could have a new SMART Saddle from as little as just £180 a month? 💁‍♀️

Here’s how it works:

📆 Book a Test Ride with me and if you like any saddle you try, then just pay a deposit by card 💳 and I can leave it with you there and then, for you to trial for 2 weeks.

🩷 Love it after 2 weeks?
If you decide to go ahead and purchase any saddle you trial, you can have that 2 week rental period (usually £75 per week) for 🆓 on us!

✔️ Next, knock that £475 deposit you paid by credit/debit card 💳 off the balance of your saddle and choose how you’d like to purchase your saddle. In full or • s p r e a d • the cost over 3, 6 or 12 months.

❌ No 3rd party finance ❌ no interest to pay
✔️ Just a payment plan between you and SMART

👉 And the best bit?
SMART Saddles are a saddle ‘FIT’ for life.

They will continue to flex-to-fit your horse or pony throughout all seasons across his or her riding career and they are made to LAST offering outstanding value for money. Even if you change your horse 🐎, you’ll likely never need a new saddle again!

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31/03/2024

How does a SMART™ Saddle work? 🤔

With no rigid parts like a tree, pommel arch or cantle, the SMART™ Saddle is able to fully flex 〰️ with the movement of the horse, allowing the him or her to move freely without being impeded by the rigidity of the saddle frame and tree points. ❤️ I can’t imagine riding my horses in anything else these days!

As the shoulder blade rotates, it is free to slide under the flexible base panel, resulting in increased stability of the saddle. Where a traditional saddle might rock from side-to-side, lift at the back or sit unevenly to one side with the movement of the horse, SMART™ Saddles flex around the barrel of the horse. When weight is applied, the flexible construction conforms to the back contours and does not ❌ bridge.

The saddle gullet can expand ⬅️➡️ or contract ➡️⬅️ to however wide or narrow the shape of the horse’s back, without pinching. The flexible nature of SMART™ Saddles, means they can accommodate a horse though any changes in shape throughout its lifetime. With no head plate to adjust or flocking to alter, SMART™ Saddles simply flex around the horse, whatever shape he/she is. Balance pads (shims) can also be used as and when needed to maintain optimum fit.

This makes SMART™ Saddles especially perfect when looking for a saddle for a young horse because you can be confident of its continued fit throughout their ridden life. 👌

Do you fancy trying a SMART™ Saddle? Get in touch 📩 to book a Test Ride with me today!

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