A.D Equestrian Saddlery Services

20/11/2025

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A new season begins long before the first event.

Now is the time to refine, reset, and plan ahead - from checking saddle fit to exploring designs that best support your next goals.
Whether you’re schooling through winter or building toward next year’s competitions, Erreplus saddles are crafted to help you and your horse move as one.

Because every season of success starts with the perfect match.

14/11/2025

Absolutely love the new PARIS! One of my favourite models at Prestige 🤩

09/11/2025

I am excited to introduce you all to our new saddle fitter Amanda Riley.

Amanda will be working Tuesdays and Saturdays so we can now again offer more weekend appointments.

Amanda inherited her passion for horses from her mother which led her to a diverse equestrian career. She has worked as a groom on competition yards, livery yards and rehabilitating injured racehorses. Her personal experience having owned three ex-racers and the saddle fitting challenges she faced with them, ignited her decision to become a saddle fitter.

Following rigorous training with the Society of Master Saddlers and mentorship with myself, Amanda now applies her extensive knowledge of equine care to the art of saddle fitting. She is dedicated to ensuring the comfort and welfare of every horse and considers it a privilege to be part of the team committed to their wellbeing. Amanda is ready to help you, and your horse find the perfect fit working at AD Saddlery Services.

03/11/2025

Lara and Grace are complete Erreplus converts with their lovely boys Joey and Bagel

Bagel (bay) is sporting the Erreplus connect and Joey (grey) is sporting the Erreplus GTS 🥰🥰

Bagel also has the Erreplus EM (lucky boy!)

09/10/2025

We are excited to receive our first order of these …

03/10/2025

Booking in the diary

For those of you who are super organised and have already messaged or requested before I went off for a Nov appointment I will be in touch early next week to confirm date of fitting.

For anyone else who would like an appointment between Nov and Christmas please get in touch to book as appointments with myself will be limited.

But fear not ….
Exciting news - we have a new fitter starting with the company in November 🤩 I will do a separate post to introduce this lovely lady in due course.

03/10/2025

Im back! After a lovely few weeks of the newborn bubble I am starting to think about work.
For those who don’t know I had a beautiful baby boy on the 23rd August and named him Samuel.

In other news we had a great day out at BETA last Sunday with fellow fitting friends. I even dragged my husband along to drive me and Sam.

More exciting news/developments to come so stay tuned!

05/08/2025

Although I have now officially finished for maternity leave I’m going to try and improve my social media presence over the upcoming months.

To start off with here is Joey in his new Erreplus GTS - isn’t it beautiful 😍
Joey’s owners Lara and Grace are complete Erreplus converts, they just love the fit for the horse, the quality of the saddles and the support for the riders.

23/07/2025

"You need to use bare trees on a horse to fit the saddle properly"
Nope. I disagree.

Firstly, sometimes I DO use bare trees on a horse (see photo), but 99% of the time it's for the client's benefit. It's to show them something, or demonstrate something about the fitting.

Why don't I think it's essential?
Well, firstly, your fitter should know about the trees in the saddles they're fitting. They'll know how each tree sits and fits....
Also, the bare tree sits VERY differently than the tree inside the saddle. The traditional wooden trees are webbed and strained according to the horse. Eg when I order a saddle for a horse, I will not only ask for a specific tree in the saddle (some models can have multiple tree options in them) but I will often ask for it to be webbed differently for specific fits.
Some trees are a different shape outside of the saddle - as the rest of the saddle give structure to the tree in some brands (eg Aviar)
Some companies - Eg Albion - MAKE each tree to the template of the horse (I've got a super video of this, I'll dig it out one day soon) so a bare tree can give some idea of how it'll fit but not be exact.
And also, let's take Ideal as an example... they have about 200 different models of trees in their saddles. If we have to carry a 15, 15.5, 16, 16.5, 17, 17.5, 18 in each one, in NM, M, MW, W, W+, XW, XXW, ###W... then that is 11,200 trees we would have to carry... JUST FOR ONE BRAND. So, if we do 8 brands, that's about 90,000 trees... and each one costs about £200.... so that's a mere £18 million worth of trees to carry... 🤣

I see things online where non-fitters are implying that the saddle companies and fitters are keeping things secret by not sharing their trees with the world. I can say, hand on heart, that every company that I work with are happy to share the bare trees with me. I have a selection of trees from Ideal, Bates, Aviar, Custom, Wintec, Arena, Envy, WRSC/Excelle etc.

And... if you're interested in bare trees, and think they're hidden from the public, check out Abbey England... you can buy them on there. Including my personal favourite... the BB3 tree...

So, if your fitter brings some bare trees to your fitting - YAY for them! and you! It's GREAT! You can have a good look at the tree, and have a feel of how it sits etc. But, if your fitter doesn't bring bare trees, is it the end of the world? No, not at all, not if you trust your fitter to know about the saddles that they fit. Just ask them some questions and they'll be happy to answer.
We all want you to be as informed as possible.