Marlene McRae Saddles & World Champion Designs

02/16/2025

Kim Dobson is looking for a 14” Marlene saddle with the standard tree. If anyone has one they’d like to sell please contact her.

09/05/2024

If anyone has a 13.5” Marlene McRae saddle they’d like to sell please post in comments. I have someone looking.

07/30/2024

Anyone have a 14” Marlene McRae saddle they’d like to sell? I may have a buyer to connect you with.

07/13/2024

Congratulations Marlene McRae on your induction into the Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame! You have been a barrel racing champion but also an instructor and inspiration to so many inside and out of the arena. 🙌

05/07/2024

Marlene McRae already had one of the 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐬 in ProRodeo barrel racing and on July 13, it will get just a little more stacked as she will be inducted into the PRCA ProRodeo Hall of Fame in its 2024 class.

“It’s definitely an honor and icing on the cake, the last part of the equation,” McRae said. “𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐩.”

Already highly decorated in youth rodeo, Marlene McRae exploded into the awareness of ProRodeo fans in 1983. Riding Dutch Watch, a renegade former race and reining competitor that McRae introduced to barrel racing, she qualified to her first of ten National Finals Rodeos (NFR).

Competing in Oklahoma City, then the home of the NFR, McRae 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐠𝐨 𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬, 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐬. In an epic conclusion, she won the 10th go round to clinch her first NFR average and claim the World Championship.

What followed was a string of eight consecutive NFR qualifications and an epic rivalry with the legend Charmayne James and her Hall of Fame horse, Scamper.

En route to those NFR qualifications, McRae and Dutch won nearly every major title available, some multiple times. She dominated in Calgary, winning the famed Calgary Stampede five times, still the most of any barrel racer in history. In fact, she was honored in 2018 by Calgary’s Pioneers of the Rodeo with induction into their Hall of Fame.

𝐌𝐜𝐑𝐚𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐝 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧, 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐨 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐝.

And it was in Calgary, but not at the Stampede, that she solidified one of the most unique accolades owned by any barrel racer, that of being both a WPRA World Champion and an individual Olympic Gold Medalist.

𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 ➡️ https://bit.ly/McRaeHOF24 ⬅️ and find more ProRodeo barrel racing coverage all year long, thanks to Equinety.

Image courtesy The Women's Professional Rodeo Association: (left to right) Charmayne James, Marlene McRae and Martha Josey-Josey Ranch at the 1988 Olympic Games.

04/08/2024

Congratulations Marlene!

The ProRodeo Hall of Fame is honored to announce the Class of 2024 for their 45th Anniversary Sapphire year!

Read more >>> https://bit.ly/4apLk5r

04/04/2024

Marlene's 5 plait reins IN STOCK $48.50
Regular and with Knots
Message to Order!

04/04/2024

Gorgeous custom Marlene McRae saddle by Circle Y
California tooling, teepee conchos, light finish, rawhide cantle and horn, custom larger stirrups, cinch plates and hide seat. 😍

03/29/2024

Check out this beautifully tooled 14” Marlene McRae saddle!
$2900
Printed suede seat bicycle seat, saddle strings, vintage stain, rough out fenders…

*Owner snap is missing off hoof pick holder*

In Arizona through the 10th of April. Please contact owner (780) 940-9772

03/29/2024

14.5” Marlene Special Effx by Cactus $2500
What a gorgeous saddle! This saddle has had very little use and been well taken care of.
Beautiful tooling and elephant pop stitch seat. Comes with matching breastcollar. Has the ring for tie strings if you want to add them.
If you custom ordered this set would be at least $3600.
Contact seller at (719) 251-2252
Located in OK

03/29/2024

🛑 “All Around” Marlene McRae Saddle 14.5” seat $2000 ‼️

These are almost impossible to find and it’s in very good condition.

Contact owner directly (719) 251-2252 Located in Ok

03/14/2024

For all Saddle and tack orders please direct message, email at [email protected] or call 719-351-3082.

02/26/2024

Knotted Reins are back in stock!

Marlene McRae Special Effx Saddles

02/23/2024

♥️Marlene McRae 🛢️🛢️🛢️barrel saddle 🐎
14” Special Effx with 5” pencil roll cantle with rawhide wrap. Rough out fenders and hard seat. Accented with feather tooling, antique dots, turquoise center conchos and latigo ties. These saddles have approximately 1yr build time. $3600 plus shipping

12/23/2023

Merry Christmas and wishes for a Happy New Year