Why do I need my saddle for?
There are saddles specially designed for dressage, jumping, endurance, horseball and of course for a general purpose use.
We also need to know if we want an English, Western, Australian, Spanish or Portuguese Saddle or one of the local models as Menorquina saddle specially designed for keep the rider in the saddle when the horse stand in its hind legs.
All of this saddles have different ways to call the measure.
HORSE OR PONY. The first measure refers to the horse size, so we can find saddles for Pony or for Horses:
- Size Pony: Saddles for small horses or pony
- Size Horse: This size is usually suppress if you don't say anything, this is the saddles size supposed
CAPACITY OF THE SEAT. The second measure refers to the capacity of the seat
- English saddles: They are set in inches from 12" to 18". From 12" to 16" usually are for pony saddles and 17", 17.5" and 18" the most used sizes are 17.5" and 18"
- Kieffer saddles: Although this saddles are English saddles are set in his own sizes 0, 1 and 2 and its equivalence approximately is 16", 17" and 18"
- Spanish and Portuguese saddles: This saddles are not set in inches and the measure of the seat deppends of the model you choose. it's about 34-36 cm for Spanish saddles and 32-34 cm for Portuguese saddles. Some models like Riaño Sillero 32 have an smallest seat size, in this case 26 cm.
- Vaquera saddles: This saddle is typical from Spain and it has only two sizes: normal or mixta, diference between them is that mixta has 2 pommels (front and rear) and the capacity of the seat is smaller (36 cm) and in vaquera saddle the capacity is 44 cm.
Equivalence inches and centimeters in Saddle Measurements
12'' - 30,5 cms
13'' - 33 cms
14'' - 35,6 cms
15'' - 38,1 cms
16'' - 40,6 cms
17'' - 43,2 cms
18'' - 45,7 cms
When you order a saddle you can also specify the wide measure of your saddle, usually Normal (33 cm in the front head-38 cmin the back tree), Wide(37-39.5 cm) or Extra-wide(41cm-41cm)
