Adult Horse Saddles

Video Transcript

"Shopping for an adult saddle can be just a little bit easier than for youth. As an adult we typically stay near the same size for a long time during our riding career. We still want to look though at the body size of an adult as we start to decide which size seat. I have an adult saddle of a fifteen inch variety, a sixteen on up to a seventeen. The seventeen inch saddle will carry an average size man, but I have seen some men who have in fact gone into the eighteen inch variety which I don't keep. But a seventeen inch saddle you can see is very generous to the seat, the stir fenders are going to be long enough and allow the rider to have a long stretch in their leg, if they are in fact a tall person. This is a sixteen inch saddle, built a little differently. But it has a heavy fender, and it's going to hold a rider in a secure position. And be for a person probably about my size, kind of your average woman, a little bit larger woman might find that comfortable as well. When we get to the petite size person, a very small framed lady or as we talked about a teenage rider, a fifteen inch saddle is going to be their ticket. It's going to hold them securely, the stirrups will go up and down to their degree, you can even get fenders and stirrups for a tall, lean person that would be custom made to go with that fifteen inch seat. So when you're looking for a saddle, and you getting in it, you want it to feel comfortable, appeal to you in the way it sits your body, keeps your seat bone secure, and also ample room so that you're not feeling crowded in that seat."