A couple of horses at the barn are going to be leased out to younger kids starting in the next couple of weeks. There are four or five roughout training saddles in the tack room, including my own, and I would like to get some kind of name tag for it so it is isn’t mistaken for one of the barn owned roughout saddles. How does everybody “mark” their western saddles? Thinking something like this, but curious what everybody else does.
You want a western style cantle plate that goes on the top of the cantle, like this:
http://www.montanasilversmiths.com/cp24-cantle-plate-1-3-8-x-6-1-4-inches
They usually go on top of the cantle but can go on the back also. They are bigger then the English versions so will be more easy to see. I’d get a saddle cover with maybe your initials on it also.
Can you put your saddle on a rack away from the lesson saddles, maybe put a sign or label on the rack itself saying do no use for lessons or something like that?
I have the round tag from Boomerang Tags on all my saddles, more for identification out on the trail than anything else. But, you could put it somewhere obvious on your saddle to discourage someone from assuming it is a lesson saddle.
Haltertags.com makes brass but also can do silver color tags, and can customize the size. Their engraving has an elegant look and isn’t shallow chicken scratches like most of the laser engravers. Deep, black, ez to read.
I have seen regular dog tags hung from the left D on the saddle, where the breast collar attaches, with the name of the horse the saddle belongs to.
I think that in a common tack room, private and school saddle racks should have their own sections, to protect private saddles from others bothering, much less using them.
That would be in addition to name tags or other identification on the saddles themselves.
If we are talking western saddles, mine have my name tooled on it, or a silver name plate, on the Cheyenne roll cantle.
If your saddle has a straight back, then add the name/name plate to the back of it.
I think the nameplate is fine, but in this situation, I think a better deterrent to kids picking up your saddle by mistake is the saddle cover js recommended.
