I have an Erreplus saddle here on trial, and it fits my really nicely, which is a huge struggle with my looong femur. I think it might work for my mare with some adjustment to the flocking, but would like to know that there would be an option to widen it a bit if needed. I did try getting in touch with the company about this but never heard back. I’m not sure if they’re similar enough to Prestige or other saddles that are adjusted with a heat press. I would say back to the drawing board, but I’m a year into this saddle search and have been unsuccessful with two attempts at putting me in a new saddle that will fit my leg following in-person consultation. I am able to work with local fitters for hands-on flocking adjustments, it’s just the contingency for widening the tree a bit that is worrying me.
Mine is shipping out to have the tree widened tomorrow! Sagmae is doing mine (I did buy it from them). They don’t really service my area but were basically the only US rep when I bought mine a number of years ago (I did reach out to the person who does my area now but got no response from her). Where are you located? I have contact info for a few Erreplus reps, not just my local one.
Our local independent fitter is qualified by the Society of Master Saddlers and she’s who suggested I have it widened so she did a tracing for me that I’m sending out with it based on the instructions from Sagmae.
I believe it is similar to the Prestige tree (the founder was the R&D director at Prestige for a long time) but I’m unwilling to test the theory with our local Prestige fitter because I don’t want to screw up my saddle by accident. Sagmae told me I’ll have it back before they head to Florida the second half of this month so I can report back on how the adjustment went in a couple of weeks.
Thanks so much for the info! I am in Idaho, so we don’t have a lot of options locally.
I was able to do a full ride today and my mare seemed to love it. None of the canter stickiness that we’ve been going another round on recently, and she felt much better in her canter half passes, and just going sideways in general, so I’m going to take a chance on keeping it.
Its the same as prestige and uses the same press 
Good to know! We used to have a Prestige rep come through a few times a year; not sure if they still do, but I’ll keep an ear out.
Patty Barnett in CT (East Crow Saddlery) has the press for the synthetic trees – Prestige, Kieffer, etc.
Just following up here - I did end up hearing back from the US Erreplus agent, Lou Traiforos. He was helpful and put me in touch with John Merriweather in case my saddle needs a tree adjustment. That was a relief, as I know some other companies are not very helpful to people who purchase their saddles on the used market.
I have to say, I’m very impressed with how my mare is working in this saddle. I have had my previous saddle fitted to her regularly, and always ask her chiro/bodyworker to let me know if they detect any saddle-related issues, and the answer has consistently been that she is fine. However, she tends towards being sticky, especially in canter, and was really going through a phase with it over the winter. She is going so much better in the Erreplus, and her rein-back has also gotten much more obedient, so I think she is just overall more comfortable. Hopefully the trend continues, but I think it might be the difference between getting stuck at 2nd and making it to 3rd this year!
I do know someone that sells Erreplus in the Midwest, that might be able to give more info on adjustments, but if you’ve already found a good source then it might be irrelevant. If you do want their info, just shoot me a PM.
I tried a few Erreplus saddles and I don’t mind them. I still favor Amerigo when it comes to Italian saddles. My issue with Erreplus, and also Prestige (which makes sense because they are related) is the 17" or 18" seat sizes. The 17" is usually too small or on the verge of being too small. Then I go up to 18" and there’s just a bit too much room. Which, isn’t always a huge problem. I’m just the princess and the pea when it comes to dressage saddles. I know they’re a “roomy” 17" but not always, and depends on the seat shape. I never thought a half inch mattered so much!
I really want to get back into an Italian saddle, and might end up with an Erreplus, even though I’m desperate for an Amerigo 
there just aren’t any reps around. I currently have a Mike Corcoran Master Saddle and I’ve grown to hate it 
So I’m glad to hear that Erreplus is also helpful to those in the used saddle market.
Have you tried Ann Forrest at Equestrian Imports? She’s great at virtual fitting, reps Amerigo, and has a bunch of used options on her website. I have a Master as well.
I have, but I wasn’t thrilled with the experience. No saddle to show for it. Just money spent on the fitting and shipping fees 
I don’t know if it’d be better if I spoke directly with her? We worked through a “middle person” that seems to handle comms for the company, perhaps.
Hoping there’s a decent market for the Master saddle since it’s a “smaller” name of sorts.
Oh darn. I spoke directly with her and she was very helpful to me at the time. I did spend a bunch of money on back and forth and didn’t get a saddle from her either but I was very pleased with the interaction otherwise. It turned out the Master was what fit that horse at the time. It just doesn’t fit the current one. And I’m not so sure about resale. 
You can see I posted awhile back about brands (for my next saddle) that have good resale- that’s why I was asking!
That makes sense. I’m usually very careful about resale, but I slipped up this time! I bought the saddle new for $5.5k at the end of August. I’ll be lucky if I get half of that back, I think. Which is whatever, and that’s on me.
I may try to get with Ann directly. There are 2 used saddles that may work, and I’m not opposed to going new if I have good trust in the fitter. I will say that her used inventory is often priced higher than others, but what she’s selling can probably be trusted a bit more (likely nothing sketchy, no broken trees, etc.). At this point, it it fits me and the horse, I don’t care.
Would you feel comfortable pming me? I have a couple of questions but don’t want to hog the thread.
It’s the Impulse model from 2022. I think it has been replaced by something else. I only saw one other Impulse for sale in all my searching.
They developed a US-specific line of saddles (or at least they’re selling them under different names than what they sell in the EU, I’m on my phone so unable to finagle my way to that side of their internet presence to confirm). I have the EM (Erreplus Monoflap, lol) and the E-Contact is the closest model available new in the US now but the EM is still available in Europe according to the Erreplus UK Instagram.
They made the change in 2022 or 2023, I believe. Their US footprint wasn’t very substantial previously (still isn’t, really, but it’s getting bigger) so that contributes to the lack of availability of the older models in the used market.
That makes sense. Mine is a 2022.
