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I would buy this is if it were $300, maybe. $3000? Noooooo thank you.[/QUOTE]
Here you go!
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$300
[QUOTE=AmmyByNature;5913220]
Here you go!
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$300[/QUOTE]
I still have my pancake flat saddle, and a good x-acto knife… 
[QUOTE=meupatdoes;5913211]
Because the girth has to attach somewhere.[/QUOTE]
Ohhh quite right. This is what I get for blonde moments late at night.
[QUOTE=lily pony;5913270]
Ohhh quite right. This is what I get for blonde moments late at night.[/QUOTE]
Well who knows.
Maybe they’ll eventually make the $4,000 Butet Sit-In-The-Middle.
I wonder if any of the Big Eq trainers have this saddles in their barns?
[QUOTE=meupatdoes;5913296]
Well who knows.
Maybe they’ll eventually make the $4,000 Butet Sit-In-The-Middle.[/QUOTE]
My trainer’s friend, who used to teach when she was on vacation, used to have me do an exercise where I would have to ride without a girth. I never fell off, but now I’m wondering if maybe I was just being an idiot! I think we only hacked…
[QUOTE=AmmyByNature;5913342]
My trainer’s friend, who used to teach when she was on vacation, used to have me do an exercise where I would have to ride without a girth. I never fell off, but now I’m wondering if maybe I was just being an idiot! I think we only hacked…[/QUOTE]
Actually I know trainers who use that exercise to get their students more aware of their balance. I just wouldn’t pay $3000 for a special “no girth butet.”
In her youth, my mother used to do exhibition rides with no girth, and reins made out of thread.
Sadly, that was long before the days of the video camera.
I bet you’d need to buy a special $300 girth to go with this special $3000 saddle… lol
I’m glad I’m not the only person that thought this was ridiculous!
Actually, I just realized I already have a saddle similar to this one, following an unfortunate dog-chewing incident!
Luckily, it was an old saddle, but I was still pretty mad at the dogs. :lol:
Maybe it’s for people who can’t afford a whole Butet
I get it. It’s a cheapo (relatively speaking) Butet for beginners who can’t afford a whole one yet.
[QUOTE=Sukey1971;5914911]
I get it. It’s a cheapo (relatively speaking) Butet for beginners who can’t afford a whole one yet.[/QUOTE]
Ahaha, the Beval layaway plan!
First you buy the seat for $3,000, then when you have scratched together some more cash you can buy the flaps for an additional $2,000.
lmao. A friend posted this video to me over fb and I watched it first thing in the morning.
Beval - what are you thinking?!
I’m guessing its supposed to give you that real close contact feel…with 3 grand of leather seperating you from riding your horse bareback. For that price, I could pick up one fancy OTTTB. I think I’ll stick with my one show and practice(gasp!) saddle, thanks.
[QUOTE=ohsareee;5915555]
Beval - what are you thinking?![/QUOTE]
Dollars to donuts Bevals knows about this thread and is quietly rethinking this little invention.
The interwebz will help you do marketing research on the cheap…if you let it.
How about I just would like a new butet. Ill jump some huge jump in that saddle with no stirrups and no girth and let them video tape me if they GIVE me a real butet saddle :-P.
:lol:
That is EXACTLY what I thought! “Hmmm, maybe I can get my roof fixed if I put my old Prix de Nations, which is currently used purely as decoration on my “horsey things” display shelf, up on eBay for a couple thousand”… And here would be my headline: “Same Results as New Butet/Lower Price!”
I actually blogged about this: http://mylifeasarider.blogspot.com/2011/10/what-on-earth-or-horseback.html
I feel silly because I should have known that you good folks on COTH were already over here discussing it!
I wonder if any of the Big Eq trainers have this saddles in their barns?
Their ad copy states “Used by top trainers.” What I wanna know is if that’s true, then how come the only photo they seem to have is of a USED saddle, with “no others available” yet? Methinks they simply loaned this one-and-only Practice Saddle to a few of those “top trainers” and haven’t made any more until they find someone wiling to cough up the dough!
Well if you look at who beval, and who butet sponsors. I’d consider them top trainers. And if they gave me one for free, I guess I’d use it. It doesn’t look like a horrible idea. Just a horrible way to spend $3000 :-P.
OK Smarty pants!
We meant of course, cross the stirrups over, AFTER pulling the buckle down from the stirrup bar; then the left stirrup is crossed on top, so that, should remounting become necessary:lol: the left stirrup can be used more easily
George Morris was pushing this saddle in a clinic he just gave.
