Just curious…if you have an Arabian and ride in one of these saddles…which gullet size fits your Arab the best?
It’s way more about their individual build, than a generic breed built. Some are very round and need more like hoop trees. Some are very A-framed.
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i do find most Arabians need a hoop tree, so aren’t well suited to WIntec trees/gullets. That said, my super wide mare did fit a Wintec Wide saddle quite well…with the XXW gullet.
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how wide is she? I’m not ‘there’ yet, but i’m working on training a very wide horse right now. He’s about 16h, big shoulder, wide flat back, not curvey at all. I’d say riding him is going to be like sitting on a sofa. He’s still learning to wear a halter, so i’m months away… but i don’t have a saddle on the whole farm that would fit him. Maybe i’ll try a Wintec Wide. Do they come synthetic or are they all leather? From Wintec’s website it’s hard to tell. The Wintec Pro Wide looks nice. I think i like it.
My Arab cross mare, who tends to be very wide during most of the year (she’s an air fern), goes very nicely in a regular Wintec (not the wide version) with the white (extra wide) gullet.
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wintecs are all fully synthetic. Bates is the leather line with some overlap in models.
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good to know. I like synthetic saddles.
My guy is very wide and we finally found a saddle that didn’t move and it was glorious. I could FEEL how good he felt with that saddle and it was how he went bareback. A Kent and Masters dressage saddle and we were often in one of the widest bars. We tried Bates, Lovatt and Ricketts and a few more first and they would all move forward onto his scapula.
Hope this helps.
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My polish Arabian is quite wide but he does well with the XW gullet in a Wintec Dressage saddle
