Which saddle for workers?

[ilovebuckroox]

Which saddle would you recommend which i could use for workers aswell as flat.

I was looking at;
Ideal working hunter show cut 16
OR " - " 14

I would prefere it to be part suede or possibly full.

Thanks in advance!
To use on my 13.2 Sec C (see pic, he is chunckier than he looks on this pic!)

[FF]

I don't like the flydes, can't get comfy in them at all and they have no stirrup leather keeper which annoys me under my leg.

I have a Farrington working hunter and I also have a farrington event saddle for XC. The event saddle is gorgeous. I just use that most of the time as it's still quite straight cut.

[LucyHebditch]

I wouldn't go for the Samantha, i have that but wouldn't feel at all secure jumping in it, it is very straight cut.
Try Ideal saddles, they do some lovely WHP saddles, my friend has one for her C, which i have ridden in and it is seriously nice!
I'll see if i can find you the link

[bigears]

i have a santana and its fantastic that good 2 people have gone and bought them they liked riding in mine so much x

[LucyHebditch]

www.idealsaddle.com/catalogue/category/8
The top six are all very similar to what i am talking about, i think i have ridden in the Josephine, which i loved!

[ilovebuckroox]

Yes was looking at Ideal saddles, i just liked the look of the samantha!! Think i am leaning towards 'working hunter show cut 16' , 'working hunter show cut 14' and possibly 'working hunter 14'. what you think?

[LucyHebditch]

Very much like the 'working hunter show cut 16'

[tabbyx]

i've jumped 2ft in a fylde hayden with literally nothing in front of my knees, on a novice pony.
i have a matthew lawrence saddle on my 138cm show pony, i'd feel happy jumping big in that. it's similar to the samantha in appearance but has a bit more knee roll. my friend has jumped 3ft 3 in a samantha and does workers in it aswell.
just depends on what your comfortable with and how short in the stirrups you ride.

[ilovebuckroox]

Thanks for all advice!!

[whp94]

I have a ideal wh on my sec c, it's so comfy! Much better than the Samantha for jumping in, as it's slightly more forward cut. Hope this helps

[ilovebuckroox]

oooh! which one?

[m&mwhp]

i have the ideal working hunter 16 on papaaaa (connie) i love it. when i went to try him though, he had the ramsey one but it didnt come with him but that was very comfy
on ellie (welsh c) i just have a barnsby gp saddle, and it used to be comfy before i got too big! lol. i might see about getting a new saddle for her next year if im gonna keep her
but anyway, i used that for everything, and looked fine, but i would prefer to get a new one, which will probably be an ideal or fylde oohh btw, if you look on my fb pics, some of the ones of smellyyyyy ellie she has papa's saddle on... lol xx

[ilovebuckroox]

ahaa, the suede 16 or just leather?
+will look on your pics, the ones in her own little album?!

[m&mwhp]

just the leather oneeeee. yeahh sureeeeeee thinnngggg

[m&mwhp]

actually, most of the pics in that album are of her wearing his saddle lol. pic 14 and 15 are probably the best to look at x

[whp94]

Mines a leather one too! I prefer them with suede seat if I'm honest

[ilovebuckroox]

whp94; yeah, i prefere the suede! especially for showing but im not too fussy!!
m&mwhp; will look now!! ;D

[m&mwhp]

i might get the suede one for smells then i could take my pick! lol

[ilovebuckroox]

hahaha!! ;D nice idea

[bessieboo]

My daughter has the ideal whp saddle on her dartmoor and jumps the open classes quite happily and also does the flat classes. It's a lovely saddle.

[whp94]

ilovebuckroox : Yeah can't be too fussy lol! I will be doing flat and workers in my ideal

[ilovebuckroox]

*UPDATE* ->> I have found a possibility (and pretty cheap for brand new):
take a look? ->
www.fyldesaddleryltd.com/www.fyldesaddleryltd.coms/info.php?p=9&pno=0&pid=2711520&cat=235994&ack=9&search=&sought=
What do you think??
*whp94; ;D. which saddle is it?
*bessieboo; thanks for advice! everyone say's they're very comfy!

[whp94]

That's a nice one, I was going to get the show cut one for my forester but she's not being ridden atm! I'm not sure which cut mine is for my sec c as it's a second hand one because shes a baby, so I'm guessing it's just the bog standard wh cut. If you did want to go fylde I would choose either the Mick or ray, there very nice!! If my sec c does change shape etc then we will probably get one of them

[ilovebuckroox]

yea, well its the Ideal one but on the fylde website!!

[whp94]

Yeah I believe ideal make fyldes saddles for them hence why there's both fylde and ideal saddles on both websites, I could be totally wrong! lol

[ilovebuckroox]

yeah... ideal makes the saddles for peter, then he 'marks them with fylde' (haha, im not good at wording!!)

[whp94]

I get what you mean lol how old is your sec c?

[ilovebuckroox]

haha, thats good then! He's 14! how about yours?

[whp94]

Oh really! He doesn't look it! Mines 3, a very mature 3yo

[ilovebuckroox]

I know! although he's alread starting to get a high wither ect!! And aww bless! I've also got a 4yo sec C, but she's only 12.2!! (2nd pic in my signature) ;D