Saddle Fitting: Our Approach
The Goal: A comfortable, freely moving horse and a secure rider, in balance with their horse
A correctly fitting saddle is fundamental to creating a comfortable, freely moving horse and a secure rider, in balance with their horse. Achieving this goal is often fraught with difficulty.
In a perfect world, the saddle fitter visits the horse both before and after the saddle is made. However, this is not a perfect world! Not only is it not perfect, but it is also a different world: horses are kept for sport and pleasure all over the world and in places where a network of fitters of English saddles does not exist. Even within the UK, the skills you need to draw upon may not be local to you nor offer the level of expertise you require.
Saddle Fitting: Our Approach
The Goal: A comfortable, freely moving horse and a secure rider, in balance with their horse
A correctly fitting saddle is fundamental to creating a comfortable, freely moving horse and a secure rider, in balance with their horse. Achieving this goal is often fraught with difficulty.
In a perfect world, the saddle fitter visits the horse both before and after the saddle is made. However, this is not a perfect world! Not only is it not perfect, but it is also a different world: horses are kept for sport and pleasure all over the world and in places where a network of fitters of English saddles does not exist. Even within the UK, the skills you need to draw upon may not be local to you nor offer the level of expertise you require.
So Many Different Types of Horse,
All with Different Fitting Needs
Another key consideration is that in today’s world, so many different types of horse are enjoyed for riding or competing: Warmblood, Thoroughbred, Irish Sports Horse, Cob, Shire, Native, Andalusian, PRE, Spanish, Arab, Icelandic, Crossbreeds. The list can go on and on! All have different fitting needs, not only from breed to breed but within a breed. Muscular development and age of the horse are also key considerations.
The Rider!
Then we come to the rider! Well, we are all different, in our size and shape and preferences!
The solution is to combine modern communications with extensive experience, expertise and innovation in the art of saddle fitting and saddle manufacture.
We Specialise in Ideal Saddles & Ideal’s Designed to Order Service
Saddles Worldwide has teamed up with Ian Jenkin of Minster Saddlery. Together we specialise in Ideal Saddles and Ideal’s Designed to Order service to provide this solution. We will be the team who will look after you, help you arrive at your specification and be your link to Ideal.
We believe Ideal offer unrivalled choice, quality and flexibility at an excellent price. The range covers all disciplines, at all levels for all riders and is further enhanced by the Designed to Order service. Ideal is the one major UK manufacturer to specialise in “made to order”.
Profound Knowledge of the Ideal Range
& A Long Established, Excellent Working Relationship with Ideal
Ian excels in finding solutions to fitting problems and working with you to create your Ideal saddle. He has a profound knowledge of the Ideal range and a long established, excellent working relationship with Ideal and can draw on their expertise as and when necessary. That excellent working relationship is with Rob Lugsden, the owner of Ideal, chief designer of trees & saddles and the force behind this successful company. Not many fitters can talk with the designer and work with him to make the precise choice of tree and design!
We Know It Works!
We have developed a process of fitting saddles “remotely”. Wherever you are, we can fit your saddle for you! Please refer to How it Happens.
We know it works, having successfully supplied and fitted Ideal saddles and “Designed to Order” saddles for many years and for an amazing variety of types of horses not only in the UK but also in USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, France, Italy, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, The Netherlands, The Czech Republic, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Japan & Thailand….So far!
