Bates Isabell Icon Dressage Saddle – 16.5 inch – HART with Luxe Leather

Description

Total Elegance Meets High Performance State of the Art Dressage Saddle

The Bates Isabell Icon Dressage Saddle stands alone in freeing your horse’s full scope of movement and conveying your aids clearly. Strengthening your natural position and enhancing your intuitive connection, through saddle innovation and career experience.

Beneath elegant lines, the perfect dressage seat and leading saddle innovations can be tailored perfectly for your ridden biomechanics. When you optimize the saddle for your natural position, your balance and stability are enhanced, you ride in total synergy and your vision comes to life.

Engineered to adapt with your horse as they move through their body with total comfort, displaying strength and suppleness through their movements.

You will immediately notice your connection is accentuated and your horse more intrinsically responsive to your aids.

You will feel seated closer to your horse than ever before. An ultra-narrow waist that is low to your horse and just enough support to help you to move in harmony and deliver aids cleanly.

Wrapping the saddle flaps around your horse, the movable overgirth delivers unrestricted feel of your horse’s body and totally stabilizes the supple flap. With enhanced contact you will enjoy a stable lower leg that helps even the most demanding moves appear effortless. Locate the overgirth in the optimal position to lie centrally between your girth points for perfect presentation.

Select the optimal alignment in the saddle to enhance your position for perfect balance. When balance becomes effortless, your strength and precise delivery of aids are also amplified, for ultra-sensitive and responsive connection with your horse.

The Adjustable Flexibloc system delivers exceptional support for the your position discreetly below the saddle flap. Working in harmony with your position and seat for exceptional security below luxurious soft cushioning.

Exclusive to Bates Saddles. Ultra-fine and low profile, this panel sculpts away from your horse’s shoulder and transitions contact seamlessly and gradually on to your horse’s body, freeing their shoulder and achieving optimal space around the wither.

This saddle sells for $4765.00 new – offered at $2400 and now reduced to $2000

• HART System
• delivers exceptional freedom and perfect balance
• effortless alignment and unrivaled connection
• Manufactured in 2002
• 16.5 inch seat
• 17″ panel length (standard is 16:)
• Very good condition – only slight wear marks as expected for age- used for one year approximately
• Stitched billets
• Luxe leather – the finest calf leather
• Moveable over girth
• Adjustable Ergonomic stirrup bar
• Adjustable Flexibloc system – gives subtle and effective support
• Adjustable Y-girth
• Bates Synergy Panel

A HART badge is featured on Bates saddles to denote that the saddle has all of the features of HART (link: https://www.horseandridertechnology.com/) including the complete EASY-CHANGE Fit Solution, CAIR Cushion System along with the other features of HART. 

Trial Period:

You can purchase a saddle for the listed price at any time and the 5-day trial will begin when you receive your saddle. Or If you would like to trial a saddle, please contact us to have a credit card put on file.  We will charge you the shipping cost at that time and the saddle will be shipped to you. Local buyers are welcome to come to the farm and try the saddle(s) in person without purchasing the saddle.

• If you decide to keep the saddle at the end of the 5 day trial, please advise us of your decision and we will charge the purchase price of the saddle at that time.  Once the sales transaction has occurred, you are the owner of the saddle at that point. Saddles are not returnable for any reason after the five day trial.

• If you decide to return the saddle for any reason, please advise us of your decision and  you may send it back in the same condition as received insuring the saddle for its full value and provide us with the tracking information. You are responsible for return shipping and insurance costs.