DEMO - Bates Isabell Icon Saddle

DEMO Saddle Exclusive - SAVE UP TO 40% OFF

Specially purchased saddles from Bates & Wintec considered demonstration saddles. These saddles are considered ''like new'' condition and we 100% guarantee your satisfaction, but be aware, these prices are only available on this collection of very limited demo saddles. It is a great opportunity to purchase a discounted price not available anywhere else. Some of reasons they are flagged as demonstration saddles include: older style no longer available, models have been improved on current line, used as a clinician or office demo, saddles have been updated with better leather, or has a few imperfections that in no way effects the performance.

Total elegance meets high performance in an iconic dressage saddle that is state of the art. The Bates Isabell Icon stands alone in freeing your horses full scope of movement and conveying your aids clearly. Strengthening your natural position and enhancing your intuitive connection, through saddle innovation and career experience. Your journey starts here.

Features:

• Bates Isabell Icon seat: has been perfected. 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.
• Luxe Leather is more than luxury. When it comes to luxury and the ultimate riding feel in the seat, there is no comparison to Luxe Leather, simply the finest calf-leather in the world. You will immediately notice the soft elasticity, exceptional grip, beautiful depth of color and strength, all of which make it the ultimate in comfort and prestige.
• Movable overgirth: Stability redefined for dressage. Wrapping the saddle flaps around your horse, the movable overgirth delivers unrestricted feel of your horses 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/billets for perfect presentation.
• Adjustable Ergonomic Stirrup Bar: Strength and control starts with perfect balance. 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.
• Adjustable Flexibloc system: subtle and effective support. Delivering 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.
• Refined Elegance: A work of art for a classical presentation. A showpiece in any stable, the elegant detailing celebrates Isabell Werths journey to become an icon of our sport. Simple and understated for a classically neat presentation, befitting the glamor of dressage with every luxury for horse and rider.
• Adjustable Y-Girthing system. Achieving an equal distribution of pressure along the length of the saddle tree delivers tremendous stability. When adjusted for an individual horse, this girthing system results in an incredible reduction in white noise for your horse and accentuates clear communication between you and your horse. A new streamlined adjuster fitting removes any lumps for perfect seamless contact.
• Bates SynergyPanel: the ultimate for close contact dressage performance. Exclusive to Bates Saddles. Ultra-fine and low profile, this panel sculpts away from your horses shoulder and transitions contact seamlessly and gradually on to your horses body, freeing their shoulder and achieving optimal space around the wither. The connection between you and your horse is accentuated through channelling your leg with seamless contact to let your horse feel your aids as they have never before. Your horse will instantly respond to the soft cushioning of the CAIR Cushion System, which lets them extend, lift and round to their fullest potential.
• HART: the biggest competitive advantage. The greatest gift for any horse is an elite saddle that allows them to move freely, to their fullest potential, and that can continue to be adapted as they develop, grow and change throughout the levels. You will know you are protecting your horses back through your partnership with the kind of comfort only possible through HART.

  Rider Benefits: 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. Sitting centrally in the saddle you feel close to your horse, able to sit deeper with exceptional stability to move with the swing of your horse. Isabell Werth

  Horse Benefits: 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. I love to see the freedom in my horses shoulder, to feel in their expression they are comfortable and supple. The adjustability of my saddle together with CAIR has kept so many of my horses so comfortable over so many years. Isabell Werth

  Isabell Werths successes have made her an icon of our sport with a medal tally that is unlikely to ever be rivaled. Her saddle is one of her proudest achievements. Many dressage riders have shared a personal connection with her saddle renowned for offering an instant improvement to rider position and confidence. For Isabell, her saddle is her communicator with her horse, a second skin that must deliver connection, rider balance and horse comfort.