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Slippery when wet??

Advantages: Much cheaper than leather.
Disadvantages: Only available in black.

As you already know I have horses and to ride a horse, a saddle is an essential item. I know it is possible to ride without and I sometimes do to improve my balance, but really it is an important piece of kit. The saddle needs to fit the horse and hors ...

spottydog2 28.09.2006 · Read full review
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Wintec 2000 - Not a Saddle For Every Horse

Advantages: Light weight, easy care, comfortable seat, easy change gullets, looks good
Disadvantages: A bit slippy on my low-withered pony, hard to fit to her shape

Wintec saddles are made by Bates Australia, founded in 1934. They originally produced synthetic saddles for racing, but over the years this has evolved into a wide range of saddles for all sorts of disciplines. The saddle I bought was a Wintec 2000 Al ...

sunnyfox 17.09.2003 · Read full review
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no more saddle soap!!

Advantages: no saddle soap needed to clean
Disadvantages: none

Having owned 2 wintec saddles, I can't emphasise enough the greatest factor of all - not having to use saddle soap!!! With any style or model of wintec all you have to do to clean them is to just wash them over with the hose pipe!!! The first model ...

SecretFormula 05.10.2000 · Read full review
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Throw away the saddle soap!

Advantages: Easy to care for
Disadvantages: Did not find any

Benefits of a Wintec: Flexibility - Saddle width can be changed whenever necessary Durability - Tough and strong Care - No leather care necessary Wet Weather - Does not get slippery so is safer for rider Value - Maintains value. I bought a Wint ...

catshark88 15.05.2007 · Read full review
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Is plastic the new leather?

Advantages: Light, changable gullet, relitavely cheap
Disadvantages: slippage, expensive gullets

...After buying many cheap-ish leather saddles for my ever shape changing horse I decided to treat him to a Wintec 500 saddle. Being 31, Pegasus has quite high withers but as hes a quite chunky horse, narrow saddles get in the way of his shoulders and sit to ...

claremash 07.09.2006 · Read full review
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