KEY TO THE SOLUTION!

By and by, we became convinced that the saddle trees used for the so-called English saddles nowadays are the crux of the problem. No matter which kind of padding they have, those narrow mini-trees offer no satisfactory pressure distribution for sensitive horses or horses with delicate backs. From this realization sprung the idea of developing and manufacturing a different saddle tree. Back then, no one would have imagined that another five years would be spent on development, prototypes, material considerations, and test series. But the guidelines for our saddles were set already then:

O Orthopedically formed
M Medically safe
E Ergonomically designed
G Grand construction
A Anatomically reasonable

We did not want to settle for just broadening the spine channel here and there, for just interspersing new padding or a new fork.

 

One of many prototypes, this one being milled out of wood.


 
1 Cut back pommel
  2 Cut back fork to give more elbowroom to the shoulder
  3 Extremely low fork
  4 Highly broadened saddle tree waist
  5 Panel was greatly enlarged in the back area
  6 Saddle tree tapers off smoothly, which is crucial to horses with problems in the area of thorax,
spine, and loin.
  7 Mutable seat that places the horseman in the balance point.

Our intension was to tackle the problem at its roots. And after all, the tree is the beginning of a saddle. It is the crux of all following constructions, the “chassis” so to say. Already in the beginning of the “Anatomic” project we guessed that there will be never be such a thing as the perfect saddle tree in three or four sizes and different channel widths. Horses are too diverse, even within one breed. Thus, we already developed several basic models in the phase of the prototypes, e.g. for horses with high or low withers, narrow or broad ones, with even or rather “drooping” backs.

An entire year was spent on shaping adequate trees for the different horse types with the goal to ideally distribute the occurring forces and masses in order to offer a solution that is comfortable for the horse as well as ergonomically perfected.