Bates Saddles

Bates Leather Balsam is a rich wax dressing that is specially formulated to maintain the proper level of moisture and protection for your Bates leather saddles. All Bates Saddles are hand selected, grade one, full grain, pure aniline dyed European leather. Proper care extends the life of your leather, maximizes the performance of your saddle and allows the leather to achieve the traditional rich patina of aged worked leather.

Product Details:

• Wax based
• Moisturizes and protects
• Extends life of leather
• Apply after cleaning
• Do not use on suede
• Size: 90 grams

Bates does not recommend the use of oil on any of their saddles.

Bates All Purpose+ Saddle offers a soft and grippy double lined leather, an adjustable ergonomic stirrup bar for effortless alignment, and a girthing system that provides even distribution from the front and back of the saddle for increased comfort and stability. The Bates All Purpose+ offers comfort for both horse and rider, as well as instant security and balance in a luxurious seat making it ideal for lessons, flatwork, light jumping and pleasure riding.

Product Details:

• Adjustable Easy-Change Fit Solution gullet system
• Cair cushion system
• Adjustable Ergonomic Stirrup Bars
• Adjustable Flexibloc System
• Double-lined leather
• Drop panel point
• Molded knee inserts
• Rear Velcro for Flexibloc system
• Recessed stirrup channel
• Short triple girth points with point strap and balance fitting option
• Weight: approximately 15.8 lbs

Bates All Purpose+ Saddle with Luxe Leather offers exceptional performance and strength in a luxurious ultra-soft leather with a unique level of grip and rich in color, an adjustable ergonomic stirrup bar for effortless alignment, and a girthing system that provides even distribution from the front and back of the saddle for increased comfort and stability. The Bates All Purpose+ offers comfort for both horse and rider, as well as instant security and balance in a luxurious seat making it ideal for lessons, flatwork, light jumping and pleasure riding.

Product Details:

• Adjustable Easy-Change Fit Solution gullet system
• Cair cushion system
• Adjustable Ergonomic Stirrup Bars
• Adjustable Flexibloc System
• Double-lined leather
• Drop panel point
• Molded knee inserts
• Rear Velcro for Flexibloc system
• Recessed stirrup channel
• Short triple girth points with point strap and balance fitting option
• Luxe leather is hand selected from the finest calf-skin leather and offers exceptional performance, strength and grip
• Weight: approximately 15.8 lbs

Bates Elevation DS+ Jump Saddle offers a deeper seat for security and is shaped to encourage a correct and centered seating position while ensuring comfortable landings and features grippy yet soft double lined leather, an anotomically shaped tree for greater room and comfort for the horse while retaining a close contact feel.

Product Details:

• Adjustable Tree featuring the Easy-Change fit solution
• Cair Cushion system
• Adjustable Flexibloc System
• Double-lined leather
• Drop panel point
• Ergonomic stirrup bars
• Moulded knee inserts
• Quilted panel points
• Recessed stirrup channel
• Short triple girth points
• Recommended for Eventers, Hunter-Jumper
• Weighs approximately 14.3 lbs

Bates Elevation+ Jump Saddle is shaped to encourage a correct and centered seating position while ensuring comfortable landings and features grippy yet soft double lined leather, an anotomically shaped tree for greater room and comfort for the horse while retaining a close contact feel.

Product Details:

• Adjustable Tree featuring the Easy-Change fit solution
• Cair Cushion system
• Adjustable Flexibloc System
• Double-lined leather
• Drop panel point
• Ergonomic stirrup bars
• Moulded knee inserts
• Quilted panel points
• Recessed stirrup channel
• Short triple girth points
• Recommended for Eventers, Hunter-Jumper
• Weight approximately 14.3 lbs

Bates Isabell Dressage Saddle features an anatomically shaped deep seat with comfort seat technology, a seamless, ultra narrow transition from your seat through the length of your leg providing the ultimate connection with your horse while positioning you in a central and balanced position for effortless alignment in the saddle. The adjustable ergonomic stirrup bar offers enhanced riding position and comfort, while the Adjustable Y-Grithing system provides even pull from the front to the rear of the saddle. The Isabell's thoughtful design was developed in consultation with Dressage Champion Isabell Werth and provides excellent contact and comfort for both horse and rider.

Product Details:

• Adjustable Tree featuring the Easy-Change fit solution
• Luxe Leather upgrade
• Adjustable Ergonomic Stirrup Bars
• Adjustable Flexibloc System
• Adjustable Y-Girthing
• Double-lined leather
• Overgirth
• Quilted panel points
• Recessed stirrup channel
• Recommended for Dressage
• Weight approximately 14.8 lbs

Luxe Leather is hand-selected from the finest calf-skin leather in the world and meticulously cared for throughout its specialised tanning process. This will guarantee exceptional performance in strength, richness of colour, ultra-soft feel and level of grip to meet the unique demands of an equestrian saddle. Leather is a natural product and as such any marks, scars or colour variations within the Luxe Leather are not a fault and add to the individual character of your new Bates Luxe Leather saddle. Your new saddle will feel exceptionally grippy, luxurious and succulent from day one, providing you with the ultimate in comfort and prestige.

Note: Bates Luxe Leather saddles are shipped direct from the manufacturer, please allow 6 - 8 weeks for delivery. To view the line of Bates saddles available in Luxe leather visit our showroom location

Bates Elevation DS+ Jump Saddle with Luxe Leather offers a deeper seat for security and is shaped to encourage a correct and centered seating position while ensuring comfortable landings and features grippy yet soft double lined leather, an anotomically shaped tree for greater room and comfort for the horse while retaining a close contact feel.

Product Details:

• Adjustable Tree featuring the Easy-Change fit solution
• Cair Cushion system
• Adjustable Flexibloc System
• Luxe leather upgrade
• Double-lined leather
• Drop panel point
• Ergonomic stirrup bars
• Moulded knee inserts
• Quilted panel points
• Recessed stirrup channel
• Short triple girth points
• Recommended for Eventers, Hunter-Jumper
• Weighs approximately 14.3 lbs

Bates Isabell Dressage Saddle features an anatomically shaped deep seat with comfort seat technology, a seamless, ultra narrow transition from your seat through the length of your leg providing the ultimate connection with your horse while positioning you in a central and balanced position for effortless alignment in the saddle. The adjustable ergonomic stirrup bar offers enhanced riding position and comfort, while the Adjustable Y-Girthing system provides even pull from the front to the rear of the saddle. The Isabell's thoughtful design was developed in consultation with Dressage Champion Isabell Werth and provides excellent contact and comfort for both horse and rider

Product Details:

• Adjustable Tree featuring the Easy-Change fit solution
• Adjustable Ergonomic Stirrup Bars
• Adjustable Flexibloc System
• Adjustable Y-Girthing
• Double-lined leather
• Overgirth
• Quilted panel points
• Recessed stirrup channel
• Recommended for Dressage
• Weight approximately 14.8 lbs

Bates Elevation+ Jump Saddle with Luxe Leather offers a deeper seat for security and is shaped to encourage a correct and centered seating position while ensuring comfortable landings and features grippy yet soft double lined leather, an anotomically shaped tree for greater room and comfort for the horse while retaining a close contact feel.

Product Details:

• Adjustable Tree featuring the Easy-Change fit solution
• Cair Cushion system
• Adjustable Flexibloc System
• Luxe leather upgrade
• Double-lined leather
• Drop panel point
• Ergonomic stirrup bars
• Moulded knee inserts
• Quilted panel points
• Recessed stirrup channel
• Short triple girth points
• Recommended for Eventers, Hunter-Jumper
• Weight approximately 14.3 lbs

Bates Webber Stirrup Leathers are constructed in luxurious leather with a durable webbing core for strength and durablility. These unique leathers are designed without buckiles to reduce bulk and provide closer contact with your horse.

Product Details:

• Sizes: Average (1/70 cm/28" compares to 54-56 inch regular leather) or Long (2/80 cm/32" compares to a 60-64 inch regular leather)
• Easy to use and durable
• Nylon center and soft synthetic outer covering.
• Less bulk between you and your horse with a hook
• adjustment at the stirrup end

Bates Stirrup Leathers are made with high quality, soft leather and are suitable for use with any english saddle. The riveted buckle design reduces the thickness of the leather under the rider's leg and the webbing core ensures that the leathers will not stretch and cause uneveness.

Product Details:

• Black 58"
• Brown 54"

Bates Kimberly Outback Saddle in heritage leather offers the ultimate in comfort for you and your horse. Very secure design for trail riding, breaking in horses or even endurance riding. This stock saddle features lateral flex to work with your horses muscular movement and naturally oiled and waxed Heritage Leather that ensures optimum suppleness and enhanced rider grip. A favorite of many mounted patrol officers!

Product Details:

• Easy change gullet fit solution
• Cair cushion system
• Adjustable Y-Girthing
• Poley knee pads
• Sculpted supportive seat
• Heritage Leather which upholds the traditional European practices of natural oil and wax tanning.
• Maximizes your horse's comfort and freedom of movement.
• Unsurpassed adaptability for an optimal fit, even weight distribution and fluid cushioning for total comfort.
• Engineered for all-day comfort
• Sizing:
  • Medium: equates approximately 17 -17.5" English Seat Size
  • Large: equates approximately 17.5 - 18" English Seat Size
• Weight: approximately 8.5 kg (18.7 lbs)

Bates Advanta Eventing Saddle is engineered for the perfect connection between horse and rider, providing an ultra-sensitive feel of the horse for unparalleled close contact and effortless balance for the rider putting you right in the sweet spot so you immediately feel "at home" in the saddle. This revolutionary saddle is designed exclusively with the eventer in mind allowing you to push your boundaries and free your horse to move naturally and distinctively with greater endurance and quicker recovery, yet ideal for the hunter jumper who desires an ultra-close contact between horse and rider.

Product Details:

• Elastiflex tree
• Easy Change Fit Solution Adjustable Gullet system allows you to easily customize fit for your horse's comfort level.
• Sweetspot Comfort seat technology allows the rider to find ultra close contact providing the rider with a seamless transition from the seat through the leg for perfect alignment from take off to landing.
• Wither freedom
• Forward cut Mono flap provides ultra-sensitive connection unlike any other saddle
• SynergyPanel : Low profile, stable and close with the ultimate protective cushioning and shock absorption of air for pressure reduction and improved blood flow to the muscles.
• CAIR cushion system constantly adapts to the horse's working muscles allowing your weight to be evenly distributed across the entire length of the cushion, virtually eliminating pressure points.
• Adjustable ergonomic stirrup bar reduces bulk under the riders' leg.
• Recessed stirrup channel
• FlexiContourbloc stablilizes without restriction for revolutionary leg support.
• Luxe leather provides the perfect riding surface with a luxurious feel yet tactile grip

• Soft micro-fleece
• Embroidered with Bates logo
• Pocket for each stirrup iron
• Prevents damage to the leather
• One size

Bates Stock Stirrup Leathers

Stirrup leathers are designed complement the Bates Kimberley Endurance Saddles featuring the customary 1.25 inches wide leathers. These amazingly durable top quality stock leathers offer superior webbing core for additional strength. Ideal for endurance, trail or mounted patrol.

Product Details:

• Requires irons that have 1.25 inch eye
• Webbing core for added strength
• Traditional leather sleeve means that you ride with the buckle near the iron for closer contact and added comfort
• Size: 147cm (58 inches)
• 1.25 inches wide
• Available in Classic Black or Havana Brown