Rhinegold Saddle

[steve]

Hi,

I'm a bit of a label snob!! (At least I admit it!), but Kieffer and Albion are out of my budget at the moment and my horse will change shape as he's a not yet backed rising 4yr old. Does anyone have a Rhinegold saddle or have any experience of one? I will probably go for a wintec adjustable saddle to start with, but the rhinegolds are going for £95 on ebay brand new!!

I realise you get what you pay for in this world, but are they really that bad? Or am I just a terrible snob?

Steve

[mags]

Not seen them but I would worry about the quality of a saddle at 95 brand new

[horsey123]

if your horse is chaging shape and is unbacked have you looked at treeless saddles to let the muscle grow and chage i the backing stages
they are also very light for younge horses

and i too have to agree with mags comment

[steve]

I guess the thing with Rhinegold is they just copy other products so they have no design or R&D costs - they rely on the bigger brands to do that for them! But I do suspect they use inferior materials.

[steve]

To be honest horsey 123 I've never seen a treeless saddle - stupid question but do they need to be fitted?!!!

[morwenstowstud]

My daughter has had a Rhinegold for two years. She's used it on assorted ponies over the time she's had it. She's washed it in a bucket of water, left it out overnight by mistake, got it mud covered many times, and it's always stayed in excellent shape. It's just gone off with a pony to a new home where I'm sure it will have many years use left still. I would buy another one.