Breast Collars, Breeching and Cruppers made by Crest Ridge Saddlery

Crest Ridge Saddlery offers an assortment of high quality breast collars, breeching and cruppers especially designed for your gaited horse or mule. These accessories are all designed to help hold your saddle in its proper position, regardless of the build of your horse, the rider or terrain. All of our gaited horse and mule tack is made from chrome-tanned, drum-dyed leather with stainless steel hardware. 

• Chrome-tanning uses chromium sulfate and other salts of chromium to create a strong yet supple leather. It is more supple and pliable than vegetable-tanned leather. Our premium chrome-tanned leather does not discolor or lose shape as drastically in water as the more common vegetable or alum tanned leathers.

• Drum-dying ensures a deep, long-lasting, uniform color to the leather.  We offer black, brown and show brown drum-dyed leathers.  Some styles are also available in mahogany.

• Our high-grade stainless steel hardware will not rust and does not break, even with hard use. All of our collars and breeching feature scissors snaps for quick and one-handed attachment.

4-Point All-Terrain Breast Collar	Classic Y Breast Collar	Breeching

Breast Collars & Pulling Collars

Breast collars and pulling collars are designed to stop the saddle from slipping rearwards while riding.  Saddles can slip towards the rear while going through hilly terrain, when girths loosen or by the action of the rider's seat in the saddle.  Our Crest Ridge Saddlery designed breast collars and pulling collars keep the saddle in its proper position by preventing the saddle from slipping rearward.

4-point All-Terrain Breast Collar		Crest Ridge Saddlery designed this 4 point all terrain gaited horse breast collar.  The unique method of 4 even points for attachment prevents interference, allowing the horse free range of motion while securing the saddle to enable you to traverse even the roughest terrain with confidence.	$40.50	Buy Now
Y-Breast Collar		Crest Ridge Saddlery's version of the classic Y-Breast Collar features premium grade heavy leather that is hand stitched and tooled with stainless steel hardware.  The wide leather breast straps provide excellent weight distribution and comfort for your horse or mule while preventing your saddle from slipping rearward.  Our Y-Breast Collar is available in black and show brown leather. This breast collar attaches easily with scissor snaps and is completely adjustable.  The lower strap is riveted for extra strength.	$72.00	Buy Now
Pulling Collar		This Pulling Breast Collar is made of heavy soft and  supple harness leather and lined with latigo leather. Pulling collars are typically used on  mules.  All stress pointed are reinforced with copper rivets not split rivets. Our pulling collar attaches directly on both sides of the swell on your saddle and to the girth underneath your mule.	$125.00	Buy Now
Custom-Matched Breast Collar		Custom-matched breast collars are available when bought with any of our saddles regularly priced at $1108 or higher.  Our Amish craftsmen will make your custom-matched breast collar from the same leather as your saddle to ensure matching color and tooling.  Custom-matched accessories are only available when bought at the same time as a qualifying saddle.	$72.00	Buy Now

Instructions for using our 4-Point All-Terrain Breast Collar

Have a helper when you attach your 4-Point All-Terrain collar the first time. Hold the collar level and even across the horse's chest. Attach the 2 upper tugs to the rings under your swell on the front of the saddle and adjust the height so that it hangs just under the horse's esophagus. Then attach the lower tugs to the cinch ring and adjust those so they are even. Once you do this step you never have to do it again. When you finish riding, you simply unsnap the left 2 scissor snaps and hang the collar on the off side of your saddle.

Breeching and Cruppers

Breeching and cruppers are designed to stop the saddle from slipping forward while riding.  Saddles can slip forwards rear while going through hilly terrain, when girths loosen or by the rider's seat in the saddle. Mutton withered and round barreled horses and mules often benefit from breeching or a crupper.

Breeching		Our breeching is designed to fit most mules and horses. Our new breeching is hand-made by Amish master craftsmen using premium leathers, reinforced stitching, rivets at stress points and stainless steel hardware.	$96.00	Buy Now
Crupper		Cruppers for horses and mules. Available in show brown only.	$30.00	Buy Now
Custom Matched Breeching		Custom breeching is available when ordered with any of our saddles regularly priced at $1108 or higher.  Our Amish craftsmen will make your custom breeching from the same leather as your saddle to ensure matching color and tooling.  Custom matched accessories are only available when bought at the same time as a qualifying saddle.	$138.00	Buy Now

We recommend regular use of Bickmore's Bick-4 leather conditioner for cleaning and conditioning your leather tack.

Customer Comments about our Breast Collars and Breeching

I just wanted to send a quick email to thank you for your great customer service and product.  I ordered a crupper from you for my Paso Fino last fall.  I haven't had a single problem with the saddle since I got the crupper, where before, the saddle would slide all over and give my horse sores.  Thank you for the fabulous, user-friendly, quality product!  Teisha  Trail Rider in Utah  (April 2010)

We have a wonderful 14 year old Arab that we have had since he was 3.  He is an awesome horse that can and will do anything you ask of him.  We were getting very worried that we would have to retire him or make him a kids horse due to his back problems.  We thought that we had tried every saddle and pad arrangement and was frankly ready to give up.  The horse that could go thirty miles in a day now got sore after just 10 or so.

Then....we took a vacation to Tall Pine Resort and luckily met Deb.

She gave our prized horse a look over and gave us a heavy duty breast collar to try for the day.  That did it!  Deb fixed our problems with a simple breast collar to hold the saddle in the right place for him.

Thanks a million!    Heather Ganske    (December, 2008)