Saddle pads, tack and accessories made by Crest Ridge
Crest Ridge Saddlery makes saddle pads, tack and a range of accessories that compliment your Crest Ridge saddle.
Saddle pads are on this page. For everything else, click on the links below to open the appropriate page of our on-line store.
Breast Collars, Cruppers & Breeching Cinches Headstalls Reins Stirrups Saddle Bags & Everything else
Available leather colors are shown to the right. Each piece of leather is unique and color variations will sometimes occur.
Crest Ridge 100% natural wool contoured saddle pads
You can go to the ordering page by clicking on the size and color of pad you desire. Our saddle pads are offered with black or show brown wear leathers which you select on the ordering page.
Saddle pads are extremely important and useful for ensuring a proper fitting saddle for your horse and mule. Saddle pads can also provide significant protection for your horse's back. Crest Ridge Saddlery is committed to providing only the highest quality saddle pad. Over the years I have said this to many of you… “the best protection for your horse back is a 100% Wool Saddle Pad with a channel down the spine to provide additional clearance, vent the heat and preventing sore backs and spine rubs.”
The Crest Ridge Saddle Pad is a premium saddle pad designed for use with a single horse over time. Have you ever seen a hatter clean and reshape a black felt cowboy hat? He does it with steam. When we place a well fitted saddle on your horse’s back, a 100% wool felt pad, and use that same pad on that same horse with the same saddle within 4 or 5 rides the horses’ body heat starts to mold that pad to a perfect fit. If there is a place that is a bit tight, or if your horse is a bit asymmetrical, within a few rides this pad molds itself to a perfect shape. If you have a horse that is out of condition and you know that he will change shape as you put the miles on him, Crest Ridge Saddle Pads will change with him. The felt is shaped the same steam that the hatter uses, only this time the steam machine is your horse. Cheaper wool felt pads on the market are made of needled felt which pad cannot compress.
Crest Ridge Saddle Pads are offered in 1/2" (gray only), 3/4" and 1" thicknesses. All our saddle pads are 27.5" long (front to back along the spine) and 30.5 inches wide (not including the wear leathers). We offer each pad in grey (natural) and black. The black pads are a bit more expensive to account for the extra step of dying the wool.