Bates Elevation DS Plus Saddle provides a supportive deeper seat (DS) for greater security and achieves unprecedented close contact, perfect balance and stability for the rider. The seat is shaped to maintain breadth behind you ensuring comfortable landings, while thinning down where your leg drops on to the horse, so that the transition is ultra narrow and seamless. This high performance model features the added performance advantage of double-lined leather, renowned for its ultra soft and grippy characteristics, increasing rider feel and comfort.
An anatomically shaped tree enables greater comfort and room for your horse’s shoulder, while retaining a close contact feel for the rider. It reduces the occurrence of lifting at the back, which is often accepted with jumping saddles.
Your horse will show a marked improvement in their freedom of movement, as world leading performance systems the Easy Change Fit Solution and Cair Cushion System maximise your horse’s comfort and freedom of movement. Your horse will enjoy unsurpassed adaptability for an optimal fit, even weight distribution, a fluid cushioning and the ultimate impact absorption for total comfort.
Select models feature soft milled, double-lined leather on the exterior of the saddle, renowned for its ultra-soft and grippy characteristics, ensuring immediate rider comfort, security and reducing any ‘breaking in’ time traditionally associated with new saddles.
Models featuring double-lined leather often offer additional features such as a recessed stirrup channel for the ultimate in close contact, wear patches for added durability and key innovations in rider comfort and adjustability such as an Adjustable Ergonomic Stirrup Bar. Included features will vary by model.
Caring for Double-lined Leather
Double-lined saddles will require regular dressing to prevent moisture loss and to protect the leather, particularly in high areas of wear. Treated in this manner, your new saddle will achieve the traditional, rich patina of aged, worked leather and you can expect years of excellent service from your saddle.
Leather is a natural product and as such any marks, scars or colour variations within the leather are not a fault and add to the individual character of your Bates saddle.
Proper care is crucial to maximising the performance of your Bates saddle as its life is reliant on maintaining a certain level of moisture in the leather. Your saddle should be regularly cleaned, using glycerin saddle soap and a damp cloth or sponge to remove dirt, which may otherwise scratch the surface. Cleaning should always be followed with a rich, wax-based dressing, such as Bates Leather Balsam. We do not recommend the use of oil on your saddle.
PRIOR to riding in your new saddle, it is recommended that you liberally dress your saddle with Bates Leather Balsam, allowing it to soak in overnight. The overnight process ensures maximum
penetration into the leather, helping to seal in the moisture and protect your saddle. Bates Leather Cream can also be used to replenish and rejuvenate the moisture content in your saddle,
however a leather balsam penetrates deeper into the leather and offers a surface barrier, protecting against wear, water and sweat.
Apply your leather balsam or cream heavily in high wear areas, such as the top of the saddle flap where the stirrup leathers will rub. You may apply your dressing to all areas of your saddle including the padded inserts and girth straps. Treated in this manner, you will achieve the traditional, rich patina of aged worked leather and can expect years of excellent service from your saddle.
Leather care products:
- Bates Leather Balsam
- Bates Leather Cream
Adjustable Flexibloc System, Deep seat, Double-lined leather, Drop panel point, Ergonomic stirrup bars, Moulded knee inserts, Quilted panel points, Recessed stirrup channel, Short triple girth points.
High performance features
The innovations in Bates saddles are engineered to bring out the best in you and your horse for a unique competitive advantage in highly specialised saddles for every discipline. The world-leading innovations in Bates Saddles will make a profound difference to your horse’s comfort and performance. Under the finest quality leather, riders will feel the power of innovation in a Bates saddle. Experience instantaneous comfort, balance and seamless contact with your horse.
Quality testing at Bates Saddles far exceeds industry standards with stringent quality controls placed on each saddle that leaves the factory. Saddles are picked at random and subjected to a series of intensive tests on durability and workmanship. No expense is spared on evaluating how the saddles perform, employing external expertise in the areas of physics and engineering to conduct independent testing. The Bates Saddles trademark is an assurance of unsurpassed quality, innovation and the radically different performance each rider can expect. Only when the saddles pass our stringent quality controls are they deemed worthy of the Bates name.
6.5 kg [14.3 lbs]
*All weights are approximate and may vary by size and included options. These should be used as a guide only.
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