Crest Ridge Saddle Pads and Blankets

Crest Ridge Saddlery offers a complete line of the very best saddle pads that money can buy. Our top-of-the-line offering are saddle pads custom-made to our specifications by 5 Star Equine Products, makers of the justifiably famous 5 Star 100% wool contoured saddle pad. We also offer Trail Boz lift and contour neoprene saddle pads made for the avid riders with a moderate budget. We also offer a premium wool blanket with a tight weave and high quality wool that will outlast the commonly found cheap saddle blankets many times over.

Saddle pads are extremely important and useful for ensuring a proper fitting saddle for your gaited horse and mule.  Saddle pads can also provide significant protection for your horse's back.

Crest Ridge 5 Star 100% natural wool contoured saddle pads

 

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”

Crest Ridge Saddlery has partnered the experts of the 5 Star to form the best saddle fitting teams in the Nation. Our joint effort produces what we feel is the best saddle pad on the market today.   The Crest Ridge/5-Star Saddle Pad is a premium saddle pad designed for use with a single gaited horse over time.  These custom made pads feature a cut-out to provide additional clearance over the spine and are only available from Crest Ridge Saddlery.

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/5 Star 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.

The Crest Ridge/5-Star Saddle Pad is durable, designed to last for 2,000 hours of hard riding.  If you are riding 5-hours a week, this pad will last over 7 years.  The Crest Ridge/5-Star Saddle Pad is likely the last pad you will have to purchase for your gaited horse or mule.
The Crest Ridge/5-Star pad is available in 3/4 and 1 inch thickness’.	Prices start at $189
Buy a 3/4" Crest Ridge 5 Star saddle pad	Buy a 1" Crest Ridge 5 Star saddle pad

Crest Ridge lift saddle pads

We start our lift pads with a waffle weave neoprene lining for the comfort your horses back both of which are have excellent heat dispersal qualities. In the center of the pad where the bars of your saddle rest we added a ¼ to ½ inch dense rubber depending on which pad you decide to Buy Now. Then we covered this with a soft supple leather for added durability. For the top cover we added a vented polyester material on which your saddle rests is of the same-vented polyester in which professional basketball team uniforms are constructed of to remove moisture while the pad is not in use. These 3 materials sewn and bound together will make your horse comfortable, keep your saddle lining clean and dry, and the pad will last ages as long as it is kept in a well-ventilated space.

Lift pads are a good choice for horses with a clearance issue over the horses spine. You should not choose a 1/2 inch pad when a 1/4 would be sufficient because the higher you lift a saddle off of a horses back the more unstable it becomes. I suggest you put your fingers under the cantle between the saddle and the horse and push down on the seat back. You need at the very least one finger distance between the horses spine and the seat of the saddle and then choose the amount of lift needed accordingly.  Value priced at $79

Buy a 1/4" lift pad

Buy a 1/2" lift pad

Crest Ridge Contour Pads and Wool Blankets

The Crest Ridge contoured pad and wool blanket are excellent choices for horses that do not have any issue with clearance over the spine or asymmetrical backs.  They provide a close fitting secure platform for a well fitted saddle.

Made from the same materials as our lift pads, but without the lift.  $59	Crest Ridge wool blankets feature a tighter weave and better quality wool than your average saddle blanket providing superior durability.  $20
Contoured Pads are Out of Stock	Buy a wool blanket

For sanitary reasons, your Crest Ridge Saddle pad is the only item that we sell that are non returnable for any reason because of the nature of the item. We would never want to be responsible for the spread of ringworm or other fungus borne skin diseases.

Customer Comments on Saddle Pads.

I posted two white towel tests (see “Checking Saddle Fit” for information on the white towel test) and had many people responded with thoughts. Thank you so much for them. I also want to send out a big thank you to Deb for her suggestions. I did purchase a cut out saddle pad (Crest Ridge 5-Star Pads) as she suggested and WOW what a different in my horse's movements. I did not have problems with behavior with the saddle fit but after the new pad realized I did have movement issues. My guy moves so much nicer with the new pad. He is freer in the shoulder and his gaits are smoother and easier to ride. I was so happy when I finished my ride yesterday. This has really made me realize that saddle and saddle pad fit are sooo important, and that you can suffer from poor movement and stiffness just with the wrong pad. Thank you again Deb for your insight and help in getting my guy feeling more conformable in his saddle and make his movements feel so much better to me and I am sure feeling so much more conformable for him. Jane :0) (June 26, 2009)

Quick Links to Crest Ridge Saddlery Products and Services

Saddle Fitting -- Why Saddle Fit Matters -- Saddle Fitting Mules -- Treeless and Flex Tree Saddles

How to Measure --  Checking Saddle Fit

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