The Barefoot 'Cheyenne' treeless saddle

News: The popular Barefoot Cheyenne is now available in a synthetic Drytech material for $775 unmounted. We are offering this model in three seat sizes (0,1,2) and in black colour. A new 'small kids Cheyenne'= size X0 is also available now for $395.00 in brown w. pink - they are super cute!

This new cheaper line of Cheyenne saddles are the same as the leather Cheyenne's in all aspects except for the upper material. Please email us for photo's, questions and orders.

The Cheyenne is an all purpose saddle and is suitable for dressage, endurance, CTR, pleasure, natural horsemanship, camp drafting and low level jumping. It looks like a cross between a halfbreed and a traditional Spanish dressage saddle.

The saddle is extremely safe and comfortable for the rider and the contact is simply superb.

This saddle does not restrict the horse's movement, so your horse will move with more freedom and ease. The Cheyenne can be adjusted and due to its flexibility will comfortably fit 99% of horses, pony's, mules and donkeys. You can ride all your horses in the one saddle and if you make some minimal adjustments even extremely differently shaped horses.

The pommel is made of fiberglass and the cantle insert is made of a flexible foam material to avoid any undue pressure under the cantle. The standard pommel insert can be replaced for either an xl or a soft pommel insert and we usually deliver the saddle with the correct pommel inserted for your convenience. Please note that the standard pommel is included in the price of the saddle while the xl or soft pommel are an additional extra.

The saddles are made of vegetable-cured environmentally friendly Nubuck leather. A therapeutic underlay is necessary at all times with all Barefoot saddles. For riders over 80kg we recommend the use of the Physio pad or double padding in one of our other saddlepads, see therapeutic saddle pads page.

The girth straps are specially reinforced with Nylon and have two long points. We recommend the use of an elasticized antigall girth with padding behind the buckles. For sensitive horses we recommend the use of a sheepskin girth sleeve around the girth. Many horses have scartissue under the girth area and apreciate the soft protection.

Please note: Any rigid girth and all unpadded buckles compromise your horse's welfare! imagine jogging in a corset while carrying a backpack with unpadded straps or buckles

NEW!!

The Cheyenne saddle now has a higher cantle made of a semi-elastic material, which is anatomically shaped, to horse and rider. This enhances the horse’s freedom of motion and encourages engagement of the hindquarters and vertical flexion of the back. For the rider this newly designed cantle provides a deep, softly cushioned and very secure seat.

Weight:

only 3-3.5 kg depending on the size.

Sizes:

Size XO for children 104 - slim 130cm, comes with wide pommel

Size 0 for children and small/ slim adults to size 6-9 in lady's jeans

Size 1 comparable to a 15" Western saddle, or 16.5”-17” English saddle

Size 2 comparable to a 16" or larger Western saddle, or 17.5"-18" English saddle

 

Colors:

Leather: Black or brown

Drytex Adults: Black

Drytex small kids Cheyenne: brown and pink

 

Only natural vegetable oils are used to dye the Barefoot saddles. Black is a "soft black" due to the soft nap of the nubuck leather. Brown is a "chocolate brown". Colors may vary from saddle to saddle. The underside of the saddles is now made from an off-white wool fleece, the honey colored fleece has been discontinued.

Technical details:

Nubuck leather, natural color, underside kodel fleece. Removable seat surface. Removable fibreglass forms for cantle and pommel. Five D-rings. Can be fitted with Barefoot fenders or English stirrup leathers.
Weight approx. 3 kg!

Price:

AU $1050 unmounted for the black and brown Cheyenne saddles

AU $775 for the new Drytech Barefoot Cheyenne available in black

AU $395 for the small child Cheyenne's in brown and pink

 

Warning: Please beware that a number of cheap inferior copies of the Cheyenne saddle are for sale in Australia now. Please do not assume that you can expect the same benefits from those saddles. We get phonecalls all the time from people who run into problems with those and have seen some shocking examples at tradeshows, so please beware!! That those saddles are sold without therapeutic saddle pad shows you that whoever sells them is not interested in the welfare of our horses but only in the money.