Paul Jones saddles

[Kylara]

Thoughts? Tried a horse yesterday in a PJ saddle and was very comfy and not super deep in the seat even though a dressage saddle.

I'm looking for a lighterweight dressage saddle (small person!) with shorter flaps and without a seriously huge block that holds your leg completely in place, something a bit more support if you need it rather than "your leg goes here and only here" type thing.

I really like albion but they are soooo heavy. This PJ saddle was very lightweight.

Does anyone have a PJ saddle who can give me thoughts on the quality, fit, ride etc?

 

[Follysmum]

My pony has a PJ saddle. Good value IMO. Has been mainly used for hacking and XC. My friend jumps in it and has remarked how nice it is. Had it about 5 years and still looks really good. Never had any issues with fit, ponies back always been fine when Mctimoney lady has been.

 

[_EVS_]

I bought a PJ jump saddle a few weeks ago. So far so good! Fitted my boy really well where I have struggled with other saddles. I use a WOW for hacking and schooling and its so goddam heavy! :-(

 

[Kylara]

Heavy saddles are horrific. I'm tiny and hate tacking stuff up in heavy saddles, hard enough to lug onto a 14hh horse, let alone an albion on a 16.3hh!

So lightweight is up there in the list of must haves for a saddle!

Glad they seem to have good reviews. I hadn't heard of them before.

 

[Kylara]

What's the fit like? Pretty flexible or a bit limited to the horses they'll fit? I'm leaning towards one of these, but their website is not massively helpful!

 

[Follysmum]

I had previously got a well known saddler fitter out to fit the pony, saddle fitter said mmmm pony looks like a difficult fit , not sure about what we will have. I got in touch with lady who measured her up , she could not see any problems, had a made to measure from PJ .

 

[brighteyes]

I think they are OK.

 

[sbloom]

The websites of these workshops are limited as everything pretty much is made to measure. They're definitely not top end saddles, fitting depends on how good the fitter is. I only get to see those that aren't working but the handful I've seen over the years haven't had flat enough trees for the flat backs they were on.

 

[Rudolph's Red Nose]

What size are you looking for as I have a friend who is selling a shorter flap PJ dressage saddle 😊

 

[Kylara]

No idea as don't yet have horse! Just having viewed a horse with one and finding it comfy I wanted some opinions on them. Seat size I'm flexible with whatever really, I fit into kids saddles fine, so!

Whatever I get needs to have short flaps for my tiny legs! and not way an absolute tonne (looking at you albion!)

 

[Rudolph's Red Nose]

Arrh ok, sorry misread your initial post - friend who is selling her's loves it, very comfy but just slightly too big for her horse - good luck in your horse search 😊